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We received 223 reports about a fireball seen over Arkansas, IA, IL, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, KS, Minnesota, Missouri, MN, MO, NE, Nebraska, OK, Oklahoma, South Dakota, WI and Wisconsin on Tuesday, November 12th 2019 around 02:53 UT.

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Did a UFO affect the trajectory of this Fireball over Pyramids of Egypt?

 'Unicorn meteor storm' to be triggered by mysterious comet Thursday night

By Brian Lada, AccuWeather meteorologist and staff writer  Updated nov. 19, 2019 11:41 AM

This is not your typical meteor shower. On Thursday night, stargazers may get to see several meteors per second during a rare event known as a meteor storm.

There is a chance that the upcoming alpha Monocerotid meteor shower could turn into an all-out meteor storm on the night of Nov. 21, according to Esko Lyytinen and Peter Jenniskens, two meteor scientists who have been studying the meteor shower.

It is not a guarantee that such an event will unfold, but Lyytinen and Jenniskens say that there is a “good chance” that this will bring the first alpha Monocerotids meteor storm since 1995, when it produced rates of around 400 meteors per hour.

What time to look for the flurry of meteors

Knowing when to look for the potential meteor storm is extremely important.

“Unlike most meteor outbursts which last for several hours, strong activity from the alpha Monocertids is over within an hour and easily missed,” the American Meteor Society (AMS) explained on its website.

The outburst is forecast to reach its climax around 11:50 p.m. EST on Nov. 21, according to the AMS.

Onlookers should start looking for shooting stars around 11 p.m. EST and continue looking through midnight for the best chance to see the potential meteor storm. If you are not outside during this window, you may miss the celestial light show entirely.

“These meteors are never spaced evenly but appear in bunches so 2-3 meteors may be seen seconds apart and then an entire minute could go by without any activity,” the AMS said.

What exactly is a ‘meteor storm’

We have all heard of meteor showers, sparked when the Earth passes through a field of debris left behind by an asteroid or comet.

Outburst of unknown origins

The alpha Monocertids is a mysterious meteor shower as scientists are unsure about when it started, or what exactly is causing it.

“This outburst is caused by the dust released by a long-period comet, but the comet itself is still unknown.“

Despite these uncertainties, one thing is known for sure: the meteors radiate from Monoceros, a faint constellation that is Greek for unicorn and located just to the left of the well-known constellation Orion.

Contrary to popular belief, shooting stars will be visible in much of the night sky, not just the area near the unicorn constellation, as long as clouds do not obscure the sky.

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Events in 2019 5814-2019

We received 149 reports about a fireball seen over CT, DE, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, Ontario, PA, Québec, Quebec, RI and VA on Friday, November 22nd 2019 around 22:24 UT.

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What Do They Know? US And Russia Both Developing Plans To Deal With Incoming Asteroids  12-27-2019

When the Russians take decisive action, it is usually for a reason. As you will see below, the Russians have suddenly decided that now is the time to create an organization that will be tasked with detecting, tracking and potentially destroying incoming asteroids. Are they doing this now because they have finally decided that this is a good idea, or has something gotten their attention? Of course they are not likely to publicly admit if they have come to the conclusion that a gigantic space rock is heading directly toward us. Just like the U.S. government, the Russian government is very interested in maintaining social order, and so they would probably delay telling the public about a potential asteroid impact for as long as possible.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/what-do-they-know-us-and-rus...

Mr Putin unveiled the Avangard and other weapons systems in his annual state-of-the-nation address in March 2018, likening it to a "meteorite" and a "fireball".

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GUAM Mariana Islands Fireball 12-28-2019

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“Fireball” lights up Saskatchewan sky Saturday night

Saskatoon / 650 CKOM

December 31, 2019 10:27 am

Saskatchewan residents were treated to a unique sight Saturday night, when a possible meteor lit up the night sky.

Tim Yaworski, member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) who saw the flash, told paNOW that it was a “fireball.”

“It was a very bright meteor known as a fireball,” he said.

“In the case of the [meteor] this weekend, it was just large enough that it took quite a long time to burn up and created a much brighter display than normal.”

James Edgar is a past president of the RASC.

Now living in Melville, Edgar wasn’t able to actually see the bright light in the sky Saturday. However, he has some of his own suspicions on what it could have been.

