The second year of an unprecedented balloon campaign in Antarctica has just begun. The NASA-funded mission – called the Balloon Array for Radiation belt Relativistic Electron Losses, or BARREL – is led by Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. The mission is unique, as it relies not on one gigantic balloon, but on many smaller ones, 20 in total.
Likely Entered Earth's Atmosphere On New Year's Day, Disintegrated Before Impact
Early Wednesday morning (Jan. 1, 2014), while New Year's 2014 celebrations were still underway in the United States, the Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson, AZ, collected a single track of observations with an immediate follow-up on what was possibly a very small asteroid -- 7 to 10 feet in size -- on a potential impact trajectory with Earth.
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