FIRE IN THE SKY: "It Was Larger Than Any Meteor I Have Ever Seen" - Bright "Fireball" Seen In The Skies Over Tennessee And Alabama!

August 05, 2013 - UNITED STATES - There were reports of a bright fireball late on Sunday night and Monday in Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. A number of unconfirmed reports were posted on the American Meteor Society website. 

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"This was so very exciting for me. The colors were beautiful," wrote one user, Liz W., from Nashville, Tenn. 

Another person from Oakland, Tenn., wrote that the fireball was "low moving, passed behind cloud bank and glow could be seen through clouds." 

"The fire trail was a slender taper going from origin to point within the spacing of nine of the original diameter ... the [colors] were sharp:white core, moss green outside it, traces of blue.," wrote another. 

"It almost looked like this fireball was going to make impact," another wrote. 

The fireball sighting coincide with the Perseid meteor shower, which starts in mid-July to late August each year. It is unclear if the "fireballs" that people saw in the southeastern U.S. had to do with the Perseids. 

"It was larger than any meteor I have ever seen," wrote one person. 

On Twitter, at least one person said they heard a "loud boom." 

"Widespread reports tonight of bright fireball in the sky over TN, AL some hearing loud boom," wrote NewsBreaker. - TET.

RATTLE & HUM: Unexplained Phenomena - Researcher Declares That Mysterious Windsor Hum Is REAL?!

August 02, 2013 - CANADA - Colin Novak has hunch about where hum is originating, but won't reveal location until fall. 

A University of Windsor professor studying the Windsor Hum is convinced it's real. 

Colin Novak set up a state-of-the-art, $250,000 recording station in a woodlot in the western part of the Ontario city in February. It's a virtual ear, tuned to record the hum 24/7. 

Novak and a group of fellow scientists and researchers from the University of Windsor and London's University of Western Ontario received federal funding to study the mysterious noise. 

When the sound he's looking for rises above a certain level it's registered on the equipment and Novak gets an email. 

He said for the last month or so, his inbox has been full. 

Ottawa is funding research of the mysterious Windsor Hum.CBC News

"Some of the evenings, we may get 30 or 40 emails in a given night, mostly between midnight and about 3:30 a.m.," Novak said. 

That's enough to convince him the hum is real. 

"We're in a pretty remote area in the night time. There's some construction activity happening right now, but at night, there's not too much out here.... when we're getting levels as high as we are, there's definitely some activity," he said. 

The equipment's location hasn't been made public, but it's located in an area where the hum has been heard by Windsor residents. 

Novak said he has an idea where the sound is coming from, but he won't speculate until his research is finished. 

He and his partners will report their findings to the federal government by the end of the year. 

"And from that point forward, I think it may become more of a political, and an engineering problem," Novak said. 

People who live in the area have some theories of their own as to where the sound is originating. 

Archie Cormier is a Windsor resident who claims to hear the noise. 

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"It's on the American side, and it doesn't do it all the time," he said of the noise. "So, if they can pinpoint the problem, then maybe they could find a solution." 

Last year, a federal study suggested the hum may originate from the U.S. side of the Detroit River, in the general area of Zug Island, an area of concentrated steel production and manufacturing in River Rouge, Mich. 

The mayor of River Rouge said in 2011 that his city didn't have the funds to investigate the hum. 

The map below shows the location of Zug Island, southwest of Detroit. - CBC News.

Meteor alert! Possible meteor outburst Tuesday morning

Via earthsky.org, 10 June 2013 - Sky watchers in North and South America are well placed for seeing a possible outburst of meteors Tuesday morning, from a mysterious stream of cometary debris, known to have crossed paths with Earth only once before, in 1930.

Forecasters Peter Jenniskens (SETI Institute) and Esko Lyytinen (Helsinki, Finland) predict the return of the Gamma Delphinid meteor shower at around 0830 UT (04:30 am EDT) on June 11, 2013. The shower is expected to last no more than about 30 minutes to an hour, producing an unknown number of bright, fast meteors. A dark location will be best for observing the shower.