“Could be as simple as a small asteroid, or a meteor. Or, it could be a spent rocket body from a launch. Could have been years ago, it’s been orbiting the Earth,” he told 650 CKOM.

Edgar said when these events happen, report your sightings to the American Meteor Society.

During this event, there were 12 reports on the website. Based on the findings, the possible meteor was seen in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Alberta and North Dakota.

Meteor streaks over Puerto Rico, unsettling some amid quakes

1/17/20

http://www.dailyjournal.net/2020/01/17/cb-puerto-rico-meteor/

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A meteor streaked low across the sky in Puerto Rico on Friday, setting social media abuzz as the spectacle amazed some people and unsettled others on an island still being hit daily by small earthquakes.

The bright burning ball was caught by security cameras and people randomly taking pictures and video of other things.

Rafael Rivera, a pharmacist, said he saw and heard the fireball as he passed over a toll bridge in northern Puerto Rico, briefly worrying it was a malfunctioning plane.

“It was a loud noise,” he said. “I see this ball of fire, very fast and very big, and I said, ‘Wow, that can’t be a plane because it’s going too fast.'”

The meteor was visible across Puerto Rico in broad daylight, said Eddie Irizarry, a Puerto Rico astronomy professor and vice president of the Caribbean Astronomy Society. He said he got reports from all corners of the island.

Meanwhile, officials at Puerto Rico’s main international airport said they captured the event on camera but flight operations were not interrupted.

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Puerto Ricans baffled by strange lights appearing overhead in dawn skies (VIDEO, PHOTOS) 21 Jan, 2020

Residents of Puerto Rico were stunned to witness a bizarre phenomenon in the skies just off the island, as an unusual array of lights inexplicably appeared in the distance for some time before completely disappearing.

At approximately 6:30am local time Tuesday, eyewitnesses began seeing strange light formations in the sky, many of whom took out their camera phones to document what they were seeing.

While some were quick to call it “the end of days,” thankfully the Caribbean Astronomical Society (SAC) was on hand to allay the public’s fears of doomsday, an alien invasion or indeed some Elon Musk-related celestial light displays.

Eddie Irizarry, Vice President of SAC, explained that the phenomenon was merely the fuselage of a CZ-3B Chinese rocket re-entering the atmosphere after some three years, having delivered a TJS-2 satellite into orbit.

https://www.rt.com/usa/478799-mysterious-lights-above-puerto-rico/

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Fireball meteor reported over Cyprus

January 22, 2020 at 7:58am

The Cyprus Astronomy Organisation took to social media last night to report that a bright fireball meteor had been observed after 10 pm in the sky over Cyprus.

It also urged the public to report their own sightings and to complete if possible an attached report.

Sightings were reported from across the island

Fireballs are meteors that appear brighter than normal, the International Meteor Organisation explains on its website.

A great majority of the material orbiting in outer space are tiny sub-millimeter sized bits of stone, ice, or metal, or a combination of these materials. These are known as micrometeoroids or simply space dust. These tiny fragments cannot produce enough light to be seen when encountering the atmosphere and yet they contribute many tons of material to the Earth’s weight each year. As the size of these objects approach a millimeter, they begin to produce enough light to be seen upon entry to the upper atmosphere as ordinary meteors.

Due to the velocity at which they strike the Earth’s atmosphere, fragments larger than 1 millimeter have the capability to produce a bright flash as they streak through the heavens above. These bright meteors are what we call fireballs and they often strike fear and awe for those who witness them.

Fireballs actually occur every day all over the Earth. To the individual though, they are a rare spectacle that is witnessed very few times per lifetime. It must be remembered that fireballs also occur during the day or on a cloudy night. They also occur over the ocean or over uninhabited portions of land. Even if a fireball occurs over your location, you need to be outside facing the right direction or you will still miss it. Therefore the International Meteor Organisation takes keen interest in these sightings in the hope that its origin can be determined and that perhaps meteorites can be recovered, it added.

Only true fireballs have the ability to survive all the way down to the Earth’s surface. The easiest method to determine whether a meteor was a fireball or not, is to estimate its brightness. If the object you witnessed is brighter than any object in the sky except for the sun and the moon, then it is a fireball. Another important factor is the duration of a fireball. While larger than most all other meteors entering the atmosphere, they still are traveling at tremendous velocities. Like ordinary meteors, they will suffer disintegration and will slow down to the point where they no longer produce light. This usually takes only a few seconds. Rarely a very large fireball will last 5-10 seconds before it is extinguished. If your object lasts in excess of 10 seconds it is most likely a satellite or some sort of aircraft and not a fireball.

