Fireballs on the Rise
There are increasing meteor reports recently all over the world. More debris from the Px tail...
ZetaTalk: Live Chat, written November 21, 2009
- "When the debris from the tail of Planet X first started arriving in ernest, in 2004, the establishment chose to call this space junk. When the public became alarmed at the amount of space junk falling to Earth they tried to enhance the story by claiming that two satellites had crashed into each other, but this just made a bad story worse. Since fireballs have not gone away, but continued apace and if anything gotten worse, a new term has been used - asteroids. This is debris in the tail of Planet X, which is increasingly turning toward the Earth, hosed out from the N Pole of Planet X. This is why the wobble has gotten more violent, why electromagnetic disruption of dams and airplanes has occurred, and why blackouts will become more frequent. There will also be displays in the sky, some of which has already been noticed, from the electromagnetic tides assaulting the Earth's atmosphere. Stay tuned, more to come!"
March 3, 2012
Reports of a "bright light" and an "orange glow" were received by police across Scotland and the north of England around 9.40pm.
The Met Office tweeted: "Hi All, for anyone seeing something in the night sky, we believe it was a meteorite."
A spokesman for Strathclyde Police said the force had been "inundated" with calls about a bright object in the sky across the west of Scotland. A Durham Police spokeswoman said a number of calls came in around 9.45pm from concerned members of public who had seen a "bright light or a fire in the sky" and believed it may have been incidents involving an aircraft. "
It has been confirmed with air traffic control that there are no incidents of aircraftin difficult and nothing registered on radar," she said. "
The sightings are believed to be either an asteroid burning out or similar which has been restricted to the upper atmosphere only." Grampian Police said reports of people seeing a "flare or a bright object with a tail" were received from across the region. And Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary said numerous calls were made about a "large ball of fire in the sky" across Annandale and Eskdale.
One user wrote on the force's Facebook page: "It was awesome to see! Really big and bright!" Hundreds of people took to Twitter to report similar sightings across Scotland and the north of England. People described seeing a bright fireball moving across the sky with a large tail.
The Kielder Observatory also reported the sighting of a "huge fireball" travelling from north to south over Northumberland at 9.41pm. The Observatory posted on Twitter: "Of 30 years observing the sky #fireball best thing I have ever seen period."
LINEAR INCREASE OF FIREBALL EVENTS SINCE 2010
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Comment by Scott on March 13, 2016 at 9:38am
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Meteor recorded by astronomy club cameras in Odessa, Ukraine and Mayaky, Ukraine on 3/9/16
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Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on March 10, 2016 at 5:00am
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https://www.inverse.com/article/12569-nasa-s-fireball-program-will-...
NASA's Fireball Program Will Test if Asteroids Hit Earth as Randomly as We Think
We have no clear idea of whether or not any one place is more likely to get hit with extraterrestrial debris.
If it weren’t for NASA’s automated Fireball and Bolide Reports system, no one would have ever known about the asteroid. The rock in question broke the surface of the Atlantic Ocean in February after piercing the atmosphere with the force of 13,000 tons of TNT. It was traveling thousands of miles an hour. Had it hit a city, no one would have seen it coming.
If you give an astronomer an asteroid’s size, its angular velocity, and composition, he or she could give you a decent approximation of what would happen when the asteroid hits. Less clear is predicting where on earth impacts are most likely to occur. But there’s a good chance it’s wet. “Just over 70 percent of Earth’s surface is ocean, which means about 70 percent of the impactors will land in water,” says William Cooke, a small-object expert with the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama.
This is true.
As a species that wants to survive for another couple hundred thousand years, we’ve become increasingly invested in tracking the asteroids in our solar system. Not because the frozen chunks of rock are particularly interesting on their own, but because they have the potential to become either meteors (the bright fireball flashes in the sky) or meteorites (the hunk of space rock that lands on Earth). If those are big enough, of course, they become extinction-level events. NASA keeps an eye on larger asteroids in the solar system, like the “big-ass meteor” that zipped by Monday morning. But where an object is likely to land is a bit of an astronomic crapshoot.
