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.

Asteroid larger than Empire State Building set to whiz by Earth this weekend

https://www.fox29.com/news/asteroid-larger-than-empire-state-buildi...

FOUR HORSEMEN? Nasa says FOUR asteroids moving at 50,000mph will make close passes of Earth today

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/11762006/asteroids-close-earth-today/

https://www.space.com/meteor-fireball-video-tennessee-june-2020.html
Brilliant fireball lights up skies over Tennessee (video)

June 8 2020
A meteor lit up the night sky over Tennessee and neighboring states late Sunday (June 7), sparking 120 fireball sightings across 12 different states and Canada.
The fireball occurred at 9:42 p.m. EDT (0142 GMT) and blazed a trail over southern Ohio, according to a ground track by the American Meteor Society. It was visible for up to 3.5 seconds from as far south as South Carolina and as far north as Ontario, Canada, AMS reported.

One witness video shows the fireball from Knoxville, Tennessee, as the meteor flares up in a dazzling streak and disappear seconds later.

"Fireball caught over Knoxville, TN last night," AMS representatives wrote on Twitter alongside the video. "This fireball has been [seen] from IL, IN, KY, MD, MI, NC, OH, PA, SC, TN, VA, WV & Ontario!"

The video, which lasts about 2 seconds, was captured by witness Austin R. from a moving vehicle.
We're currently in between major meteor showers at the moment, with the Eta Aquarids of May behind us and August's Perseid meteor display still ahead. But there is still some general meteor activity to look out for. The AMS has a guide of current meteor forecasts from June 6 to June 12 here.

https://www.livescience.com/mysterious-fireball-pilbara.html

Mysterious blue fireball streaks above Western Australia, puzzling astronomers

6/16/2020

The strange fireball was caught on video.

A streak of blue light that flashed across the sky on Monday surprised western Australia's night owls and befuddled the astronomy community.
The blue fireball was seen at 1 a.m. local time on June 15, according to ABC News Pilbara. "It was really a spectacular observation," Glen Nagle, the education and outreach manager at the CSIRO-NASA tracking station in Canberra, told the news agency. Sightings were reported across the remote Pilbara region as well as in the country's Northern Territory and in South Australia, Nagle said. 

Many observers caught the phenomenon on video. The fireball streaks steadily across the sky. At first, it appears orange or yellow, with a short tail streaming behind it. After a few seconds, the bulk of the fireball lights up blue.

Scientists aren't quite sure what object was burning up in the atmosphere to create the brilliant light show, according to ABC News. Some amateur astronomers speculated that the object could be human-made debris, perhaps from a recent rocket launch. But that seems unlikely, Renae Sayers, a research ambassador at Curtin University's Space Science and Technology Centre, told the news agency.

When space junk reenters the atmosphere, "what we tend to see is sort of like crackles and sparks," Sayers said. "This is due to the fact that there is stuff burning up — so you've got solar panels going all over the place, you've got hunks of metal moving around."

The fireball over Pilbara, on the other hand, glided smoothly through the sky. That makes it more likely to be a natural space object. The blue color, according to Nagle, indicates a high iron content. Many meteorites — space rocks that survive their fiery trip through Earth's atmosphere — are high in iron. Some may be the cores of ancient asteroids, according to the Natural History Museum in the U.K.

Sayers said that the fireball looked similar to another spectacular meteor sighted in Australia in 2017. That 2017 fireball whooshed across the sky, but instead of hitting the ground or burning up in the atmosphere, it bounced back into space. The June 15 fireball may have been another grazing encounter, she told ABC News.

Meteors bright enough to be classified as fireballs are rare, but encounters with space rocks are common. According to NASA, about 48.5 tons (44,000 kilograms) of meteor material falls on Earth every day. Most space rocks disintegrate entirely or are the size of a pebble by the time they make it through Earth's atmosphere. Occasionally, one makes a truly spectacular entrance: In February 2013, a meteor that would become known as the Chelyabinsk meteor entered the atmosphere over Russia and exploded in the biggest space blast since the 1908 Tunguska explosion. The explosion blew out windows in buildings in six different cities.

https://www.livescience.com/27182-images-russian-meteor-explosion.html

Three Bright Meteor/ Fireballs Over Puerto Rico Within 90 Minutes.  6/18/2020

The video below was recorded from Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico between 04:40 UTC and 06:08 UTC (00:40 am and 02:08 am). 

https://www.facebook.com/juan.f.martinez.7161/videos/pcb.1016041354...

@NASA & @SpaceForceDoD have signed an agreement to share data from the USSF Space Surveillance Telescope in Australia with NASA's Planetary Defense program. Together, NASA, USSF, & RAAF will find & track near-Earth objects (NEOs) to be ready for any potential impact threat.

https://twitter.com/JimBridenstine

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/250706/20200630/several-witnesse...

Several Witnesses Saw a Massive Fireball Streak Across the Night Sky of Southern US
30 June 2020, 4:29 am EDT

In the early morning of June 19, in several southern US states, including Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, several eyewitnesses reported the same thing: a bright flash in the sky followed by a booming sound.
What they saw was a massive fireball streaking over the sky in a breathtaking astronomical event.

A massive fireball in the sky
According to a report by BGR, the fireball was quite massive, which is why it was visible across several states in the southern United States. And now, scientists are compiling all the reports from the regions where it was visible.

