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07-02-2018, 12:18 PM
Join EV Nautilus in a meteorite search
Deborah Byrd in HUMAN WORLD | SPACE | July 1, 2018
On Monday, the sea-going research vessel EV Nautilus will search for fragments of a minivan-sized meteorite that fell into the ocean, after lighting up skies over Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. You’re invited!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=SxNjfmujZ9Q
On Monday – July 2, 2018 – the sea-going research vessel Exploration Vessel Nautilus will search for fragments of a minivan-sized meteorite that fell into the ocean, after lighting up skies over Washington, Oregon and British Columbia in March. You’re invited! The search will take place about 14 miles (22 km) off the coast of the U.S. state of Washington. It’ll focus on the area in and around NOAA’s Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. Assuming the weather cooperates, a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) dive is scheduled to begin at approximately 9:00 a.m. PDT (16:00 UTC; translate UTC to your time) and last about seven hours. The public is invited to watch this exploration live at
www.nautiluslive.org
Jenny Waddell, research coordinator at Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, commented:
You’ll see what we find as soon as we do.
I haven’t seen any photos of the meteor as it streaked across the sky, and it prompted relatively few reports at the American Meteor Society’s fireball log. But there was one video uploaded to the AMS website – contributed by J. Bailey – showing a bright flash from the meteor as it streaked across the sky on March 7, 2018 (See video above).
Deborah Byrd in HUMAN WORLD | SPACE | July 1, 2018
On Monday, the sea-going research vessel EV Nautilus will search for fragments of a minivan-sized meteorite that fell into the ocean, after lighting up skies over Washington, Oregon and British Columbia. You’re invited!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=SxNjfmujZ9Q
On Monday – July 2, 2018 – the sea-going research vessel Exploration Vessel Nautilus will search for fragments of a minivan-sized meteorite that fell into the ocean, after lighting up skies over Washington, Oregon and British Columbia in March. You’re invited! The search will take place about 14 miles (22 km) off the coast of the U.S. state of Washington. It’ll focus on the area in and around NOAA’s Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary. Assuming the weather cooperates, a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) dive is scheduled to begin at approximately 9:00 a.m. PDT (16:00 UTC; translate UTC to your time) and last about seven hours. The public is invited to watch this exploration live at
www.nautiluslive.org
Jenny Waddell, research coordinator at Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, commented:
You’ll see what we find as soon as we do.
I haven’t seen any photos of the meteor as it streaked across the sky, and it prompted relatively few reports at the American Meteor Society’s fireball log. But there was one video uploaded to the AMS website – contributed by J. Bailey – showing a bright flash from the meteor as it streaked across the sky on March 7, 2018 (See video above).