A 10-meter wide asteroid hits Earth and explodes in the atmosphere with the energy of a small atomic bomb. Our NEO Asteroid searches must have missed this one!

Check out the story at www.spaceweather.com

or youtube video of the huge daytime smoke trail and frightened children! Talk about a real scary halloween event!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeQBzTkJNhs

Also check out the one caught a few weeks ago by Canadian Police Cruiser camera, the Meteor crashed into a Car in a neighborhood in Ontario, Canada.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dan3wM3rns

This is why I do my asteroid Research from Dayton & JBSPO for the Smithsonian-Harvard's Minor Planet Center, and have since 1997...but there are not enough NEO hunters to cover the entire sky each night, so we miss a few of them.

Best Regards,
John Chumack
MPC# 838 Dayton Research Station
MPC# H66 Yellow Spring Research Station
www.galacticimages.com