The brightness is difficult to estimate but most fireballs are usually in the range of magnitude -5 to -10. Magnitude -5 is equivalent to the planet Venus at its brightest. At this magnitude a fireball can cast a very faint shadow under the darkest conditions. As fireballs increase in brightest (from -5 to -10) the shadows become pronounced and easier to see. At magnitude -9, the light from a fireball is equivalent to the light produced by a half-illuminated moon. At magnitude -13, the light from a fireball is equivalent to the light produced by a full moon. Fireballs brighter than the full moon are exceedingly rare.

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Watch dramatic moment fireball crashes to earth

UPDATED: 10:31 22 January 2020

A couple were left stunned as they watched a fireball crashing to earth in East Anglia

It was spotted across Norfolk and Suffolk on Sunday, January 19 with sightings in Haddiscoe, Norwich, Blakeney, East Rudham and Wells.

Matthew and Claire Ling were travelling near Ipswich when they spotted it at 5.12pm.

Mr Ling, from Woodbridge, said: "It was totally coincidental. We saw this intense white light to the right of us.

"The trajectory was unlike a plane or a drone. It was coming over Tattingtone, towards the river. It was quite impressive and fascinating to watch. When we got home my wife said it must have been a meteor or a fireball."

It was reported to the UK Meteor Network Twitter site, and Dan Self, chairman of Breckland Astronomical Society, said: "Fireballs can hit the atmosphere at up to 70km a second. This fireball could probably have been seen all over England."

https://www.ckom.com/2020/01/20/658358/

‘Looked like a roman candle:’ people witness fireball in Sask. sky

January 20, 2020 10:03 am

The Land of the Living Skies lived up to its name early Monday.

A number of people said they witnessed a bright light with a tail shoot across the sky around 7:10 a.m.

“All of a sudden you see this big blueish-green streak come across due north. It was coming through the fog and clouds. It was really quite bright,” said Chad Parenteau, who captured the mystery light on his dash cam near Wakaw.

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Shea Olson, who was driving northeast of Saskatoon near Aberdeen, also witnessed the phenomenon, which many believe was a meteor.

“Almost looked like a roman candle, but was a lot higher. A big green ball just came shooting across the sky,” he said, adding it lasted only a few seconds before it was gone.

Daryl Janzen, a departmental assistant in the physics department at the University of Saskatchewan, confirmed the sighting as a meteor.

“Looks like it’s a fireball, which is a bright meteor,” he said after viewing footage of the bright flash.

“It’s probably an asteroid hitting our atmosphere. This is probably just a larger one that burns brighter.”

Janzen could only speculate where the object landed, or if it landed anywhere at all.

The fireball could be a comet that completely burned up in the atmosphere. An asteroid has a better chance of remaining intact, according to Janzen.

“Even bright fireballs don’t all make it to the ground,” Janzen said.

Sightings were also reported as far away as Kyle and North Battleford.

Extremely rare bolide meteor fireball caught on video in the sky over Bude in Cornwall 23 JAN 2020
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Unidentified Fiery Object!

23 January 2020

On 18 January 2020 at 16:44 UTC (17:44 local time), two fireball cameras in ESA’s FRIPON camera network spotted a stream of light in the skies above northwestern Germany. The trajectory of the ball of fire suggests a small meteorite could have landed in the vicinity of Oldenburg

The fireball streams across top-left of the image, taken by a FRIPON camera at the University of Oldenburg
Fireballs are caused as small asteroids strike Earth’s atmosphere, entirely or almost entirely burning up due to friction,The object that impacted Earth on this occasion is estimated to have been just 10-40 cm in diameter, before it entered the atmosphere. The observed fireball flew in a south to north direction, west of the German city of Cloppenburg and heading towards the nearby city of Friesoythe.
It is possible that one, or even several small pieces survived the journey through our protective atmosphere and reached the ground as meteorites. Such meteorites however will be just a few grams in mass and difficult to find. and appearing in the sky brighter than the planet Venus.

