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Coachella Valley meteor

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The hunt for rocks from space

In a hunt that makes the proverbial needle in a haystack look like easy quarry, scientists have begun the search for remains of a suspected meteor which lit up the skies over the south-western US this week.
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Seeing a shooting star, many made wishes. Others are still intrigued. Peter Davenport is director of the National UFO Reporting Centre.

"It's definitely too early to say that it's a meteor. One would not expect a person to be witness to a meteor for 45 or 50 seconds."

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Meteor fireball 9/14/11

Ed ~ it seems to be quite slow, say 7km/sec ... almost like space junk re-entering the atmosphere....

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What exactly was seen in the skies across the Southwestern U.S. Wednesday night? Was it a meteor, a falling satellite or, perhaps, something more mysterious?
A streak of light that some are describing as a fireball, was seen shooting across the night sky and law enforcement and media from Phoenix to Los Angeles to Las Vegas were fielding calls of the reported sighting.
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Strange Lights in the Night Sky a Meteor or Debris?

Residents from Southern California to Arizona and Nevada report seeing large, multi-coloured objects dart across the sky Wednesday.
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Reported meteor was probably small piece of asteroid

The fireball seen streaking across the southwestern U.S. sky Wednesday night probably incinerated before striking the ground, an expert told The Times.
Thousands of people from Phoenix to Los Angeles reported seeing what they believed was a bright-green meteor.
But the object was probably a "near-earth asteroid" no bigger than a basketball, said Don Yeomans, a Jet Propulsion Laboratory Fellow who manages NASA's Near Earth Object Program.
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A real UFO flew over the Coachella Valley on Wednesday.
It was most likely a fireball - a fragment of an asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere - a NASA scientists said late Wednesday.
Experts and residents offered conflicting explanations, though, about the bright light the streaked through the Southwest.
Residents spotted it soaring across the sky about 7:45 p.m. It looked like a falling star that continued crashing toward a mountain, a Desert Sun reporter in Palm Springs said.
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