Experts from the American Meteorological Society (AMS) have already compiled nearly two dozen reports of this single event as they are tasked with tracking every sighting of various objects in the sky across the country.
For those who weren't lucky enough to see the massive fireball, AMS was able to acquire a couple of videos that are now available to view so you can at least see what the lucky stargazers have seen. There's also a single photo from the same event taken by one of the witnesses.

Caught on Camera
Based on the video that is now uploaded on YouTube, it's hard to miss the fireball if you're outside as the sky glowed quite brightly when the fireball streaked through the sky.
Additionally, it lasted for a good few seconds, and if we're to look at the compilation from the AMS, eyewitnesses would say it lasted around five seconds or so.
In the video, the fireball glowed a bright green glow, and after a second or two, it exploded and burned brighter before the light faded in a couple of heartbeats.
Eyewitnesses even heard a booming sound, which they described as a "cannon," as the space rock exploded into tiny pieces. And if some of those small rocks have survived the nasty fall from space into Earth's atmosphere, they might have reached the surface.
It won't be surprising that some meteorite hunters have begun the search for even a tiny piece of the space rock and with plans to offer it to experts or museums for an extra buck.

Breaking into tiny pieces

One witness from Oklahoma even said to the AMS that he saw the giant fireball break into two pieces right after it exploded in the atmosphere. He was also able to capture the event which was published by the AMS. Fortunately, there weren't any reports of damages or injuries that occurred from the event.
A few days before the event in the southern US, witnesses from western Australia were also able to see a fireball in the sky, which some were also able to capture a video of. According to experts, the fireball might have been a distant asteroid.
Earlier this month, a huge asteroid also zoomed in between the Earth and the Moon, which is exceptionally close and might have caused a catastrophe in the event it collided with the planet. In a past report by Tech Times, experts were only able to discover the asteroid a couple of days after it passed by us.

Two planes forced to land, one after hitting a "bird", the other after a window cracked.  Published July 7, 2020

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8497929/Plane-carrying-178...

Delta flight makes emergency landing in NYC with mysterious front-end damage

https://6abc.com/travel/delta-flight-makes-emergency-landing-with-f...

https://www.krqe.com/news/new-mexico/fireball-reportedly-flies-acro...

Fireball reportedly flies across Hobbs sky

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1314166/fireball-uk-meteor-a...

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Giant fireball seen streaking across Colorado sky

July 28 2020

A giant fireball soared across the night sky just west of Denver on Tuesday evening, surely sending chills and confusion down the viewers' spines.

9NEWS shared a video of the fireball captured by Erik Velez. It has been revealed to be what scientist Naomi Paquette is describing as "a bright meteor, a large chunk of space rock that’s falling through the earth’s atmosphere." 

In the video, the stargazers can be heard gasping while saying, "What is that? Oh my god," as a blazing bright fireball streaks across the night sky.

While it may seem strange, the giant fireball was likely caused by the peak of two meteor showers, the Alpha Capricornids (active from July 3rd to August 15th), and Southern Delta Aquariids (active from July 12th to August 23rd). The double peak of the showers, from Tuesday evening into the early morning hours of Wednesday, could explain the rare phenomenon.

These meteors may have also even left some debris behind in some areas of Golden. Read more about that here with 9NEWS.

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/ufo-fireball-seen-in...

UFO? Fireball seen in Minnesota sky for 'about 3 minutes'

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13658339

Like a full moon: 2nd fireball since July 2 dazzles Japan’s skies

August 22, 2020 at 16:45 JST

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1327402/fireball-video-usa-w...

Fireball BOOMS over USA: 'Most incredible thing I have ever seen in the sky'

PUBLISHED: 22:32, Tue, Aug 25, 2020

A FIREBALL which was seen across four different states in the US has been described as "the most incredible thing I have ever seen in the sky".

PUBLISHED: 22:32, Tue, Aug 25, 2020

Residents of Missouri, Illinois, Iowa and Michigan all reported seeing a bright fireball blasting through the sky on August 19. Stunned onlookers spotted the astronomical phenomenon, and headed in their droves to the website of the International Meteor Organisation (IMO) to report their sightings.

Chris said: "It came straight down on a vertical trajectory and slowed down as it approached the tops of the tree line, very bright green with bright white sparks coming off it. Amazing sighting!

Timothy added: "It was so bright that we could see it from inside the house with all the lights on.

"It lasted long enough to alert another person to turn around and look at it and they saw it for several seconds."

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.

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/10/01/flash-of-light-in-the-sky/

Events in 2020  5489-2020 KML

We received 38 reports about a fireball seen over Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina on Thursday, October 1st 2020 around 04:08 UT.

https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2020/5489

and another:

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FIREBALL FLASHES THROUGH THE SKY NEAR BARRIE

https://barrie.ctvnews.ca/fireball-flashes-through-the-sky-near-bar...

Thursday, October 1, 2020 11:51AM EDT

BARRIE, ONT. -- Dashcam video captured the moment a suspected meteor blazed across the sky near Barrie.

"Did you see that!" one person is heard saying as the bright light flashed briefly in the dark sky.

The vehicle occupants that witnessed the fireball were travelling south on Highway 400 around 6:30 Wednesday morning near Highway 89 by the Cookstown Tanger Outlet Mall.

Dashcam video captured the moment a suspected meteor blazed across the sky near Barrie.

"Did you see that!" one person is heard saying as the bright light flashed briefly in the dark sky.

The vehicle occupants that witnessed the fireball were travelling south on Highway 400 around 6:30 Wednesday morning near Highway 89 by the Cookstown Tanger Outlet Mall.

and another:

https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/oh-cuyahoga/the-stor...

