11 October 2010

Meteor/Meteorite News 10.10.10 10OCT2010

Asteroid P/2010 A2 Collision

"Astronomers report that a small asteroid located in the inner asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter took a major hit early last year. Previously rendered only in artists' conceptions, the first asteroid collision known in modern times revealed itself in a tail of debris streaming from what astronomers at first assumed was a comet. Instead of a steady stream of dust ...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Did anyone see the meteor tracking west to east in the early morning of Oct. 11th, 2010 (about 3:30am Los Angeles time) as it crossed the eastern Pacific ocean? It was in view for about 2 minutes before descending over the eastern horizon, so pretty big. This was seen by various pilots flying over the eastern Pacific early on the 11th. I was one of them. One pilot almost to the coast thought it was inland at some point.