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Meteor Explodes Depicting A Bright Burning Fireball Over Derby Sky

Meteor Explodes Depicting A Bright Burning Fireball
A clueless occupant of Derby has coincidentally caught a fantastic film of a fireball detonating in the sky. Gary Rogers, 52, was stunned to get a book from his savvy doorbell cautioning him to suspicious movement outside his home. Be that as it may, he wasn’t being burgled or visited by some dodgy character of the night. His doorbell had seen a meteor searing over the sky before detonating in a tremendous, brilliant fireball.

Mr. Rogers stated: ‘I was sleeping and was going to rest when my telephone pinged. I could barely handle it. ‘I thought it was a firecracker from the start. However, I tuned in to the sound, and you couldn’t hear any commotion.
‘I’ve seen falling stars previously; however, never a meteor. I thought it’s unquestionably not a firecracker, and it was unreasonably splendid for that. ‘The entire skyline was lit up, and there was no stable. ‘I saw the path first; then it detonated into the sky. I realized later it was a meteor. ‘There was an immense half-circle streak. It was delightful to see. ‘I demonstrated it to my child Euan, and he was truly energized.

‘I was anticipating that it should be a fox or hedgehog-like normal. My companions have been stating it resembles something out of War of the Worlds.’ It is unordinary for a fireball to be gotten on camera. Loot Dawes, the administrator of Sherwood Observatory, stated: ‘Mr. Rogers was fortunate to get such a decent brilliant one.

‘However, you’d be astonished what number of these do come into the climate whenever of year.’ Meteors hit Earth regularly and, for the most part, detonate innocuously in the sky. In any case, now and again, they endure their excursion into the air and tumble to Earth as shooting stars – conceivably causing enormous harm.

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Dramatic moment a huge fireball flew over north Norfolk
PUBLISHED: 11:56 05 February 2020

A 29 yr year-old man from Sustead, who did not want to be named, caught the moment the chunk of space rock flew over Norfolk between Alby and Hanworth. Picture: Supplied
A man was left stunned as he caught the moment a fireball flew over the north Norfolk coast

A 29-year-old man from Sustead, who did not want to be named, filmed the chunk of space rock over Norfolk between Alby and Hanworth.
The footage was taken at 10.30pm on Monday, February 3 when the man, who preferred to remain anonymous, was driving home after meeting his friends.
The man said: "I haven't seen anything like this before. I have seen the odd shooting star but this illuminated the whole sky.
"I did think it could be a firework to begin with but quickly discounted that as it was just too large and bright."

Mark Thompson, astronomer and TV presenter, said: "It is quite tricky to ascertain exactly what the object is in footage like this. My initial assessment is that this is an object classed as a fireball.
"These are related very closely to meteors and meteorites and all are rocks travelling through space that happen to collide with Earth.
"As they fall through the Earth's atmosphere, the presence of the gas causes the plummeting rock to give off the characteristic glow that we perceive as shooting stars although they are not related to stars.
"A meteor is a space rock that gets destroyed high up in the atmosphere: a meteorite is the same but survives the fiery plunge to land on Earth, and a fireball is just a bigger and brighter version.
"I see footage like this maybe a couple of times a year but there are many more that do not get caught on camera.

"You have to be looking in the right direction at the right time."

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SPACE INVADER - Brilliant CCTV footage captured fireball meteor as it shot across the Bradford sky

This is the moment a meteor exploded spectacularly in Bradford's night sky and was captured on a doorbell security camera.
Carl Seed, 49, expected to spot a curious cat when his security camera alerted him to “suspicious movement” - but it was a meteor lighting up the sky.
The stunning footage shows rooftops in the Apperley Bridge area illuminated by the passing fireball meteor as it shot across the sky at 11.30pm last Monday. 
The electrician was about to jet off to work early Tuesday morning when he checked the footage and was shocked to see an exploding meteor speeding across the sky.

Carl, from Bradford, said he was amazed by how close the meteor appeared to be - although it is likely it exploded 60km up in space.

Carl, from Bradford, said he was amazed by how close the meteor appeared to be - although it is likely it exploded 60km up in space.
The dad-of-two said: “I was quite surprised because I didn’t hear anything the night before, but I wanted to know what it was.
“I didn’t plan it as I had no idea there even was a meteor the night it happened - but my CCTV camera will notify me when there’s any suspicious movement.

