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News briefs
Meteor news: Overnight the Seattle Post-Intelligencer posted an article dated today telling about the meteorite-collecting Hupe brothers and the search by reportedly three teams for remnants of the June 3rd Washington state bolide (Index). And it quotes Rob Matson about his team's efforts. (See “cover” images yesterday and earlier for examples of Rob Matson's successful meteorite searching, albeit in terrains vastly simpler than where pieces may have fallen in Washington.)
Jim Gamble in El Paso, Texas reports a bright meteor caught heading almost due north overhead by his all-sky camera at 1:28am July 5th that he “nearly discarded as local fireworks,” but it “Just looked a bit too much like the real thing, so I sent it to Sandia for verification.” The Sandia National Labs all-sky camera in Albuquerque, New Mexico caught this meteor also, seen falling low on the southern horizon in a movie they have posted (590Kb).
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Bits & pieces: For updates on the two fires (the “Nutall complex”) threatening the Mt. Graham International Observatory in Arizona (see yesterday and “Bits & pieces” June 28th), there are AP wire stories at the Flagstaff Daily Sun “Fire watch” today and CNN today. And Sky & Telescope has a report from yesterday.
The Houston Business Journal has a long article posted yesterday from its July 2nd print edition about the implementation of a Fort Bend County light pollution ordinance designed to protect George Observatory, with a focus on how this affects an overlit nearby power plant.
The Rosetta comet mission has a brief status report from yesterday for the week of 25 June to 2 July, noting that “The spacecraft is configured for quiet cruise and the payload is off,” although some unplanned work was done to help investigate an anomaly with two of the reaction wheels, which are used to control orientation.
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