FIRE IN THE SKY: "I Have Never Seen Anything Like That Before" - Massive Flashing Fireball Seen Hurtling Across California Sky During Meteor Shower!

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: yellow;">November 07, 2013 - UNITED STATES </span></b>- Residents from around the Southland reported seeing a large light streak across the night sky Wednesday.<br /><br />Authorities tell CBS2 and KCAL9 that the object appeared to be a meteor.<br /><br />Many calls came into law enforcement agencies from Riverside, La Quinta and Rancho Mirage. CBS2 and KCAL9 also had reported sightings throughout Orange County.<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NqC4RfiId2o/UnvJQcLeCNI/AAAAAAABNXY/jRfM3EgEIUQ/s1600/socalfireball02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NqC4RfiId2o/UnvJQcLeCNI/AAAAAAABNXY/jRfM3EgEIUQ/s1600/socalfireball02.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Glowing: At one point the meteor glowed brighter, pictured. It was likely part of the South Taurids meteor <br />shower which is expected to be active for the first couple of weeks of November</td></tr></tbody></table><br />One viewer, named Myriam R., was driving west on the 118 Freeway when she said she saw a large fireball around 7:50 p.m.<br /><br />“I thought it was a plane,” she said, “but it was too fast.”<br /><br />A witness named Fabian sent CBS2/KCAL9 video from a security camera in his front yard in Sylmar.<br /><br />“At first I thought it might be fireworks,” he said. “It was kind of greenish, and it was large. And then it broke apart.”<br /><br />He added, “I’ve never seen anything like that before.”<br /><br />Other sightings were reported in Arizona, Utah and Las Vegas.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: lime;"><b>WATCH:</b></span> Massive fireball streaks across skies of Southern California. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="321" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/Y8UMg8BIJm8?showinfo=0&version=3" width="570"></iframe></div><br /><br />Scientists predicted a meteor shower that occurs every year about this time. But they also say we haven’t seen anything yet.<br /><br />So-called  Taurid meteor showers, which seem to come from the direction of the constellation Taurus, will reach their peak this year on Nov. 16 through the early morning of Nov. 17. Observers, aided by a full moon, will see 10 to 20 large fireballs every hour.<br /><br />The website PlanetSave.com says the 10-to-20 figure is actually fewer than we normally get in this time period,  but that it still promises to be “a pretty good show.”<br /><br />KCAL9′s Serene Branson spoke to Dr. Laura Danly, a curator at the Griffith Observatory.<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dzlfeSNGASw/UnvJa7o4HbI/AAAAAAABNXg/VBU3UEP5Dac/s1600/socalfireball.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dzlfeSNGASw/UnvJa7o4HbI/AAAAAAABNXg/VBU3UEP5Dac/s1600/socalfireball.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fireball: Hundreds of Californians reported seeing a massive fireball moving across the sky on Wednesday</td></tr></tbody></table><br />The fireballs are easily explained, Danly said.<br /><br />“They’re rocks in outer space. They’re chunks of asteroids, called meteroids,” Danly said. “They’re flying into the Earth’s atmosphere and they’re burning up. It’s kind of like when astronauts return to the Earth’s atmosphere and there is all that heat during re-entry. Same idea. These rocks are literally burning up.  And that’s what you’re seeing.”<br /><br />Phone lines at the Orange County Emergency Operations Center lit up. Dozens of OC residents were calling 911 when they saw a green light streak across the sky.<br /><br />The residents told dispatchers they saw a meteor.<br /><br />CBS2′s Stacey Butler spoke to witnesses in the OC.<br /><br />A Mission Viejo man was driving on the 73 Toll Road when he saw the light show.<br /><br />“I saw this big, greenish flash like, light up the sky,” Matthew Isaacs said. “It was headed pretty sideways from like, east to west. I thought, ‘Is that a firework?’ And then I realized, that couldn’t be that big. It’s just in the middle of nowhere in a totally dark area where there’s no houses or anything where anyone would shoot fireworks. I thought, ‘Man, it must have been a meteor.’”<br /><br />An astronomy professor at UC Irvine said the green light people saw was oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere.<br /><br />She said every day, there are about 800 meteors in the Earth’s atmosphere. Most of them don’t ever touch ground and many of them are 100 grams, like the size of a yogurt cup.<br /><br />Sightings were reported as far away as Texas. - <a href="http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/11/06/large-meteor-shower-lights-up-night-sky-across-the-west/"><span style="color: orange;"><b>CBS Los Angeles</b></span></a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>