“Nothing generally happens, it’s mostly just cats - but you never expect something like a meteorite.
“It was unexpected and I spent all day at work just trying to figure out what it was.
“It was this massive bright flash and it just lit everything up - it’s not the sort of thing you see every day.
“It looked like it exploded so close to ground, but I heard it was actually thousands of miles in the air - just crazy.
“I’m chuffed I got the video because it’s quite cool and unusual.”
There was a flurry of meteor sightings submitted from all over the UK and Europe at the same time.

Atlanta, GA

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MEXICO Fireball 2-18-2020

Fireball over Kerelia, Russia 02-20-2020

ARIZONA Fireball  2020/02/26 

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Photographer captures a meteor falling and the Milky Way in a single shot while flying to Australia

Credit: Eric Wagner Photo

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Daytime Fireball Explodes Over Croatia (Feb 28) 

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https://spaceweather.com/archive.php (March 1, 2020)

Daytime Asteroid APPEARS to Impact Earth Behind Volcano - HUGE Flash!   

#MrMBB333   Mar 2, 2020

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Meteor Strikes Over the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington D.C.

The sky event occurred on March 3, 2020, around 5 a.m. (ET).

https://meteorshowertonight.org/meteor-us-capitol-washington-dc-video/

A meteorite has reportedly fallen near a Sahibabad railway station in the city of Ghaziabad, the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on March 5, 2020.

According to local media reports, the event took place during heavy rains. A loud thunder-like sound was heard before the object hit the ground, causing panic among locals.

City fire brigade officials said the object kept smoldering even after they doused the flames. Scientists who examined it suggested the material which fell from the sky seems to be sodium, as it gave rise to fumes when it came in contact with water.

Samples were sent to a laboratory in Lucknow for further testing.

Several residents said they saw three objects falling from the sky.

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WATCH: Oregon and SW Washington see at least 2 fireballs in night sky

by KATU StaffThursday, March 5th 2020

PORTLAND, Ore. -- If you looked up at the sky last night, you may have seen a fireball visible from western Oregon and southwest Washington!
The American Meteor Society Fireball log says there were numerous reports on the night of March 4. The first one was reported around 7:15 p.m. due southeast.

A second fireball appeared around 12:50 a.m. early Thursday morning due westward. This second one was visible from the Oregon coast and Tacoma, WA.
"Weather then was partly cloudy over the valley. Reports like these are valuable to help determine reports of the fireball or meteor, and perhaps meteorite fragments if any," said Jim Todd, the Director of Space Science Education at OMSI.

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Video Captures Asteroid Hitting Earth And Flashing Over Florida

03/16/20 AT 5:30 AM

KEY POINTS
A fireball event was spotted in Florida
Video shows the fireball fizzling out before disappearing
A small asteroid may have hit the Earth and caused the fireball event
Several residents in Florida spotted a bright meteor streaking across the sky. Video of the incident showed the object turning into a bright fireball before disappearing.
Eyewitness reports regarding the recent fireball event were compiled by the International Meteor Organization (IMO). In total, the organization received 25 reports from different areas across Florida, such as Tampa, Bay Lake, Davenport, Jacksonville and Palm Harbor.
According to the reports filed by the eyewitnesses, the fireball appeared on March 11 at around 8:00 pm EDT. Many of them noted that the object appeared for about 1.5 to 3.5 seconds long before disappearing. Some eyewitnesses claimed they heard a sizzling type of sound as the fireball streaked across the sky.
A resident named Chrissy S. from Palmetto, Florida, said that the fireball had a mostly orange color and looked like a burning piece of paper. She stated in her report that although she did not see the fireball explode, its brightness dimmed before disappearing in the sky.

“It was extremely bright. The brightness is what caught my eye,” she stated in her eyewitness report. “It was mostly orange. It did not explode, but it “fizzled out” into embers like a burning piece of paper. It was pretty amazing.”

The fireball event was captured on video by another Florida resident named Joseph G. from Lakeland. The video, which appears to have been captured via CCTV, was shared on YouTube by the American Meteor Society

Although the clip is only four seconds long, it was able to clearly show the fireball as it streaked across the sky. Similar to what Chrissy S. indicated in her report, the fireball appeared as a bright spherical object in the sky before fizzling out.
The object that caused the recent fireball event was most likely caused by a small asteroid that collided with Earth. As it entered the atmosphere, it turned into a meteor and started to burn up, transforming it into a bright fireball.
“As the size of these objects approach a millimeter, they begin to produce enough light to be seen upon entry to the upper atmosphere as ordinary meteors,” the IMO explained in a statement. “Due to the velocity at which they strike the Earth’s atmosphere, fragments larger than 1 millimeter have the capability to produce a bright flash as they streak through the heavens above.”