The story behind the fireball that lit up the sky Wednesday morning

CLEVELAND — A bright flash of light streaked across the pre-dawn sky on Wednesday morning. A meteor, or small piece of space rock, struck the Earth's atmosphere at 6:24 a.m. EDT. The bright flash was observed at over 700 locations in 15 states. Sightings of this shooting star came in from the big cities along the East Coast, as far west as Chicago and Michigan, and as far south as South Carolina. Needless to say, it got a lot of attention.

Based on these reports, scientists estimate any leftover chunks of this celestial visitor likely landed somewhere in Eastern Ohio, just south of Youngstown. The image shows the likely landing location of any small chunk of rock, somewhere between Salem in Columbiana County and East Liverpool.

"Based on previous, I would estimate size, something which would fit on your hand," said Jay Reynolds, a professor in the Physics department at Cleveland State University.

He also believes this shooting star likely contained magnesium based on the observed brightness.

Meteor showers are a common sight around the world. Most shooting stars are the size of a grain of sand. Some, however rarely, can be much larger and more destructive.

Back in 2013, a meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia. The loud explosion blew out every pane of glass in the city resulting in 1,400 injuries. That meteor was estimated to be 56 feet in diameter, weighing 10,000 metric tons.

https://witl.com/video-green-fireball-blows-through-the-skies-above...

A meteor-like object green in color shot through the state of Michigan earlier today. Spotted by residents in Detroit, Lansing and even Grand Rapids, the green colored fireball shot over our state in a matter of seconds before it hurled itself through six states.

The green speedy object was caught on video by one observer.

Astronomers are guessing its a nickel based fireball.  In Meteor terminology, a fireball is defined as  a meteor brighter than the planet Venus. Sometimes mistaken for a Bolide, which is the light emitted from a meteoroid or asteroid as it explodes in the atmosphere, the fireball doesn't explode but is so bright it appears as if it is exploding. Many witnesses reported expecting to hear an explosion after it shot through the skies above them.

Several thousand fireball-like meteors occur in earth's atmosphere almost daily so its quite shocking that they are not reported more often. Fireballs during daylight and over vast amounts of uninhabited oceans and rural areas are probably the reasons they are not reported more often.

You can report it to the American Meteor Society who make a living collecting meteor reports. Their goal is to get multiple reports and then be able to assemble a trajectory path that the fireball has taken.  Don't be alarmed if you hear a huge noise accompanied by the sighting.  Sonic booms and electrophonic sounds are all to familiar with the passing of larger fireballs.

https://www.newsweek.com/meteorite-mexico-hurricane-delta-earthquak...

Meteorite Lights up Sky Above Mexico As Hurricane Delta Hits and Earthquakes Strike Country

10/7/20 AT 12:23 PM EDT

A 

fireball was spotted in the night sky above north-eastern Mexico on Tuesday, as Hurricane Delta made landfall in the Yucatán Peninsula and several minor earthquakes struck the country.

The fireball was most visible above the states of Nuevo León, Coahuila and Tamaulipas, which border the U.S., around 10:14 p.m. local time, according to the Global Atmospheric Monitoring Agency—part of Mexico's Institute of Geological and Atmospheric Research.

Some amazed eyewitnesses—as well as some security cameras, webcams and doorbell camss—managed to capture footage of the fireball as it blazed through the atmosphere

Cameras in Monterrey—the state capital of Nuevo León—captured images of the fireball briefly illuminating the night sky above the city

https://twitter.com/webcamsdemexico/status/1313718598846869505?ref_...

Fireballs are unusually bright meteors—the streaks of light that appear in the sky when small pieces of asteroids or comets enter the Earth's atmosphere and burn up. If these objects avoid completely disintegrating and manage to reach the ground they are known as meteorites

Local reports suggest that the meteorite fell near Ciudad Victoria, the capital of the state of Tamaulipas. Mexican news outlet Milenio reported that the meteorite set fire to bushes in the area where it fell, with local firefighter teams responding to the incident.

The fall of the meteorite came as Hurricane Delta made landfall in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, bringing winds of around 110 miles per hour.

The Category 2 hurricane struck the coast in between the popular tourist resorts of Cancún and Playa del Carmen, accordion to the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC.)

The NHC has said that Delta will bring a "life-threatening storm surge" and "dangerous winds" to parts of the northern Yucatán into early Wednesday morning. This could lead to significant flash flooding that will affect the northern part of the peninsula through early Thursday.

After passing the Yucatán, Delta is predicted to move northwards toward the U.S. Gulf Coast as it grows in size, "where there is an increasing likelihood of life-threatening storm surge and dangerous hurricane-force winds beginning Friday, particularly for portions of the Louisiana coast," the NHC said.

In addition to these natural phenomena, Mexico was also struck by several earthquakes on Wednesday, with 14 measuring 4.0 or more in magnitude on the Richter scale. The most powerful of these, which struck in the southern state of Oaxaca, had a magnitude of 4.3, which is classified as a "light" earthquake. These are often felt but only cause minor damage.

Mexico is one of the most seismically active countries in the world, located at the meeting point of three large tectonic plates—vast chunks of the Earth's crust. The movement of these plates leads to earthquakes and volcanic activity.

In fact, in the past three months Mexico has experienced an average of just over 30 earthquakes above magnitude 1.0 every day, according to Volcano Discovery.

