Object 2015 VO105
> Object 2015 VO105 is of interest to NASA. Any and all information on > this target would be most appreciated. COD 568 CON D. J. Tholen OBS Y. Ramanjooloo, D. Hung MEA D. J. Tholen TEL 2.24-m University of Hawaii reflector NET PPMXL ACK 2015 VO105 K15VA5O C2015 11 17.23158323 38 […]
WT1190F – Play by Play BLOG
2015-11-13 : 10:21 PST. Splashdown was last night at 22:19 PST in SRI LANKA off coast of Matara. Was late evening on USA Westcoast Thursday. Please enjoy my Blog. This is a conversation between young post-grad scientist Subath Amaradasa of the “Near Earth Objects” Team at the University of Ruhuna, who is on ground with French […]
WT1190F Splashdown Friday
(Email from Cattle Point Dark Sky Urban Star Park volunteer William Smith) Dear Gerhard Drolshagen : On the Orbit of WT1190F (aka Snoopy) Does object get captured weeks before and go into earth’s orbit, slowly losing speed and descending? OR does it come shooting directly into the earth’s atmosphere – almost perpendicular to a tangent […]
Perseid Meteor Show 13 Aug 2015
The smoke and haze in Southeastern BC was a problem, but the Allsky Meteor Cam on the Cranbrook College of the Rockies roof still got a dozen bright Perseids or so on the 12-13th. Not 52 like Jeff Brower got on his AllSky meteor cam in Kelowna, by a long shot. This year was a […]
Video Spectroscopy for Meteor Classification
The Internation Meteor Organization is having their 2015 Conference in Mistelbach, Austria. from August 27 (Thursday evening) until August 30. At that meeting, Bill Ward from Glascow, UK will be presenting this following paper on Video Spectroscopy. He writes: One of the new observing programmes I’m working on is called “Towards a New Meteor Taxonomy” […]
Canal Flats Meteor Site Visited
On June 18 Peter Spaans and I visited the site where the Canal Flats fireball hit, on the Middle White River. Here are some photos of the terrain there. For a closer look, right click on the photo and open it in a new tab [Map_FireballArea_sm2.jpg] Map showing closeup of the strewn field ellipse. The […]
Canal Flats Meteor Expedition
LOCATION: Dr. Alan Hildebrand sent out the location marked on a map as an ellipse. From a topographical map NTS82J the centre of that ellipse is: 50° 21’N, 115° 13′ W (50.385, -115.217), and from GoogleMaps that is 50° 23′, 115° 13′ W, 550 ft down the hill. Lincoln Hanton and Alan Hildebrand assume the […]
New Central Meteor Camera Site
The BC Meteor network stations routinely upload our meteor videos to a central North American gathering site, where they are displayed for the public for about a month before being archived. Previously that was the New Mexico State University Allsky Camera site in Las Cruces, NM. (Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering) at http://skysentinel.nmsu.edu/allsky/clusters […]
Rocket Burns Up Over BC-Alberta Border Feb 24
Bright Slow-moving Disintegrating Object: 23 Feb 2015 at 10:56pm MST/9:56 PST Shown above is an animated GIF of the rocket stage disintegrating as it passed over the Cranbrook, BC meteor-cam site. The Kelowna BC meteor-cam site caught a glimpse of it as well. The video frames displayed are 2 seconds apart over a 33 second […]
More on the Canal Flats Fireball
Picture taken by Brett Abernethy from Johnson Lake near Banff, about 95 km North of Canal Flats (at 51.2138°N, -115.5013°W, 1,480m ). Looking due South, Brett took the photo on Dec 20, 2014 at 12:20am, while setup to photograph the Aurora Borealis. Brett says it fell slowly, flaring just like a welding arc, bright enough […]