“Is It An Asteroid?” Nigerians Question Strange Explosion In Akure

28 March 2020  Earlier in the month of March, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that an asteroid will fly over the earth. This asteroid was referred to as large and potentially hazardous.

The asteroid called 2012 XA133 was set to pass Earth on Thursday, March 26 [March 27 in Nigeria] at a speed of 53,000mph. However, with a note of assurance, NASA said that the Earth will not be affected.

“As they orbit the Sun, NEOs [Near Earth Object] can occasionally approach close to Earth.

“Note that a ‘close’ passage astronomically can be very far away in human terms: millions or even tens of millions of kilometres.”

However, Nigerians located in Akure were alert the early hours of this morning after a loud noise that shook the whole town was heard in Akure, destroying some buildings located in the Eleyowo community in the town. Eleyowo located a kilometre away from the Akure airport, saw a large number of buildings including churches and a school affected by the explosion.

Amidst speculations on what the noise is, some have reported that it was a truck carrying explosives that exploded, while some have raised questions about the asteroid.

Was it an asteroid? Was it an explosion? Different questions have been posed and below are some reactions:

https://guardian.ng/life/is-it-an-asteroid-nigerians-question-explo...

https://www.ibtimes.com/asteroid-collides-earth-causes-fireball-ove...

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1263994/fireball-explode-met...

Fireball explodes over English Channel

https://www.amsmeteors.org/2020/04/meteor-activity-outlook-for-apri...

Meteor Activity Outlook for April 4-10, 2020

Daniel Bush captured this fine fireball on the morning of 30 March 2020 at 08:47 Universal Time from Albany, Missouri, USA. He mentions that the camera was set to high sensitivity and that the fireball was overexposed with artifacts

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Video shows bolide fireball exploding over Europe as asteroid hits Earth [WATCH]
Eyewitnesses from different parts of Europe were able to capture videos of a fireball streaking across the sky

April 7, 2020 14:04 +08

Bolide Fireball Events
As seen in the videos, the fireball produced a bright flash right before it disappeared in the sky. This suggests that the object may have detonated and fragmented before hitting the ground. According to the American Meteor Society (AMS), fireballs caused by small asteroids that hit Earth, which then become meteors. Those that explode right before disappearing are referred to as bolides.
"A fireball is another term for a very bright meteor, generally brighter than magnitude -4, which is about the same magnitude of the planet Venus as seen in the morning or evening sky," the AMS explained. "A bolide is a special type of fireball which explodes in a bright terminal flash at its end, often with visible fragmentation."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlhCANOBp00&feature=emb_logo

Planetary Defense: Avoiding a Cosmic Catastrophe  Apr 4, 2020

Our planet has been continually bombarded by asteroids since its formation, 4.5 billion years ago. While the frequency of large impacts has decreased, many potential Near-Earth Object threats remain undiscovered, so if or when they will impact Earth remains unknown. Fortunately, if an Earth-threatening asteroid is discovered in time, there are ways to mitigate or even prevent a disaster. Scientists at LLNL provide computer simulations in preparation these scenarios so if the time comes where an asteroid is headed our way, we will be prepared

https://youtu.be/EpaBzVoc3OU

Manilla, Philippines, Fireball last night

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Elon Musk's Starlink satellites pass by, punctuated by a Fireball, a reminder that Nibiru approaches. Nottingham, England. 

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Meteor falls in Ecuador: videos of the moment of impact in Guayas

https://www.metroecuador.com.ec/ec/noticias/2020/04/23/meteorito-ca...

Thursday April 23, 2020,

The morning of this Thursday, April 23, a meteorite fall was reported in the canton of El Empalme, Guayas. Purples of the sector captured the moment the space rock hit.

In a first recording it is observed as a product of the shock against the Earth's surface, a blue light is emitted, which illuminated the still dark dawn. An anti-explosive team from the GIR went to Puerto El Mono 1 in Guayas to verify the presence of a space rock that fell at 04:00 this morning.

The chemical engineer, Holger Naranjo of the Undersecretariat for Control and Nuclear Applications of the Ministry of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources also attended the meteorite inspection.

Precisely the authorities confirmed that it is a space rock. Locals previously showed the size of the rock and the size of the impact.