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL — FIREBALL FROM NIBIRU  10/14/2020

"Mothership Underbelly" in OREGON Sky! | Possible Debris Field Spotted From ISS Near Earth — MrBB333

https://youtu.be/HcP2UhN8WvA

https://www.rt.com/news/504292-puerto-rico-fireball-ufo-google-loon/

WATCH: Colorful fireball blazes across Puerto Rican skies as Google Loon project sparks hundreds of UFO reports

As a fireball lit up the night sky in Puerto Rico, hundreds of people notified the authorities about strange objects flying above the Caribbean island.

The impressive light show took place on Tuesday night, as the Orionid meteor shower was peaking. The stunning spectacle was captured by photographer Frankie Lucena, who shared footage of the incident on social media on Wednesday. 

The skywatcher speculated that the fireball was a Taurid – a type of meteor named after their radiant point in the constellation Taurus.

The skies above the unincorporated US territory have been a hive of activity in recent days, as the Caribbean Astronomical Society has reported that hundreds of Puerto Ricans have reported seeing unexplained “white dots” in the sky during daylight hours.

The society was inundated with people seeking answers, and many even managed to photograph the peculiar objects, which were described as akin to “bright planets.” 

An investigation subsequently revealed that the “planets” were actually balloons from Project Loon – a development from Google’s parent company, Alphabet. The network of WiFi-equipped helium balloons aims to expand broadband access on the ground, with the added benefit of boosting Google’s information-collection capabilities in the sky.

© Sociedad de Astronomia del Caribe

“We are totally sure that what was seen in the sky were these balloons, since we even managed to capture photos through telescopes, at a time when the naked eye could see the same white dots that many saw,” the Caribbean Astronomical Society said in a statement.

and another:

https://www.juneauempire.com/news/it-looked-like-fireworks-until-it...

‘It looked like fireworks, until it split into four dots’: Fireball in the sky over Alaska

Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire.

• Friday, October 23, 2020 10:10am

Katie Kangas operates a bed-and-breakfast in Ruby, Alaska. On the morning of Oct. 15, she turned to look out her picture window, toward the cabin next door. She was waiting for her client to switch the light on, at which point she would step out and deliver his breakfast.

Staring out into the darkness, she and her husband Ivan saw “an enormous ball of light in the sky to the west. It was moving north to south, and was quite big.”

A few hundred miles northwest, Daisy Sours was standing outside in Selawik, Alaska, at about 7:30 that morning. She saw something she never had before.

“It looked like fireworks, until it split into four dots,” she said.

At villages in northwestern and central Alaska, from McGrath to Wainwright, people saw what scientists think was a meteorite — a rock falling from space burning up and breaking apart in the thick air surrounding Earth.

David Fee thinks it was a bolide, a fiery meteor that exploded in the atmosphere, probably above the quiet spruce swamps east of Kaltag and south of Galena.

Fee is head of the infrasound program at UAF’s Geophysical Institute. Infrasound is low-frequency noise; elephants might be able to hear it, but our ears don’t work in that range.

Scientists detect infrasound signals with microphones on spidery legs. The stations are peppered all over Alaska.

Those sensitive instruments, maintained by scientists with the Wilson Alaska Technical Center, Alaska Volcano Observatory and the Alaska Earthquake Center, allow researchers to monitor air-pressure changes, as well as low-frequency sounds.

Since the 100-plus stations were installed all over Alaska, in Antarctica and on humid islands in large expanses of blue salt water, scientists have detected nuclear explosions beneath China from as far away as Fairbanks.

Helping determine compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty is a large part of the Wilson Alaska Technical Center’s existence, but scientists have found the infrasound networks valuable for other things.

Fee, who is also a researcher with the Alaska Volcano Observatory, finds infrasound useful for capturing the explosive roar of volcanoes. Scientists have also detected the aurora borealis stirring the thin air above us, and the air disturbed by far-off mine explosions.

And, it turns out, infrasound is also a good tool for measuring the path of space rocks screaming through the 30-mile shell of gases surrounding our planet. An infrasound network on the UAF campus in Fairbanks recorded a clean signal of the air-pressure waves from the Oct. 15 bolide over western Alaska.

“I typically don’t work on meteors, but they are often really nice infrasound sources to help better understand the performance of our networks, and I think provide valuable information on meteors and bolides themselves,” Fee said.

Stations from all over Alaska helped Fee and his coworkers determine that the space rocks from the mid-October visitor to Earth are probably somewhere north of the upper Innoko River.

The chunks and nuggets — coated with a black “fusion crust,” the result of sizzling friction with air molecules — have now cooled to the touch. Those bits of space are now buried by snow within a quiet portion of the third rock

from the sun.

https://www.newsweek.com/fireball-meteor-alaska-volcano-alarms-1542128

Huge Fireball Meteor over Alaska Sets off Volcano Warning System 360 Miles Away

10/26/20 AT 10:48 AM EDT

A huge "fireball" meteor that lit up skies across west Alaska also set off newly installed sensors for detecting volcanic activity, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has said.

The event, which took place on October 15, triggered six of the sensors' alarms at a new monitoring station on the Kenai Peninsula. The sensors are built to detect low-frequency sound waves in the atmosphere during volcanic activity, but in this case they picked up waves coming from the meteor that had streaked across the sky around 360 miles away.

In a Facebook post, the USGS said the meteor also triggered an alarm at Mount Spurr—a large, active volcano that sits around 80 miles from Anchorage that last erupted in 1992. However, as other monitoring systems also picked up on the waves, "it quickly became clear that this was not activity at Mount Spur," the post said.

