February 2013 - Utah-Astronomy - mailman.xmission.com

They're Shooting at Chelyabinski
by jcarman6＠q.com 16 Feb '13

16 Feb '13

Crap - Brent, I had to write it down before I spelled the name of the city correctly for the post lol. YOU WOULD p ut it in the s ubject line. Your links are very interesting. Seems Russia is having all the fun (not counting the inju ries from falling glass yesterday) . Okay, I'm just throwing this out for a "hmmmmm" thought exercise. Are the three events connected? Russia gets a fireball, ISON passes closest approach and San Francisco reports a daytime fireball? Is it possible ISON has broken up and little pieces are ahead and behind and some are reaching earth? Sort of like a smaller Shoemaker/Levy 9? Of course, there is no way to prove it. But it just seems odd they all occur so close together. It made me go hmmmmmm.

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Local 10,000 stars in your browser.
by Daniel Holmes 16 Feb '13

16 Feb '13

You need to use Chrome or Firefox to have this work (needs WebGL), but it's really cool. Make sure you watch the opening movie to use it. http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars/ Dan -- Daniel Holmes, danielh(a)holmesonics.com "Laugh while you can, monkey boy!" -- Lord John Whorfin

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Does the animation run?
by Patrick Wiggins 16 Feb '13

16 Feb '13

Could someone check the link and see if the animation runs? I've heard from someone who can not get it to run. Thanks, patrick On 15 Feb 2013, at 20:23, Patrick Wiggins wrote: > Hi, > > Here's my first set of images of 2012 DA14 during its pass this evening. I thought they might be of interest to you and your viewers. > > 19 still images strung together into an animated GIF file. > > http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/2012DA14-01.gif > > Better ones should be coming in the next hour or so. Let me know if you'd like to see those and I'll email you the URLs as I post them. > > Not nearly as impressive as this morning's event in Russia but still neat to see something so big come so close. > > patrick > > --- > Patrick Wiggins > NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador to Utah > http://utahastro.info > paw(a)wirelessbeehive.com > 435.882.1209 >

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Meteor rumors
by Thomas Sevcik 16 Feb '13

16 Feb '13

OMG! Proof that some people are still living in the stone ages! Let's hope a bright meteor doesn't light up the skies over North Korea or else we'll all be nuked for sure. http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/15/16977509-meteor-sparks-rumors… Clear skies, especially for tomorrow night! Tom Sevcik

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Meteor over N Calif
by Joe Bauman 16 Feb '13

16 Feb '13

Tom, we'd better buy some of that apocalypse insurance from Siegfried! ------------------------------ On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 12:33 AM MST Thomas Sevcik wrote: > >The skies were active today! This one over the West coast of California. Reminds me of the one we had back in 2009 that many of us witnessed. >http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/16/16980332-fireball-over-north-… >Clear skies! >Tom Sevcik >_______________________________________________ >Utah-Astronomy mailing list >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > >Send messages to the list to >Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > >The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. > >To unsubscribe go to: >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy >Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".

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Meteor over N Calif
by Thomas Sevcik 16 Feb '13

16 Feb '13

The skies were active today! This one over the West coast of California. Reminds me of the one we had back in 2009 that many of us witnessed. http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/16/16980332-fireball-over-north-… Clear skies! Tom Sevcik

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] ISON tonight (16 FEB 2013 UT)
by Joe Bauman 15 Feb '13

15 Feb '13

Is it that splotch around 12:30? Impressive that you caught it. ------------------------------ On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 10:15 PM MST Patrick Wiggins wrote: >I think today's event in Russia was a bit more impressive than ISON this eveing. :) > >http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/C_2012_S1.2013FEB16.JPG > >patrick >_______________________________________________ >Utah-Astronomy mailing list >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > >Send messages to the list to >Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > >The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. > >To unsubscribe go to: >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy >Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".

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ISON tonight (16 FEB 2013 UT)
by Patrick Wiggins 15 Feb '13

15 Feb '13

I think today's event in Russia was a bit more impressive than ISON this eveing. :) http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/C_2012_S1.2013FEB16.JPG patrick

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Meteor Damage in Russia
by jcarman6＠q.com 15 Feb '13

15 Feb '13

Jared, thanks for the post for video. Interesting that a car mounted camera actually caught the entire event (police car??????) and some of the amatuer video was pretty interesting, except someone must tell anyone how to hold the camera and keep your dang fingers from covering the lens lol. Still impressive glass damage. Thought it was interesting that one guy was photographing the glass damage and everyone else was just walking along like there was nothing there. Re something was seen last night here in Utah. There was a report by a weatherman last night who showed pictures of it. It was a bright round "thing" that travelled toward and disappeared in the west. It did not leave a contrail or trail. Something was seen from Utah but it is not related to the Russia event - thanks Seth for your post. The scientists are finally weighing in and they say it was a "shallow" entry. Sounded like it passed through the atmosphere - so what punched through the ice in the lake? Inquiring minds what to know.

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2012 DA14: Bright and on schedule
by Patrick Wiggins 15 Feb '13

15 Feb '13

Not even dark yet and 2012 DA14 is already showing up in exposures as short as 1 second. And right where MPC is saying it should be. patrick

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