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November 07, 2013 - UNITED STATES - Residents from around the Southland reported seeing a large light streak across the night sky Wednesday.Authorities tell CBS2 and KCAL9 that the object appeared to be a meteor.Many calls came into law enforcement a…

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FIRE IN THE SKY: NASA's All-Sky Cameras Captures 35 Fireballs, Including 26 Sporadics In The First 4 Days Of November!

<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b><b><span style="color: yellow;">November 06, 2013 - SPACE </span></b></b></span>- Every night, a network of <a href="http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/">NASA all-sky cameras</a> scans the skies above the United States for meteoritic fireballs. <br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5JDg6trhES0/UnpAmnJnQuI/AAAAAAABNLU/b1uI3Cl0BaE/s1600/fireball.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5JDg6trhES0/UnpAmnJnQuI/AAAAAAABNLU/b1uI3Cl0BaE/s1600/fireball.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><br />Automated software maintained by NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office calculates their orbits, velocity, penetration depth in Earth's atmosphere and many other characteristics.  <br /><br /><br />On Nov. 1, 2013, the network reported <span style="color: yellow;"><b>11</b></span> fireballs (9 sporadics, 2 Orionids).<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JyI_1RC9j7Q/Uno_OWjqHKI/AAAAAAABNK4/GJxyMG220-o/s1600/nov1fireballs.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JyI_1RC9j7Q/Uno_OWjqHKI/AAAAAAABNK4/GJxyMG220-o/s1600/nov1fireballs.gif" /></a></div><br /><br />On Nov. 2, 2013, the network reported <span style="color: yellow;"><b>12</b></span> fireballs (9 sporadics, 1 Orionid, 1 Northern Taurid, 1 omicron Eridanid).<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4EMpprB2oKc/Uno_UxGJOnI/AAAAAAABNLA/XNF6pD9CV4s/s1600/nov2fireballs.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4EMpprB2oKc/Uno_UxGJOnI/AAAAAAABNLA/XNF6pD9CV4s/s1600/nov2fireballs.gif" /></a></div><br /><br />On Nov. 4, 2013, the network reported <span style="color: yellow;">12</span> fireballs (8 sporadics, 3 Northern Taurids, 1 Orionid).<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5JNhTgU9SM8/Uno_aR9gWxI/AAAAAAABNLI/mSYS2JHwbL4/s1600/nov4fireballs.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5JNhTgU9SM8/Uno_aR9gWxI/AAAAAAABNLI/mSYS2JHwbL4/s1600/nov4fireballs.gif" /></a></div><br /><br />In these diagrams of the inner solar system, all of the fireball orbits intersect at a single point--Earth. The orbits are <a href="http://spaceweather.com/images2013/14oct13/colors.gif?PHPSESSID=iet7592adeg4tnefnkpulm1co2">color-coded</a> by velocity, from slow (red) to fast (blue). [<a href="http://spaceweather.com/images2013/04nov13/orbits.gif?PHPSESSID=iet7592adeg4tnefnkpulm1co2">Larger image</a>] [<a href="http://fireballs.ndc.nasa.gov/20131104.html">movies</a>]<br /><br /><br />- <a href="http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=05&month=11&year=2013"><span style="color: orange;"><b>Space Weather</b></span></a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>

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November 06, 2013 - SPACE - Every night, a network of NASA all-sky cameras scans the skies above the United States for meteoritic fireballs. Automated software …

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FIRE IN THE SKY: The Electric Universe - Comet LINEAR Suddenly And Unexpectedly Brightens With Outburst, Puzzling Astronomers?!

