Japan Under Fire?

[Laura]

I received a message on FB today about alleged meteor explosions in Japan.

Several Large Meteors Impact The Counry Causing A Huge Explosions And Panic Among People .

http://sonotaco.jp/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3013&sid=3983350f3f6e67b52ae5a699363bf7a0

Very Huge And Large Meteor In JAPAN !!!!

Can one of our Japanese speakers please check this out?

 

[Cosmos]

Found those videos.

Meteor Explodes Over japan 7 May 2013:
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA72drLGRv8

Meteor Explosion over Japan:
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJW5-9RDalU

Massive Fireball Explodes Over Japan!:
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gQbLnjvUDQ

Japan Meteor Explosion! 5/6/13:
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SJV6ZPQI8C8

More on it here:
_http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.de/2013/05/japan-fireball-meteor-08may2013-2013-71.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+LatestWorldwideMeteor/meteoriteNews+(Latest+Worldwide+Meteor/Meteorite+News)

 

[thorbiorn]

http://sonotaco.jp/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3013&sid=3983350f3f6e67b52ae5a699363bf7a0

Google translate does a reasonable job of the Japanese text. This it the one that came in on May 6th at 03:58.
One can download several small videos from this forum.

 

[SeekinTruth]

Found those videos.

Meteor Explodes Over japan 7 May 2013:
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA72drLGRv8

The first video has been "taken down by user."

It looks like a pretty big fireball from the other videos.

 

[Aya]

I took a look at the website and I tried to translate it as best as I could. I hope it makes sense.

06May2013 – 3:58pm17sec. Aquarius meteroric shower – 10 orders of magnitude explosion fireball

ts007 : 06May2013 – 3:58pm17sec. Aquarius meteoric shower – 10 orders of magnitudes explosion fireball. Meteoric trail lasted for 6 minutes. The result of analysis, it was maximum – 10 orders of magnitude. I could not get the accurate measures of disappearing point with automatic analysis. I could capture these fireballs in my two cameras. My other two cameras recorded flashes from the same fireballs. I woke up at 3:55am. I noticed it while was checking the live videos, then I could see 6 minutes of meteoric tail with my eyes through a live camera. At the same time, I captured 10 frames of a change in the tail patterns. 4:09am 6sec. There were also – 5 magnitudes fireball in the sky.

Ａｒ！: In Aizu (Fukushima), there we saw a meteorite in Sagittarius. We witnessed it while we were recording the northwest side of the sky, so I only recorded its tail. （18mm　f/3.5　ISO1000　4sec）After I went home, I checked my UC and there I saw it was captured it splendidly. The result of analysis, it was – 7.7 magnitudes.

*Normally, I could have ended my observation 45minutes before dawn, but because of the fireballs from 5th of morning, I extended it for 25minutes then. Otherwise, I would not have been able to capture it in my video.

SonotaCo: In Tokyo, fireballs were recorded throughout two cameras.
Unfortunately explosion was occurred at view boundary so the beam of light was not symmetrical and I could not pin point the center, therefore I was not able to measure the explosion’s orders of magnitude, however, it had already -7.8 magnitudes just prior, so it was probably brighter than -10 magnitudes.

Tails was beautifully captured.
After the explosion, there were nucleuses (debris) like stuff appeared from the trace.
I have wondered from before if this explosion debris going to turn to become meteorites.
Is there a name for it already? If not, I want to name it "爆残核" “nucleus of explosive debris” or something like that. Folks, is there a good name for this stuff?

Masuzawa: This is incredible.
It happens to ruin them if you try to take peak hold pictures.
I was out for while so after May 1st, I got a lot of stuff unanalyzed.

三本松ＨＳ　三好: From Kagawa, it was -5.8 magnitudes.

Mars: It was barely in my view from Okayama.

Ada: It entered in my field of HD camera. Tail is also captured clearly.

磐田南高校: Hi, I am磐田南高校スプライト班.
I used UFO capture from Shizuoka and recorded the meteorite that was facing towards Nigata coast. It was 3:58am 19sec.

磐田南高校: Attached file is the pictures of meteorites that I took the other day.
This picture was taken in Shizuoka.

You can see the explosion nucleus that fly out from the meteorite.