Scientists with the USGS Alaska Volcano Observatory worked with researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute to investigate the cause. They found the meteor passed over Alaska around 40 miles from the Athabaskan community of Kaltag, which sits on the Yukon River.

In a blog post for the American Geophysical Union, UAF science writer Ned Rozell said witnesses reported the fireball in regions hundreds of miles apart. One resident of Ruby described it as an "enormous ball of light in the sky," saying it was moving north to south. Another resident said it looked like "fireworks" that split into four dots.

David Fee, head of the infrasound program at UAF's Geophysical Institute and researcher with the AVO, said he believes the meteor exploded somewhere east of Kaltag. "I typically don't work on meteors, but they are often really nice infrasound sources to help better understand the performance of our networks, and I think provide valuable information on meteors and bolides themselves," he said

Meteors are small bits of space rock that enter Earth's atmosphere. When they do, they burn up, producing a bright light that streaks across the sky. If any rock survives, it falls to Earth and becomes a meteorite. Fee said they believe the meteorite from the event probably hit the ground somewhere north of the Innoko River and that the remains will now be buried with snow.

Over a dozen meteors are thought to hit Earth's atmosphere every day. So far this year, the American Meteor Society has recorded more than 570 events where there were more than five sightings. This includes a fireball passing over California on October 23, which was reported by 81 people. Witnesses described the fireball as being almost as bright as the moon. One onlooker said it was the "most amazing" thing they had ever seen

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1355132/fireball-video-meteo...

Fireball booms across US on Halloween - 'Brightest shooting star of my life'

A FIREBALL which some have described as the biggest and brightest they had ever seen boomed over northeastern USA on Halloween.

UPDATED: 14:35, Mon, Nov 2, 2020

The spooky season kicked off with a bang on Halloween when residents across nine states witnessed a huge fireball. The meteor was so big and bright that it could be seen in the north of Michigan, all the way down to Georgia, more than 900 kilometres away.

Witnesses described the booming fireball as having a plethora of colours, mainly blue, white and green, coming from the main body as it hit Earth's atmosphere.

Almost 200 people flocked to the International Meteor Organisation (IMO) to report their sightings.

One video captured by a security camera shows the fireball seemingly getting bigger and bigger as it approaches the surface before simply disappearing.

Shawna added: "Seemed closer than any other falling star or fireball I’d ever seen.

"Had a white to light yellow head with a green to blue tail and seemed to have a white streak behind it but not a long one.

"I thought it was a firecracker at first but it didn’t make sense to be falling and I never heard a noise."

Shae reported to the IMO: "I have never seen anything like it in my life!"

Stephanie said: "Very bright green light streaked across the sky not very high in altitude, larger than any other shooting star I've seen."

Tracy added: "Looked like the brightest shooting star in my life."

Rhonda stated: "Never saw anything like this - it was big, bright, & colourful.

"Compared to other shooting stars or meteor showers, this looked much closer. Only lasted about 4 seconds, then simply vanished!"

Fireballs are the result of meteors hitting the atmosphere.

https://thewest.com.au/technology/science/massive-fireball-and-soni...

Massive fireball and sonic boom creates shock waves across the Wheatbelt

Mon, 2 November 2020 6:21PM

Sunday night’s fireball and sonic boom has been described as sounding like “someone’s meth lab just blew up”, with experts crediting the loud boom to a small piece of asteroid hitting the atmosphere.

Experts from Curtin University’s Desert Fireball Network told the ABC the fireball — reported east of Perth at 8.09pm on Sunday — said the sonic boom was so loud the sound would have been heard as far as 50km from the fireball.

"Sonic booms are quite common for rocks that make it quite deep in the atmosphere," Dr Hadrien Devillepoix told the ABC.

"They pack a big punch and create a kind of shock wave. That's what people hear.”

He said the fireball, which was was expected to have travelled at about 10-20 kilometres per second, would have most likely landed to the east of Perth.

"Not many people actually saw the fireball directly.

"We got it on one camera — all the way down in Katanning in the Wheatbelt."

Residents from Chidlow told the ABC it sounded like “something was blowing up”.

“It was loud enough for us to sit, look at each other, and look outside to see what it was,” Tony Ettridge said.

“We thought, jokingly, 'someone's meth lab just blew up'.”

and another:

https://www.wsfa.com/2020/11/03/video-bright-fireball-meteor-confir...

VIDEO: Bright fireball meteor confirmed over Central Alabama

A bright fireball streaked across the night skies of Alabama just before 6 p.m. Sunday evening

TALLADEGA, Ala. (WSFA) - There were many reports of a mysterious bright greenish-blue object streaking across the Alabama sky just before 6 p.m. on Sunday. Turns out it was a very bright meteor -- often referred to simply as a fireball.

The fireball wasn’t just spotted in Central Alabama; it was seen at multiple locations across Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee.

It was even seen a time or two as far away as Kentucky, Virginia and Florida!

By Tyler Sebree | November 3, 2020 at 9:12 AM CST - Updated November 3 at 9:12 AM

TALLADEGA, Ala. (WSFA) - There were many reports of a mysterious bright greenish-blue object streaking across the Alabama sky just before 6 p.m. on Sunday. Turns out it was a very bright meteor -- often referred to simply as a fireball.

The fireball wasn’t just spotted in Central Alabama; it was seen at multiple locations across Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee.

It was even seen a time or two as far away as Kentucky, Virginia and Florida!