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: yellow;">November 05, 2013 - SPACE </span></b>- It’s swiftly becoming an “all comets, all the time” sort of observing season. The cyber-ink was barely dry on our “How to Spot <a href="http://www.universetoday.com/105582/how-to-see-this-seasons-other-comet-2pencke/" target="_blank">Comet 2P/Encke</a>” post this past Monday when we were alerted to <i>another</i> comet that is currently in the midst of a bright outburst.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZsyLMDVVX-k/Unk1rjbOE9I/AAAAAAABNDo/P1zCBqTzSbY/s1600/cometlinear01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZsyLMDVVX-k/Unk1rjbOE9I/AAAAAAABNDo/P1zCBqTzSbY/s1600/cometlinear01.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br />That comet is C/2012 X1 LINEAR. Discovered on December 8^th, 2012 by the ongoing Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (<a href="http://www.ll.mit.edu/mission/space/linear/ETS.html" target="_blank">LINEAR</a>) survey based in Socorro, New Mexico, <a href="http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2012X1/2012X1.html" target="_blank">Comet X1 LINEAR</a> was expected to peak out at about +12^th magnitude in early 2014.<span id="more-105678"></span><br /><br />That all changed early this week, when amateur observers began to report a swift change in brightness for the otherwise nondescript comet. Japanese observer Hidetaka Sato reported the comet at magnitude +8.5 on October 20^th, a full 5.5 magnitudes above its expected brightness of +14. Remember, the <a href="http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/stars/magnitudes.html" target="_blank">magnitude scale</a> is logarithmic, and the lower the number, the brighter the object. Also, 5 magnitudes represent an increase in brightness of 100-fold.<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y3RyadDro4w/Unk1y4rlQdI/AAAAAAABNDw/1N2R3WstmRU/s1600/cometlinear02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y3RyadDro4w/Unk1y4rlQdI/AAAAAAABNDw/1N2R3WstmRU/s1600/cometlinear02.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Comet C/2012 X1 LINEAR as imaged by Howes, Guido & Nicolini on Monday, October 21st. <br />(Credit: <a href="http://remanzacco.blogspot.it/2013/10/outburst-of-comet-c2012-x1-linear.html" target="_blank">remanzacco.blogspot</a>).<br /> </td></tr></tbody></table><br />Astronomers Nick Howes, Martino Nicolini and Ernesto Guido used the remote 0.5 metre iTelescope based in New Mexico on the morning of Monday, October 21^st to <a href="http://remanzacco.blogspot.it/2013/10/outburst-of-comet-c2012-x1-linear.html" target="_blank">confirm the outburst</a>. Other amateurs and professional instruments are just now getting a look at the “new and improved” Comet X1 LINEAR low in the dawn sky. Romanian amateur observer Maximilian Teodorescu noted on yesterday’s <a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/" target="_blank">Spaceweather</a> that the comet was not visible through his 4.5 inch refractor, though it was easy enough to image.<br /><br />Comet X1 LINEAR currently sits in the constellation Coma Berenices about mid-way between the stars Diadem, (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Comae_Berenices">Alpha Coma Berenices</a>) and Beta Coma Berenices. Shining at +8.5 magnitude, the coma is about 85” across with a 10” bright central region. This gives X1 LINEAR the appearance of an unresolved +8th magnitude globular cluster. In fact, a classic globular and a star party fave known as M3 lies about 8 degrees away at the junction of the constellations Canes Venatici, Boötes and Coma Berenices. M3 shines at +7th magnitude and will make a great contrast on the hunt for the comet. <br /><br /><br /><span style="color: lime;"><b>WATCH:</b></span> Comet C/2012 X1 (LINEAR) Outburst. <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="321" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/95wvUxUQqxo?showinfo=0&version=3" width="570"></iframe></div><br /><br /><br />Unfortunately, the window of time to search for the comet is currently short. From latitude 30 degrees north, the comet sits only 15 degrees about the northeast horizon 30 minutes before local sunrise. The situation is a bit better for observers farther to the north, and mid-November sees the comet 20 degrees above the horizon in the dawn sky. <br /><br />Comet X1 LINEAR is currently covering 40’ (2/3rds of a degree, or 1 1/3 the size of a Full Moon) a day, and will spend most of the month of November in the constellation Boötes. Keep in mind, X1 LINEAR is currently still on brightening trend “with a bullet.” Revised light curves now show it on track to reach magnitude +6 near perihelion early next year, but further brightening could still be in the cards for this one. Remember <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Holmes">Comet 17P/Holmes</a> a few years back? That one jumped from an uber-faint +17th magnitude to a naked eye brightness of +2.8 in less than 48 hours. <br /><br /><br /><span style="color: lime;"><b>WATCH:</b></span> Astrophysicist Wal Thornhill explains comets and cometary displays from an Electric Universe standpoint. <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="321" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/cRRzyI-yRko?showinfo=0&version=3" width="570"></iframe></div><br /><br /><br />Comet X1 LINEAR will reach a perihelion of 1.6 Astronomical Units (A.U.s) from the Sun on February 21st, 2014, and pass 1.6 A.U.s from the Earth around June 28th, 2014. The comet has a high inclination of 44.4° degrees relative to the ecliptic, and is on a respectable <a href="http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?ID=dK12X010;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb">1872 year orbit</a>. <br /><br />Here are some notable dates for the comet through the end of 2013:<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-v5J5P2v2P4U/Unk2OeTm3sI/AAAAAAABNEA/Y9EYxS54x8k/s1600/cometlinear03.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-v5J5P2v2P4U/Unk2OeTm3sI/AAAAAAABNEA/Y9EYxS54x8k/s1600/cometlinear03.png" /></a></div><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.universetoday.com/105678/comet-linear-suddenly-brightens-with-outburst-how-to-see-it/"><span style="color: orange;"><b>Universe Today</b></span></a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>