As far as we know, impact events aren’t more likely to land at, say, the equator than a pole. “No pattern discernible, as you can see from this plot released by NASA in November of 2014,” Cooke says. “Looks pretty random.”
Compounding the problem is that meteoric events, if they occur in isolated areas, go unreported. There are a few ways to spot meteors without human eyes or sensors, like seismometers, infrasound arrays, and satellite cameras. Cooke needs compound eyes to keep watch on the whole planet. But that’s just to get data, not to wring out a conclusion about when asteroids wind up hitting water or rock. There is simply no way to know that yet.
“We are just now beginning to establish networks that don’t rely on human feedback to extract information about fireballs,” Cooke says — NASA’s fireball program relies on cameras to spot unusually bright spots around the globe, for instance — “and the coverage is nowhere near what we need.”
When the program is up and running, data collection will improve significantly and we’ll be able to install “Beware of Falling Rocks” signs at appropriate locations.
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(3/9/16)
...Between March 2nd and March 8th only, the AMS recorded 6 major fireball events over the US only:
...In the weeks around the start of spring, NASA noticed that the appearance rate of fireballs can increase by as much as 30 percent.
The American Meteor Society statistics tend to show that February is the most active month for fireballs.
...NASA has no hypothesis on this fact and only notes that “more space debris litters this section of Earth’s orbit”
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Fireball Caught On Tape over Missouri on March 4th, 2016 (3/7/16)
This event has been caught on tape by Tim Zikowsky while setting up this dash cam on his way to work (at 0:10):
The American Meteor Society has received about 40 reports so far of a bright fireball on March 4th, 2016. The fireball was seen primarily from Missouri and Oklahoma but witnesses from Kansas, Arkansas, Missippi, and Texas also reported seeing this fireball. This event occurred near 10:53pm CST (04:33 on March 5th Universal Time).
http://www.amsmeteors.org/2016/03/fireball-caught-on-tape-over-miss...
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'Unusual' local meteor sighting reported (3/3/16)
Wednesday night, just before 10 p.m., sky-watchers from Maine to Philadelphia — and more than a few in the Lower Hudson Valley — caught a glimpse of a fireball, a meteor, burning up to dust as it entered the Earth’s atmosphere.
The American Meteor Society keeps a map of public meteor sightings and, according to Operations Manager Mike Hankey, about 34 [42] reports were received from across the Northeast, including one from Dobbs Ferry and another from Ardsley.
“It seemed to burn out at a low angle above the horizon,” said Andrew Ploski, of Nyack. “My 9-year-old son and I were traveling back home last night after a visit with his grandmother in Yonkers. We were traveling north on the Sprain Brook Parkway near the Ardsley Road overpass. There appeared a large, very bright fireball with trail about the brightness and size of a car headlight. It streaked across my field of vision very quickly from my upper right to lower left — east to west.”
http://www.lohud.com/story/tech/science/environment/2016/03/03/rare...
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2016/854
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Comment by Howard on March 5, 2016 at 4:21am
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Fireball Over Plymouth UK (Mar 1)
Ray Griffin, aged 70, was at home when he saw the "light in the sky" at about 10pm on Tuesday.
Mr Griffin, landlord of the Morley Arms in Plymstock, then heard what he describes as "gun fire" after the light disappeared.
The following day he was catching up with a pub regular, who described exactly the same turn of events.
Now Mr Griffin wants to get to the bottom of the strange sight.
"It was moving away from Laira Bridge," he recalls, "towards the A38. It looked like a bright orange ball of fire flying across the sky.
"It carried on going over and then disappeared, like somebody had just switched it off."
"There is quite a lot of meteor and NEO asteroid activity at the moment around the world. However, people only tend to pay attention when they see something for themselves or they are directly affected, and not until then."
