A Pair Of North Carolina Fireballs 23OCT2011

Email From:

Ken C.-Conway, NC:
Hi Jim,
Attached is a cropped image of a pair of meteors I shot this
evening here in North Carolina.  Shot from near the same
place as the fireball I sent you a couple weeks ago.
Is this very common?  They are in the same 30 second frame.
I don't know if they occurred simultaneously, or not since I
was in  the house when it was recorded.
Take care.     Thank you Ken! We are in multiple simultaneous meteor showers right now. While not very common to see two so close together, certainly not unheard of either. Thanks again! Very nice shot.

image courtesy of and (c) 2011-Ken Christison-Conway, NC

Multiple Ontario Canada Meteor Fireballs? 14JUL2011

Report To ELPALLSKY From A Reader In Ontario, Canada of 3 bright fireballs in a short amount of time.

If you observed this/these event(s), please submit a report to wxtx01@gmail.com with your observation. Thank you.

E-mail From:

P. Stowe-Ontario, Canada:

As I entered my backyard at approximately 9:45, I saw the first fireball of 3 that appeared over Burlington, Ontario, Canada within a 15 minute span.
All 3 fireballs were extremely bright red/orange and moved from West to North in the sky. From my standpoint, they were all quite large in comparison to any shooting stars that I have ever seen, and definitely moved much slower. I actually ran inside, got my camera and tried to film them, with very little success. I did get some very blurry shots, however, nothing that helped me to identify the objects.
If anyone knows what these fireballs are, I would love to hear from you.
I am always watching the sky hoping to see something amazing...and tonight it happened.
PMS :)

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UPDATE...Edmond OK Multiple Meteor Fireballs 14MAY2011 Source Revealed...

Emails From:

Ashley In Edmond OK:
HI,  My family and I and watched something in the sky last night at approx 9:30 pm last night. We saw a total of 7 fireballs. 2 first which seems like they paralleled each other then one single fireball. Then 3 more (which we have on video)  followed by one more. Each lasted approx 30-45 seconds and seemed to be orange- yellow color with a definite bright red on the top. I live in Edmond, Oklahoma and they falling/ flying from northeast to south west. I'm very interested in finding out what exactly these objects were. THANKS for any insight you can provide.

Ashley, seems we've discovered the source of your fireballs...

From Linda In Edmond OK:

Hi Ashley,

Do you live in Settlers Crossing or Southerly Farms neighborhoods?  I believe what you saw was my daughter's 14th birthday celebration launch of Chinese Sky Lanterns. 

Search YouTube for video and see if this is perhaps looks like what you saw. Date and time of sighting fit with our launch.  There were 11 of them, green, orange, pink purple, yellow and blue.

Linda   

thank you for coming forward Linda. Congrats to your daughter! Ashley, you can sleep now.

First Of 2 Tucson AZ Fireballs 14MAY2011

Emails From:

Steve, Lisa & Jenna G.-Tucson AZ:
Wanted to let you know Lisa, Jenna and myself witnessed the “Tucson Fireball” night before last. We were out walking at dusk and saw a bright flash out of the corner of our eyes.  In the northern sky at about 30 degrees we saw a meteor that lasted approximately 4 to 5 seconds and broke into two distinct pieces as the flames diminished.  The path seemed to be towards the southeast.  I would call it a brilliant white with a bit of blue to it.  We did not observe any sounds.  I opened my phone and recorded the time to be exactly 2000hrs mountain standard time.  A very punctual rock.   thank you Steve, Lisa and Jenna...fine example of a good fireball report!

Rosella T. In Tucson AZ:
Hi.  It was Saturday night around 8 pm on May 14, 2011 that I was out on my north facing balcony here in Tucson, AZ, when I saw a huge fireball.  It seemed to be very close and about the size of a compact car.  It was bright yellow and it seemed to have a red ring in between the ball and its long tail.  It was going horizontally from west to east and was not high up in the sky.  I saw it clearly because it was not going extremely fast.  It got lost behind trees and I turned to look at the moon and it seemed that this fireball was a lot closer in proximity than the moon.  What was this fireball?? 

From The Chatbox:

Jamie (guest): My husband and I both saw what looked like a meteor/fireball last night. We were in the center of the Tempe campus of ASU and were looking up and to the east. It looked so huge that my husband commented that it looked like it could have landed in Apache Junction. It was almost exactly at 8pm when we saw it.

Possible Meteors/Fireballs Southern/Central California 23APR2011...

One And Possibly Two Fireballs Over CA 23APR2011

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Increase In Green Meteor Fireball Events Expected As NEO's Approach This Weekend 11MAR2011

UPCOMING CLOSE APPROACHES TO EARTH

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/ 1 AU = ~150 million kilometers 1 LD = Lunar Distance = ~384,000 kilometers Object Name Close Approach Date Miss Distance (AU) Miss Distance (LD) Estimated Diameter* H (mag) Relative Velocity (km/s) (2000 EB14)  2011-Mar-11 0.1346 52.4 63 m - 140 m 23.1 12.76 (2010 JK1)  2011-Mar-11 0.1848 71.9 35 m - 78 m 24.4 4.67 (2011 EU20)  2011-Mar-11 0.0042 1.6 9.5 m - 21 m 27.2 9.33 (2005 EY169)  2011-Mar-11 0.0727 28.3 100 m - 230 m 22.1 12.39 (2011 EE41)  2011-Mar-11 0.1158 45.1 36 m - 82 m 24.3 6.50 (2011 EM11)  2011-Mar-12 0.0670 26.1 33 m - 74 m 24.5 6.55 (2007 CT26)  2011-Mar-12 0.1810 70.5 57 m - 130 m 23.4 8.41 (2011 ES4)  2011-Mar-13 0.0287 11.2 20 m - 44 m 25.7 6.99