November 1st Alabama Fireball (Source: WSFA 12 News)

According to reports submitted to the American Meteor Society, it was seen burning up in Earth’s atmosphere near Birmingham, Montgomery, Huntsville, Auburn, and Troy just to name a few Alabama cities.

The most concentrated area of reports came in from around Atlanta, Georgia. That’s likely due to the amount of people there that could have witnessed it.

The actual path of the bright meteor was just east of Birmingham.

The starting point of its path was roughly the meeting point of Calhoun, Cherokee and Etowah counties east of Gadsden. It traveled southwest and ended its path at the intersection of U.S. 431 and AL-144 near Alexandria, Ohatchee and Wellington. That’s just north of I-20 and the Anniston/Oxford area.

The “Geometric Impact Point” of the fireball is between downtown Talladega and I-20 in northern Talladega County. That’s essentially where the meteor would have struck Earth’s surface if it survived burning up in the lower atmosphere.

While not likely, it’s possible that small pieces or fragments -- referred to as meteorites -- made it to the surface. These are very rare and can be worth a significant amount of money if confirmed as legitimate.

So...was this a crazy or super rare thing?

Eh, not really. Fireballs happen all the time across the entire planet. As of November 3rd, the American Meteor Society has documented over 6,200 fireball “events"... alone.

It is a bit more on the rare side to have an exceptionally bright meteor zip across the night sky in your home state. It’s even rarer to document it as these fireballs are only visible for a matter of seconds at most. And unfortunately, there’s no way to really predict them to prepare your phones and cameras.

Two meteor showers are bringing shooting stars and fireballs to the night sky this week

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meteor-shower-leonids-taurids-shooting...

https://www.ibtimes.sg/huge-fireball-spotted-over-us-scares-residen...

Huge Fireball Spotted Over US Scares Residents

Witnesses of the fireball sighting claimed that the object that burned up produced green and orange light in the skies

On November 14, a huge fireball streaked across the skies of the United States. The fireball was so bright that it literally scared residents in the area. Soon after the sighting, residents in the area reported the event to the International Meteor Organization (IMO). Most of the people who witnessed the event claimed that the fireball was incredibly big, and it produced huge light in the skies.

"I've seen shooting stars in the past, but this one was much larger than anything I've seen before. It honestly frightened me and my girlfriend," wrote Eric on the IMO website, after reporting the sighting.

Another eyewitness named Ben claimed that the meteor that burned up in the atmosphere could be the biggest shooting star that he has ever seen in his life. These eyewitnesses also claimed that the fireball produced green and orange light in the atmosphere, that lasted only for one or two seconds.

According to space scientists, fireballs are nothing but small meteors and other space bodies that burn up in the skies while entering the earth's atmosphere. According to the International Meteor Organization that was formed in 1998, these fireballs usually appear brighter than normal.

"Fireballs are meteors that appear brighter than normal. Due to the velocity at which they strike the Earth's atmosphere, fragments larger than one millimeter has 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," IMO says on their website.

On the other hand, conspiracy theorists suggest that earth has entered a thick debris field, and it could be the reason behind an increase in meteor entry and asteroid close approaches. These conspiracy theorists believe that this rise in asteroid close approaches could be indicating the arrival of Nibiru, the rogue space body that could cause apocalypse on planet earth.

https://www.somagnews.com/fireball-explodes-over-portugal-at-dawn/

Fireball explodes over Portugal at dawn

November 17, 2020

The Universe, this year, seems to have more frequently responded to requests for “Vem meteoro” – this time, a fireball exploded in the skies south of Portugal at dawn this Monday (16).

The bolide began to be followed by sensors from the Andalusian Astrophysics Institute (IAA-CSIC), and by the astronomical observatories in Calar Alto, Seville and La Hita, Spain, as soon as it entered the Earth’s atmosphere.

The meteor crossed the entire Iberian Peninsula until it exploded over

After entering the atmosphere at 227 thousand kilometers per hour, the friction of the atmosphere with the rock (probably the piece of a comet), caused it to explode, at 60 kilometers of altitude, in a flash seen by the naked eye throughout the south of the country.

The event was captured by numerous cameras, such as the one at the Calar Alto Observatory:

A meteor to call Brazilian

In May this year, a similar meteorite scared residents of the city of Tiros, in Minas Gerais. After searching around the city looking for fragments of the meteor, one of them found a piece of about 400g, which helped to identify the origin of the rock.

Analysis of the fragment revealed that the now-called Tiros meteorite is part of Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in the solar system.

 Remarkable fireball captured breaking up on film | Fox News 

Remarkable fireball captured breaking up on film

The footage was taken roughly 60 miles off the southern Tasmanian coast

An enormous fireball was caught on camera streaking across the night sky in Australia, before breaking up over the Tasman Sea

The footage, captured by the vessel RV Investigator, was taken on Nov. 18, roughly 60 miles off the southern Tasmanian coast, according to a blog post from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). 

"What we saw on reviewing the livestream footage astounded us, the size and brightness of the meteor was incredible," CSIRO Voyage Manager on board, John Hooper, said in the post. "The meteor crosses the sky directly in front of the ship and then breaks up – it was amazing to watch the footage and we were very fortunate that we captured it all on the ship livestream."

'EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORGANIC COMPOUNDS' FOUND IN 2018 MICHIGAN 'FIREBALL'

The livestream, which operates 24/7 from a camera on the RV Investigator, shows the fireball turning a bright green color before it broke apart.

"Over 100 tons of natural space debris enters Earth's atmosphere every day," Glen Nagle from CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, explained in the post. "Most of it goes unseen as it occurs over an unpopulated area like the southern ocean."

