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QE2 Asteroid Makes Near-Earth Flyby This Week

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RedOrbit - Brett Smith - May 30, 2013

[ Update: May 30, 2013 - How To Watch ]

NASA has announced that members of the public can participate in both online and televised events on May 30 and 31 surrounding the space agency’s asteroid program and the impending near-Earth flyby of the 1.7-mile-long asteroid known as 1998 QE2.

As Earth warms, Arctic is warming fastest

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Earthsky.org - 5/30/13, Deborah Byrd

 

Global temperature anomalies. This map is comparing temperatures in the years 2000 to 2009 to the norms for the various regions from 1951 to 1980. You can see that - during this period - the Arctic warmed more dramatically than other parts of the globe. Image via NASA.

 

Global temperature anomalies. This map is comparing temperatures in the years 2000 to 2009 to temperatures norms elsewhere from 1951 to 1980. You can see that – during this period – the Arctic warmed more dramatically than other parts of the globe. Image via NASA.

This map shows how high latitudes on Earth – the Arctic – have warmed more dramatically over the past decades than other parts of the globe. The map shows global temperature anomalies for the years 2000 to 2009. In other words, it doesn’t show absolute temperatures. Instead, it illustrates how much warmer or colder a region was in 2000-2009 compared to the norm for 1951-1980.

 

Chile Snowstorm Buries Andes

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Accuweather.com - 5/29/13, Jim Andrews

 

 

The heavy storm clouds have left Chile, but not before unloading flooding rain and burying mountain snow.

The storm left one person dead and 231 people injured, the emol.com website said in translation on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, a full meter of new snow was measured by one ski operator near Santiago.

Lifts were open as of Wednesday at Ski Portillo, although the highway linking the slopes to cities in Chile and Argentina was closed, the resort website said.

Snowfall since Monday was put at 39.4 inches, or 100 cm. The storm lifted seasonal snowfall to 49.6 inches, or 126 cm, according to the website.

Fireballs Seen Over Regions Of Canada; Fireballs Seen Over Arkansas; Fireball Lights Up Eastern Seaboard; Comet Fragments Wows Stargazers

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Beforeitsnews.com - 5/29/13

 

 

‘Fireball’ is the name given to a meteor that appears to be brighter than Venus – one of the brightest planets in our sky, and a ‘bolide’ is a fireball that burns so bright that it can outshine the full moon. While spotting a fireball is rare, the meteors that cause them aren’t; according to the AMS, several thousand occur in Earth’s atmosphere each day.

 

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The Sunda Plate during the 7 of 10 plate movements- 80 villages of Cox’s Bazar inundated by sea water

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Poleshift.ning.com-5/28/13, Khan

 

 

No 6 of Cox's Bazar sadar upazila remains under sea since Mahasen hit the coast on May 16 

Almost 80,000 people marooned

 

eknaf upazilla parishad Chairman Shafiq Mia told reporters that 30 villages of his upazilla went under 2-3 feet tidal water since Thursday. Besides, another 30 villages of the Dhalghata union were also flooded by tidal water, the union’s Chairman Ahsan Ullah Bulu claimed, adding that sufferings of the marooned people were increasing day by day.

Meanwhile, 20 villages of Kutubdia were flooded due to broken embankment, alleged the upazilla’s Chairman ATM Nurul Bashar Chowdhury.

27 May 2013 Memorial Day Fireballs

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Amsmeteors.org- 5/29/13, Mike Hankey

 

Party goers on the East Coast were graced with two brilliant fireballs last night. The first bolide (event #1143) entered the atmosphere over north central PA around 9:05 PM Eastern time and was traveling from the east-south-east to the west-north-west.

 

Memorial Day Fireball – May 26th, 2013 9:05 PM Eastern Time

 

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U.S. Drought Monitor

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Drought.gov - 5/23/13

 

 

The U.S. Drought Monitor is unique, blending numeric measures of drought and experts' best judgment into a single map every week. It started in 1999 as a federal, state, and academic partnership, growing out of a Western Governors' Association initiative to provide timely and understandable scientific information on water supply and drought for policymakers.

The Monitor is produced by a rotating group of authors from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Drought Mitigation Center. It incorporates review from a group of 250 climatologists, extension agents, and others across the nation. Each week the author revises the previous map based on rain, snow and other events, observers' reports of how drought is affecting crops, wildlife and other indicators. Authors balance conflicting data and reports to come up with a new map every Wednesday afternoon. It is released the following Thursday morning

 

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