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November 05, 2013 - SPACE - It’s swiftly becoming an “all comets, all the time” sort of observing season. The cyber-ink was barely dry on our “How to Spot Comet 2P/Encke” post this past Monday when we were alerted to another comet that is currently i…

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FIRE IN THE SKY: Amazing Fireball Seen In The Skies Over Japan - October 30, 2013!

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: yellow;">November 05, 2013 - JAPAN </span></b>- This car driver was lucky to have is camera on... He indeed recorded a long fireball traveling across the sky over Japan.<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-42cgldQdplE/UnkwQvcV_wI/AAAAAAABNDQ/s65nvUS0t1g/s1600/japanfireball.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-42cgldQdplE/UnkwQvcV_wI/AAAAAAABNDQ/s65nvUS0t1g/s1600/japanfireball.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fireball seen across Japan – October 30 2013. Photo: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%C2%A9%20http://sonotaco.jp/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3116&sid=82158aeeb5e267abbce200972516d5fc"><span style="color: orange;"><b>Sonotaco</b></span></a>.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />This great meteor record was caught on Oct. 30, 2013 near Yokohama, in Japan. The picture above, was shot from Asahi Village in the Nagano Prefecture. <br /><br /><br /><span style="color: lime;"><b>WATCH:</b></span> Fireball over Japan.  <br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="321" src="https://www.youtube.com/v/yw-XjnnNUS8?showinfo=0&version=3" width="570"></iframe></div><br /><br /><br />- <a href="http://strangesounds.org/2013/11/amazing-fireball-caught-in-the-sky-of-japan-october-30-2013.html"><span style="color: orange;"><b>Strange Sounds</b></span></a>.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div>

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November 05, 2013 - JAPAN - This car driver was lucky to have is camera on... He indeed recorded a long fireball traveling across the sky over Japan.Fireball seen across Japan – October 30 2013. Photo: Sonotaco.This great meteor record was caught on …

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