"Cameras are everywhere, in our pockets and around our cities, but they have to be pointed in the right place at the right time – RV Investigator was in that place and time," Nagle added.

A small chunk of an asteroid or comet is known as a meteoroid. When it enters Earth's atmosphere, it becomes a meteor, fireball or shooting star. The pieces of rock that hit the ground, valuable to collectors, are called meteorites.

Last month, researchers discovered that a fireball that entered Earth's atmosphere in January 2018 over Michigan contained "extraterrestrial organic compounds." 

In 2019, a separate group of researchers suggested meteorites actually made life possible on Earth. They identified isotopes of selenium in rocks in Earth's mantle and found identical isotope signatures inside certain meteorites, notably those from the outer solar system.

and another:

 A Fireball Of Astounding Brightness And Length Lights Up Night Ski...

A Fireball Of Astounding Brightness And Length Lights Up Night Skies

Observers across central Europe from Germany to Italy were wowed by a meteor burning up in the sky while taking its time falling to its final resting place(s) on Nov. 19.

The American Meteor Society received over 115 sighting reports, many of them centered around the Austrian city of Salzburg, including some dramatic videos and images like the one above.

While most fireball events are fleeting, lasting perhaps a few seconds, this monster grew progressively brighter as it fell to the ground over the course of nearly half a minute.

Several all-sky cameras from the German AllSky7 fireball network caught the event. You can watch the increasingly dramatic compilation below. The cameras with a closer vantage point clearly show the bolide breaking apart into multiple fireballs as it descends and flames out.

Fireball seen during day prompts 911 call 'I thought a plane crashe...

Fireball seen during day prompts 911 call 'I thought a plane crashed'

A FIREBALL which was so bright it could be seen during daylight prompted one person to call the police as she thought there had been a plane crash.

Dec 3 2020

One person even claimed they thought a plane was crashing, while another believed the meteor made contact with the ground.

Angie told the IMO: "I thought maybe a plane crashed and actually called 911 OPP in our area.. I've never seen something like this in the day before, have seen night time versions."

Mike said: "This was a brilliant fireball on a bright sunny day.

Susanne added: "Was out shovelling snow in broad daylight, saw a light which at first I thought was sunlight reflecting off the hydro wire, but it was moving along the wire, then when the meteor ended realised it was a meteor and the trajectory was running along but above the hydro wire.

"It was pretty bright considering it was mid-day and full sunshine."

Lisa said: "It is a bright sunny day and this looked like a close shooting star, clearly visible in the sunshine."

Jennifer added: "This was crazy! It was low to the ground, and appeared like it was going to crash on to Stage Rd in Clarence [New York]."

video in link

Falling meteor causes fireball, flash of light over parts of Ontari...

Falling meteor causes fireball, flash of light over parts of Ontario

December 3, 2020 12:18PM EST

TORONTO -- A meteor travelling an estimated 100,000 kilometers an hour is believed to have fallen into the earth’s atmosphere on Wednesday afternoon, resulting in multiple reports of a bright flash of light above Toronto and some streaks of fire in the sky across southern Ontario.

Around noon, a number of GTA residents reported seeing a fireball trail across the sky while others said they saw a large flash of nearly blinding light.

According to Dr. Denis Vida, a postdoctoral associate with the University of Western Ontario in their physics and astronomy department, a basket-ball sized meteor is believed to have entered the earth’s atmosphere at a 45-degree angle about 50 kilometers north of Syracuse, New York.

Vida said that it’s still too early to know if some pieces of the meteor made it to the ground or if the rock completely disintegrated upon entry. He said the large flash of light seen primarily over Syracuse would have been the result of the meteor being fragmented by the earth’s atmosphere.

“The flash was probably about 10 times brighter than the moon, the full moon,” he said. “At that moment the body either completely disintegrated or lost a lot of mass.”

As of 5 p.m., more than 80 reports were made to the American Meteor Society regarding a fireball seen on Dec. 2.

Those in the United States reportedly heard an audible boom following the event, Vida said.

“Someone called me and said that their house shook so much that they thought a tree fell on the house.”

Vida said that it’s not uncommon for meteors to enter the earth’s atmosphere and that people witness the event generally about once a month on a global scale.

“But locally. It's much rarer.”

and another:

Japan’s fireball meteor captured on camera - Deseret News

“The last burst of light was as bright as the full moon.”

dec 2 2020

On Sunday night, a brightly burning meteor descended through the Earth’s atmosphere over Japan.

The fireball was visible for just a few seconds in the early hours of Sunday. Experts believe small fragments of the meteorite might have reached the ground, The Associated Press reports.

Takeshi Inoue, the director of the Akashi Municipal Planetarium, told Japan’s Kyodo news agency (via CBS), “We believe the last burst of light was as bright as the full moon.”

The spectacle drew massive attention on social media outlets

CBS reports that NHK public television, Japan’s public media organization, stated its weather cameras stationed in the nation’s central prefectures of Aichi and Mie captured the fireball in the southern sky.

The outlet posted this compilation of videos on Twitter on Monday morning:

In addition to NHK and other news outlets, many in western Japan also shared their own videos of the rare sight on their social media accounts.

“The sky went bright for a moment and I felt strange because it couldn’t be lightning,” said one Twitter user who saw the meteor. “I felt the power of the universe!” via CBS.

“That was scary” said another who tweeted a video of the light burst captured while driving.

and another:

People in Michigan, 4 other states see midday fireball arc across t...