Using a radiation meter, the rock was scanned, resulting in a range of 0.09 Sievert / hour, which according to the expert is normal and does not represent any risk to life. Criminalistics staff carried out the respective fixing and lifting of the evidence

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Natchez resident spots otherworldly fireball streaking across the sky

Published 4:18 pm Monday, May 11, 2020

For one Natchez resident, a late-night trip out of his house turned into an otherworldly experience when he spotted a bright orange fireball streak across the sky.
“It scared the heck out of me,” Alex Sandel said Monday morning. “It was bright orange, red and spinning.”
Living near Merit Health Natchez, Sandel said he has stepped outside to watch a helicopter take off from the hospital’s helipad Sunday evening at approximately 10:15 when he was startled by the fireball streaking across the sky.

“I was outside waiting for the helicopter to take off when I saw this thing coming,” Sandel said. “It came from the north and went straight south.”
Sandel said the fireball was traveling at a slow enough speed for him to reach his phone to capture an image of the flying object.
“It wasn’t any faster than a jet,” Sandel said.

Monday morning Sandel said he did some research online and believes what he saw was part of a meteorite that was streaking across the sky.
Data collected on the American Meteor Society show that several fireball sightings were made Sunday night in Mississippi and Louisiana between Como, Mississippi, and Harahan, Louisiana, were reported at approximately the same time Sandel reported his fireball sighting. Those sightings are pending confirmation by the AMS.

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Apparent meteor caught on camera over Baton Rouge

May 10, 2020 at 11:41 PM CDT - Updated May 11 at 5:13 AM

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - The American Meteor Society tracked several reports of a possible meteor spotted in the sky over Baton Rouge and other areas of Louisiana.
Video shows what appears to be a large fireball moving quickly across the sky around 8:47 p.m. Sunday, May 10.

The fireball will need to be investigated before being confirmed to be a meteor.

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Fireball Streaking Across Several States

Published: May 14, 2020, 8:51 am

This morning - we've been receiving calls about a bright object, spotted racing across the night sky. The fireball was reported from South Carolina -- all the way south to Tampa.

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‘A bright ball crossed the sky’: Falling METEOR spotted in Siberia (VIDEOS)
19 May, 2020 08:52

Bewildered residents in Russia have witnessed a spectacular glowing meteor shooting across the night sky. The incident was caught on CCTV cameras and was seen from several locations.
The dazzling object was seen travelling over the city of Kansk in western Siberia and several other areas of the Krasnoyarsk Region at around 22:40 local time.

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‘A bright ball crossed the sky’: Falling METEOR spotted in Siberia (VIDEOS)
19 May, 2020 08:52 / Updated 14 hours ago
Bewildered residents in Russia have witnessed a spectacular glowing meteor shooting across the night sky. The incident was caught on CCTV cameras and was seen from several locations.
The dazzling object was seen travelling over the city of Kansk in western Siberia and several other areas of the Krasnoyarsk Region at around 22:40 local time.

Some local media reported that witnesses also heard a “loud bang.” However, top local emergency official Eduard Bille told Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper that everything was quiet.
It literally lasted several seconds; a bright ball crossed the sky and disappeared somewhere near the ground. It was all quiet: no bangs, no blasts, nothing.

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Fireball shock: Meteor booms over England disturbing wildlife with stunning fireball

May 20 2020

RESIDENTS of the UK were stunned when a fireball lit up the night sky, creating such a loud noise that it disrupted wildlife, according to reports.

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Meteor sighting: Fireball lights up skies over middle America in stunning video

A HUGE fireball shot through the skies of middle America, producing a large blast which mesmerised spectators recently.

PUBLISHED: 22:10, Wed, May 20, 2020 | UPDATED: 06:59, Thu, May 21, 2020

The International Meteor Organisation (IMO) received dozens of reports of a fireball, which lit up the skies above Colorado, Wyoming and South Dakota. One person's security camera picked up the sighting, which showed a bright object falling towards Earth.

Brett reported to the IMO: "The feeling of having witnessed this was incredible."
Vivian added: "It was an amazing site [sic] to behold. It appeared and then seemed to disappear for a second Or two and then reappeared it then disappeared again."

An unnamed person said: "Amazing sight! Never seen anything like this before! Most beautiful super bright blue I have ever seen!"

Asteroids and meteors produce a bright explosion of fire when they hit the atmosphere as it is the first time the space rock has ever met resistance.