North and South America are well placed for viewing a possible outburst Gamma Delphind meteors on the morning of June 11, 2013.

The Gamma Delphinids have only been seen once before, in 1930. On June 11 of that year, members of the American Meteor Society reported observing a spate of meteor activity for a 30-minute period during the night. The shower came and went within minutes and was entirely unexpected. The moon was bright that night, nearly full, and yet even bright moonlight couldn’t obscure the shower; observers witnessed a large number of meteors in the moon’s glare. Tonight (June 10-11), the moon will be largely absent from the night sky, setting soon behind the sun in early evening, leaving the sky dark for meteor-watching.


Also tonight – June 10 from 10 p.m. to June 11 2 a.m. CDT (June 11 at 0300 to 0700 UTC) – Dr. Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office will take your questions about the Gamma Delphinids via live web chat. In addition to offering viewing tips about the elusive Gamma Delphinid shower, the chat will also include a live Ustream telescope view of the skies over Huntsville, Alabama. Click here to learn more about the Gamma Delphinid chat.

The Gamma Delphinid meteors radiant from the tiny constellation Delphinus the Dolphin (dolphin image is enlarged on this map, in contrast to real sky).

The comet that spawned this shower hasn’t been identified. It may be a long-period comet, with an orbit around the sun hundreds of years long. As comets sweep around the sun, they leave behind a thin trail of icy debris. When Earth encounters a stream of cometary debris in space, the debris enters our atmosphere and vaporizes due to friction with the air. We see the vaporizing, falling debris as meteors.

Bottom line: The mysterious Gamma Delphinus meteor shower – not seen since 1930 – might create a meteor outburst Tuesday morning, June 11, 2013. North and South America are well placed for viewing the possible meteor outburst before dawn.

FIRE IN THE SKY: COMET OF THE CENTURY - PHYSICIST JAMES M. MCCANNEY SUGGESTS THAT COMET ISON IS BEING ACCOMPANIED BY 7 OTHER OBJECTS, AND THAT NASA IS COVERING UP THE INFORMATION?!

January 22, 2013 - SPACE - This just in... it is too early to confirm, but some initial data suggests that Comet C/2012/S1 has at least one companion, and possibly up to seven. 

When something like this happens, one has to be very cautious, but after examining the data that I have seen, I would say that it appears to be real. Furthermore one of the possible companions appears to be at about two lunar distances (half a million miles) and has not formed a coma for some odd reason. If the object is orbiting the nucleus of the comet at that distance it implies that the nucleus of this comet is possibly as big or bigger than Earth. 

Also, with companions we will be able to directly calculate the mass, and therefore the size of the comet nucleus using standard astronomical methods. NASA tier two scientists have already put their foot in their mouths with an estimate based on some geeee whiz bad science. As I have said before one of the biggest open lies at NASA is concerning the size of comet nuclei, always minimizing them to almost nothing and [then] trying to promote their incorrect dirty snowball comet model. We know they can directly measure comet nuclei with radio telescopes so why all the bad science and opiniated estimates? 

Latest image of Comet ISON.

Normally no one would be able to contradict them because they hold the reigns of the radio telescopes, and who is to contradict them? But with companions, we use a simple astronomical formula and wala we have the mass of the nucleus and there is nothing NASA can do about that. With the recent interaction of this comet with Earth, while the comet was at the range of Jupiter's orbit, this would be the second indication that this is a whopper of a comet. 

NASA has been extremely active in damage control on this comet and just today issued a video clearly doing damage control. Why all the announcements, when the comet (according to NASA) will not even be visible until next November? Stay tuned folks this is getting reeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllll interesting. -Jim Mccanney [Edited for clarity].

Orginal post @ http://thecelestialconvergence.blogspot.hk/2013/01/fire-in-sky-comet-of-century-physicist.html