meteor tracking...really ?

[sky otter]

was trying to find out if it was a meteor up in michigan and came across a whole bunch of interesting stuff...so not in order  but sorta kinda connected...

do you think our gov would use us via trickery  to observe ufos under the guise of watching for meteors.....nah..of course not


NASA TRACKS UFO MOVEMENTS - ALL-SKY METEOR TRACKING CAMERAS - UFO ABNORMALITIES - ALIENS!
Uploaded by FrancisHaley on Feb 20, 2012

These clips contain UFO footage from NASA's new all sky meteor tracking cameras which detect abnormalities such as movement and brightness flux. Everything you need to track down more than a handful of UFOs!!








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http://www.n2yo.com/?s=12585
REAL TIME SATELLITE TRACKING
Never miss a Space Station pass! The ISS Notification Tool


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http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-03/16/nasa-fireball-network
Nasa builds meteor-tracking 'Fireball Network'
By Duncan Geere
16 March 11
US space agency Nasa is planning to cover the United States with cameras facing upward to track meteorites as they enter the atmosphere.

The scheme, which has been named the "All-sky Fireball Network" will allow researchers to triangulate observations of space rocks to try and figure out where they're going to land, making them easier to recover. It's entirely automated -- computers scan the images received to try and work out which objects are meteors, and then send any positive results to Nasa, which puts them on the web.

The network currently consists of just three cameras -- in the US states of Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. Nasa's William Cooke, head of the agency's Meteoroid Environment Office, hopes to expand that to 15 cameras across the eastern half of the US, and is talking to schools, planetariums and science centres to host them. "If someone calls me and asks 'What was that?' I'll be able to tell them," he told Singularity Hub.

Other meteorite monitoring systems exist, particularly over the less-populated western half of the US, but the Fireball Network is the first that's completely automated, using optical recognition technology to identify the flaming signature of a meteorite burning up in the atmosphere (or the occasional spider). Eventually, it's hoped that the various meteor-monitoring networks could link up to cover the whole country.

It's not a warning system -- once a meteor is detected it'll likely be too late to alert any nearby residents. But data from the Fireball Network will be used to improve the shielding used on spacecraft, as well as being kept as a record of every large meteoroid to burn up over the US. It'll also help researchers track more of them down.

One of Cooke's assistants told Nasa's Science News: "Most meteorites fall in the ocean, lakes, forests, farmer's fields, or the Antarctic...and the majority of those meteorites will never be found. But our system will help us track down more of them."



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http://www.spaceweather.com/
On June 28, 2012 there were 1319 potentially hazardous asteroids.


Recent & Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters: Asteroid Date(UT) Miss Distance Mag. Size
2005 GO21 Jun 21 17.1 LD -- 2.2 km
2012 LU Jun 23 5.8 LD -- 39 m
2012 MY2 Jun 29 1.3 LD -- 24 m
2003 KU2 Jul 15 40.2 LD -- 1.3 km
2004 EW9 Jul 16 46.8 LD -- 2.1 km
2002 AM31 Jul 22 13.7 LD -- 1.0 km
37655 Illapa Aug 12 37 LD -- 1.2 km
2000 ET70 Aug 21 58.5 LD -- 1.0 km
1998 TU3 Aug 25 49.2 LD -- 4.9 km
2009 AV Aug 26 62.8 LD -- 1.1 km


Notes: LD means "Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU. MAG is the visual magnitude of the asteroid on the date of closest approach. 

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http://scistarter.com/project/296-Alabama%20Meteor%20Tracking
Alabama Meteor Tracking

On the evening of May 18, NASA all-sky meteor cameras located at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and at the Walker County Science Center near Chickamauga, Ga. tracked the entry of a large meteor estimated to weigh some 60 pounds over northeastern Alabama. This meteor was first picked up at an altitude of 47 miles over northwest Huntsville, moving at a speed of 8 miles per second toward the southeast. It was last visible northeast of Gurley at an altitude of 23 miles. The meteor was quite bright, with an intensity rivaling that of the waxing crescent moon (in astronomical terms, it was about visual magnitude -8.3).

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yep..there's even an app for that


http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/13dec_meteorcounter/

New App Helps NASA Keep Track of Meteoroids Play ScienceCast Video Join Mailing List

Dec. 13, 2011: Surprising but true: Every day, on average, more than 40 tons of meteoroids strike our planet.  Most are tiny specks of comet dust that disintegrate harmlessly high up in Earth's atmosphere, producing a slow drizzle of meteors in the night sky.  Bigger chunks of asteroid and comet debris yield dozens of nightly fireballs around the globe. Some are large enough to pepper the ground with actual meteorites.

With so much "stuff" zeroing in on our planet, NASA could use some help keeping track of it all.

Enter the Meteor Counter--a new iPhone app designed to harness the power of citizen scientists to keep track of meteoroids.

"Using our app, people from all walks of life can contribute to authentic NASA research," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, which sponsored the project. "The data will help us discover new meteor showers, pinpoint comet debris streams, and map the distribution of meteoroids around Earth's orbit."

[FrozenAlchemy]

Every day, on average, more than 40 tons of meteoroids strike our planet.

So if every day the planet is getting 40 tons heavier.   Subtract the amount of mass escaping out into space (and being launched off) and the planet's gravitational field is getting stronger all the time, right?

No wonder I keep gaining weight.  It's a cosmic conspiracy.

[sky otter]

No wonder I keep gaining weight.  It's a cosmic conspiracy.


hahahah thanks for that...some gold will make ya even heavier..hahahahah