Source
http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Did-meteor-fly-Plymouth-Pub-landlor...
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Comment by lonne rey on February 29, 2016 at 10:47pm
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Loud bang and white lights reported in skies over Scotland
Police in Aberdeen and Inverness say they have been receiving a large number of calls about a big, bright flash seen in the sky over Scotland.
People have taken to social media to report seeing a blue, white or green light, with some saying they also heard a rumbling sound.
There is speculation it could have been a meteor or may have been a sonic boom.
Some reports suggested the light may have been seen as far south as Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders.
Jenni Morrison captured dash-cam footage of the flash as she drove on the A944 between Westhill in Aberdeenshire at about 18:45.
She said: "It was absolutely weird. The sky lit up."
Garry J Hunter contacted BBC Scotland to say he had seen the flash over Lumphanan in Aberdeenshire. He described it as "a huge fireball-like trail across the sky, which seemed to then explode and light up the whole sky".
Val Hamilton from Nethy Bridge said she saw the sky light up south west of Aviemore at about 18:45.
"I saw a white ball with a tail passing through the sky at great speed. It was very dramatic," she said.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-3568...
http://news.stv.tv/north/1344710-loud-bang-and-white-lights-reporte...
A large white light and rumbling "bang" have been reported in the skies over the north east of Scotland, prompting speculation they may have been caused by a meteor.
Reports came in of a large white flash in the sky around 7pm on Monday, with Twitter users across the Highlands, Aberdeenshire and Perth saying they had witnessed the phenomenon.
Some people have reported feeling buildings shake as a result of the bang.
STV News weather presenter Sean Batty said the flash appeared to be from a meteor burning up in the atmosphere, lighting up a sheet of cloud.
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Third Fireball Over Spain in 3 Weeks (Feb 24)
Yet another fireball was caught on camera Wednesday over Spain.
The footage from the Calar Alto Observatory shows the fireball over the southern Spanish city of Cordoba.
The observatory doesn't know if this fireball has any relation with two others that have crossed the Spanish skies on Feb 23 and earlier in the month.
According to a report from NASA, an exceptionally bright meteor likely exploded over the South Atlantic Ocean on Feb. 6.
Source
http://www.wptv.com/news/science-tech/video-fireball-lights-up-skie...
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(2/25/16) Interior Alaska residents from Fort Yukon to Eielson Air Force Base reported seeing a fireball overhead Wednesday about 7 p.m.
The fireball, which was captured on the Geophysical Institute's All-Sky camera, flashed briefly into view and disappeared. One resident described it as a green flash with a long tail. Others said the tail also contained orange and red fragments. It was visible for only seconds, they told the American Meteor Society...
...Hampton said the meteor was probably about 50 or 60 miles above the ground – about where the lower edges of the aurora form — when it burned up. At that altitude, it could be seen from a long way away, he said.
...He estimated it was no larger than a pea.
https://www.facebook.com/UAF.GI/videos/940909005986681/
http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/interior-alaska-residents-...
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AMS received 176 reports about a fireball seen over Centre, Île-de-France, Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine, Région wallonne, Bourgogne, Hessen, Luxembourg, Picardie, Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz, Haute-Normandie, Walloon Region, Baden-Württemberg, Vlaanderen, Luxemburg, Grevenmacher and Nord-Pas-de-Calais on Thursday, February 25th 2016 around 10:31 UT.
The fireball travelled over the east of France between Reims and Nancy.
Social media was buzzing with comments from people who witnessed the fiery spectacle.
Frederick R said: “I looked out of my office window while I was on a call and clearly saw a fireball with a tail light. What struck me was that it seemed very close to the ground.”
The meteor appears to have started its path above Chalons-en-Champagne, heading north-east and disappearing between Marn, Meuse and Brussels.
Sources
http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2016/732
http://www.wort.lu/en/luxembourg/thursday-morning-meteor-spotted-ov...
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