Meteors Fire in the Sky :History Channel: 2/18/2007

Meteors Fire in the Sky :History Channel: 2/18/2007

If you collect Meteorites, watch meteor showers or wonder about comets and asteroids hitting the earth you need to watch on the History channel. Again it was on last night (my wife told me it was coming later that night ) but this time I saw it was not posted in the paper. So I waited . Once again I watched the whole thing and took notes this time and videotaping
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*Asteroid impact killing dinosaur debate
* Bob Haag the Meteorite Guy
* The info about the so called meteorite object in Mecca that Moslems revere (interesting the video showed the metal enclosure but not the meteorite object that the Moslems can peer into and touch. It is said to be an object from the days of the first man Adam and was once white but since has darkened to black with all the sins and touchings by Moslems)
* First known witnessed fall and recovery of meteorite in Eisensheim in France in 1492 (yes the date Columbus went to America). Fireball seen by 12 year old and recovered after it hit in field.
* Cape York huge meteorite transported from Greenland (340 tons) most of which is still at the Hayden Planetarium in NYC
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* Notes on Tunguska 1908
* Meteor crater in AZ (the impact turned the iron into iron gas that made the crater(
* The astronomical impact of planetary scientist Shoemaker on defining AZ crater as an impact crater, laying the foundation of other impact craters while searching in Germany for an impact that took place 15 million years ago
* finding the impact deposit of Iridium from Asteroid impact, significance and the Yucatan smoking gun crater where the asteroid hit that caused the demise of the dinosaurs
* Asteroid Eros photos, touchdown

and more
Well done, informative, great visuals, video and more
History, science and much more

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Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS: E.O.A.S. (Earth, Oceans, Atmosphere and Space) Blog -http://eoas-dreric1kansas.blogspot.com/

U.N. Urged to Take On Asteroid Threat

Oh great. With all that is going on in the world , I have to start worrying about this (now?)

Updated:2007-02-18 18:01:41
U.N. Urged to Take On Asteroid Threat

By Irene Klotz
Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Feb. 18) - An asteroid may come uncomfortably close to Earth in 2036 and the United Nations should assume responsibility for a space mission to deflect it, a group of astronauts, engineers and scientists said on Saturday

http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/un-urged-to-take-on-asteroid-threat/20070218175909990002?ncid=NWS00010000000001

asteroid may come uncomfortably close to Earth in 2036

Oh great. With all that is going on in the world , I have to start worrying about this.

Updated:2007-02-18 18:01:41
U.N. Urged to Take On Asteroid Threat

By Irene Klotz
Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO (Feb. 18) - An asteroid may come uncomfortably close to Earth in 2036 and the United Nations should assume responsibility for a space mission to deflect it, a group of astronauts, engineers and scientists said on Saturday

http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/un-urged-to-take-on-asteroid-threat/20070218175909990002?ncid=NWS00010000000001

2007 February 19 nova photo

A Nova is a star that exhausts its hydrogen fuel supply in its inner depths, begins to "feed on it self" creating higher density elements and finally exploded with the energy of millions of suns. This transformation actually created other elements, spews gas and more into outer space and sometimes destroys what is near by. It also creates a brilliant star like object many more times brighter then the magnitude of the star before. Here is the latest about a bright nova in the dawn sky which you can see now.

2007 February 19
Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
peaked at magnitude 3.9 on Friday the 16th.

AAVSO Special Notice #33
V1280 Scorpii = Nova Scorpii 2007
(February 7, 2007)
IAUC 8803 announces a new nova in Scorpius, independently discovered by Y. Nakamura and Y. Sakurai. The position is 16:57:40.91 -32:20:36.4 J2000 and the unfiltered magnitude is about 8.3 (T. Krajci, 2007-02-06). Spectra indicate blue color, no emission blueward of 540nm, but Halpha emission with P-Cyg profile. Report observations to the AAVSO as: 9999+99 V1280 Sco. Please be sure to indicate what you used for comparison stars. Thank you for your astronomical efforts and contributions! This special notice was compiled by: Arne A. Henden
http://www.aavso.org/publications/specialnotice/33.shtml

finder chart
http://skytonight.com/observing/home/Nova-Sco-2007.html
before dawn in scorpio


Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS: E.O.A.S. (Earth, Oceans, Atmosphere and Space) Blog -<http://eoas-dreric1kansas.blogspot.com/