Air seeps into the pores and cracks of the rock, pushing it apart and causing it to explode.
The IMO said: “Fireballs are meteors that appear brighter than normal.
“Due to the velocity at which they strike the Earth’s atmosphere, fragments larger than one millimetre have the capability to produce a bright flash as they streak through the heavens above.
“These bright meteors are what we call fireballs and they often strike fear and awe for those who witness them.”

While this meteor was small, the bright flash reiterates the need for eyes on the skies to watch out for potential asteroid collisions.
While the chances of a major asteroid hitting Earth are small – NASA believes there is a one in 300,000 chance every year a space rock which could cause regional damage will hit – the devastating prospect is not impossible.
However, there are some plans on the go which could help Earth against potential asteroid strikes.
NASA is currently studying Asteroid Bennu, where its OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft arrived in 2018.

Part of the reason NASA is sending the OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft there is to gather more information about the space rock which is 1,640ft (500m) in length.
NASA fears the asteroid, which has the potential to wipe out a country on Earth, could hit our planet within the next 120 years, with the next close flyby in 2135.
The mission will give vital information on how to deflect asteroids from their collision course with Earth, but NASA reiterates while there is a small chance Earth could be impacted, “over millions of years, of all of the planets, Bennu is most likely to hit Venus".

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Space junk streaks across Australian skies as a bright, flaming fireball

May 22, 2020

Residents of southeastern Australia and Tasmania witnessed a fantastic sight in the sky Friday night, as fireball blazed by overhead.
Thomas Toose, a farmer in Creswick, Victoria, northwest of Melbourne, called the sight "surreal" and told Storyful it "was massive and lasted about 20 seconds."
Assumed, at first glance, to be a meteor - the bright light caused by a chunk of rock or ice plunging into the atmosphere after floating through space for billions of years. Instead, though, it turned out to be something with a more mundane, Earthly origin.

A screencap of the video captured by farmer Thomas Toose of the May 22, 2020 fireball over Victoria, Australia. Insert: a close-up, brighter view. Credit: Thomas Toose/Storyful/Reuters
After scrutinizing the video footage of the fireball, skywatchers and scientists alike noted a few details that set this apart from your typical meteor fireball.
First, it was travelling very slowly by comparison. When a meteoroid enters Earth's atmosphere from space, it is typically travelling at speeds of between 11 and 72 kilometres per second (40,000 km/h to 260,000 km/h). So, the meteor produced appears to flash by in only a few seconds. Often, this isn't even enough time to grab your cellphone and record the event. Only cameras that are already running and pointing the right direction - webcams, security cameras and dashboard cameras - tend to capture them.
Second, the colour of the fireball, as well as the obvious disintegration seen from it, would have been fairly unusual for a meteoroid. Meteor fireballs usually flash bright white, with maybe a slight tinge of colour (blue, green, yellow). The exact colour depends on its speed, the atmospheric gases it is compressing, and what kind of minerals or metals might be vaporizing off the meteoroid's surface. In this case, the fireball is glowing orange-white and is trailing visible flames and smoke.

From left to right, the appearance of the fireball changed from beginning to end, with glowing/flaming debris breaking away as it passed through the air. Credit: Thomas Toose/Storyful/Reuters/Scott Sutherland
Some larger space rocks do break apart as they pass through the air. These fragmentations always follow an extremely bright 'bolide' flash from the object, and the smaller fragments quickly wink out. Here, the debris is still visible for some time after breaking away from the object.

Spokane, Washington, bright fireball captured on security camera.  5/21/2020

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What Was That Bright Green Fireball Falling From the Sky?
Published May 29, 2020 • Updated on May 29, 2020 at 7:08 am

A North Texas family's home security camera was recording when a giant fireball fell from the sky Thursday night.
Samantha Deann Pinson shared the video pointed at her driveway in Burleson, which showed the green ball of light streak across the frame.
"Was that a #meteorite falling to earth somewhere over #Mesquite or Balch Springs, TX? It was bright green and then disappeared as it fell to earth!" one person wrote on Twitter. Other social media users from East Texas and Arkansas reported seeing the bright green ball of light crossing the night sky.

According to NASA, meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere at high speed and burn up, the fireballs or “shooting stars” are called meteors. When a meteoroid survives a trip through the atmosphere and hits the ground, it’s called a meteorite.