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Large Fireball over Southern California
215 witnesses have reported a large fireball over Southern California on November 6th around 7:50pm PST (3:50 on 11/7 UT). The fireball…
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Vincent Perlerin
Vincent Perlerin, PhD used to be a researcher in Computational Linguistics. He is now a software developer, a web designer, a community manager, an illustrator and many other things. He is working on the American Meteor Society under the supervision of Mike Hankey. Vincent is the lead developer of all the AMS projects. He's also the lead developer of the International Meteor Organization Website and the IMO online Databases management system.Large Fireball Meteor Over New Jersey
Over 95 (so far) witnesses reported a large fireball over New Jersey on October 24th around 7:15am EDT (11:15 UT).…
Amazing Photos of Friday Night’s Ohio Meteor
Here are two astonishings photos by Angela McClain of the Ohio Meteor (AMS Event #2132) this past Friday night. This…
New Fireball spotted in Midwest
The mid west has witnessed two major fireball events in less than 2 days. On Thursday (September 26th), the AMS…
Large Fireball Meteor with Sonics Over Alabama
Over 275 (so far) witnesses reported a large fireball over Alabama last night (9/9) around 8:25 PM local CDT (1:25…
Meteor Terminology
Few months ago, we created a poster about Meteor Terminology. We received a lot of comments about this poster. We…
Perseids 2013: the Amateur Guide
The Perseid is the most gifted Meteor Shower of the year for the Northern Hemisphere: The Perseid offers a consistently…
Asteroid 1998 QE2
The massive asteroid 1998 QE2 will pass 6.2 million kilometres (3.8 million miles) from the Earth on Friday, May 31st…
Meteor Terminology
Have you ever wondered what’s the difference between a meteor and a meteorite or an asteroid, meteoroid or comet? Here…