People in Michigan, 4 other states see midday fireball arc across the sky

Another meteor? More booms heard, fireballs spotted in Upstate NY

https://www.syracuse.com/news/2020/12/another-meteor-more-booms-hea...

Did you hear a boom last night (Dec 7) in Upstate New York? Did you see a streak of light cut across the night sky? If so, you aren’t alone.

Witnesses from Virginia to New York to Quebec reported fireball sightings to the American Meteor Society on Monday night. One sighting came from Oswego County.

A video taken by a doorbell camera in the city of Oswego shows a flash of light in the night sky. The flash was followed by a loud, resounding boom. The video, taken at 9:21 p.m. near Miller Street, was provided by a witness and posted on the meteor society’s website.

AMS event #7444-2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyTlq1xVyhE

The reports came less than a week after a meteor exploded over Central New York. The house-shaking, sonic boom sounded like an explosion, startling residents in Central New York and beyond.

Three of Monday night’s fireball reports came from Upstate New York. They were spaced about three hours apart, according to the society’s logs: 7:31 p.m., 8:30 p.m. and 9:20 p.m.

The biggest string of fireball reports happened at 7:31 p.m. The meteor society received 155 reports from witnesses — mostly in Ontario and Quebec — who saw a fireball in the sky, according to the meteor society’s logs. Witnesses in the Catskills and Albany area also reported spotting a fiery light in the sky.

An hour later, a second fireball event was reported to the meteor society. Most of the 28 witness reports were in Pennsylvania. But one fireball sighting was made southeast of Cortland, according to the society’s logs.

The fireball sighting in Oswego was the last submitted to the meteor society last night. So far, only one witness reported hearing a boom and seeing a flash of light.

BRAZIL, Sao Paulo FIREBALL 12/15/2020

A fireball was sighted across the sky in the interior of the state of São Paulo on the night of Tuesday, December 15th. The space rock entered the Earth's atmosphere at 21h35min BRT, when it was captured by the cameras of stations RCP3, RCP4 and CRP1, located in the cities of Nhandeara and Indiaporã, both in SP and by another 5 cameras of Clima ao Vivo in São Paulo and Paraná. Check out the video:

http://www.bramonmeteor.org/bramon/bola-de-fogo-cruza-o-ceu-do-inte...

Meteor Fireball. Avila Beach, California. Feb 10, 2021.

Event #2021-778 AMS event #778-2021

Picture Credit: Dan B.
https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_photo/view_photo?photo_...

Mars striking back? Extremely bright meteor ignites wild banter on social media (VIDEOS) 3/1/2021

“I first thought it was a bright star or plane, then it got bigger & faster, then a huge flash lit up the sky & it burst into a massive tail of orange sparks trailing behind like a giant firework!”wrote one astonished stargazer.

https://www.rt.com/uk/516847-british-skies-glow-meteor-shower/

Rare daytime fireball meteor creates massive sonic boom over UK

https://www.livescience.com/uk-daytime-fireball-meteor-sonic-boom.html

A rare daytime fireball meteor triggered a loud sonic boom across parts of the United Kingdom and France over the weekend.

The sonic boom occurred at 2:50 p.m. local time on Saturday (March 20) and was reportedly heard in southwest England, Wales and northern France, according to Sky News. At first, most people assumed that the noise was the result of fighter jets, but the Ministry of Defence quikcly announced that this couldn't have been the case, according to the BBC.

However, a handful of people on Twitter said they had witnessed a bright flash of light across the sky at the same time, and thanks to satellite images, it was later confirmed to be a fireball meteor, according to the BBC.

The meteor was a bolide — the largest and brightest type of fireball meteor — and would have needed to be "very large" to be visible during the day, Richard Kacerek, from the UK Meteor Observation Network of amateur astronomers, told the BBC.

On Feb. 28, another large fireball meteor lit up the night sky over the U.K. and was seen by a potentially record-breaking number of people, Live Science previously reported. 

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Four fireballs spotted during the week-end

According to the American Meteor Society (AMS), the daylight fireball was actually just one of the fireball events this past weekend. There were also fireball events in Tampa Bay and Pennsylvania. Another was also observed in California, Nevada and Arizona.

Daylight Fireball over the English Channel on Friday, 19th

Thanks to our European partners Vigie-Ciel (FR) and UKMON (UK), we received 125 reports so far about a daylight fireball event that occurred over the English Channel on Saturday, March 20th 2021 around 14:50 UT. The AMS #2021-978 event was mainly seen from West of France (Brittany, Normandy and Parisian region) and from South West England and Wales.

Many witness from the UK heard a sonic boom and Soundcloud user Joseph Stockwell had the chance to record the event:

https://soundcloud.com/joseph-stockwell/explosion

Fireball over Tampa Bay, on Saturday 20th, 8:30 PM EDT

Even though there was significant cloud cover, 60 of eyewitnesses in middle Florida reported us seeing a bright fireball around 8:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time (2021-03-21 00:30 Universal Time). An analysis of these reports indicated that the meteor was first seen at an altitude of 52 miles above Tampa Bay, moving a little south of west at 48,000 miles per hour. It ablated 33 miles over the Gulf of Mexico after traveling 39 miles through the atmosphere (study: NASA from the AMS reports).

80 eyewitness reports from California, Nevada & Arizona – Saturday 20th

Few hours later, at least 80 people (mainly from California but also from Nevada and Arizona) reported a slow fireball seen between Las Vegas, NV and Bakersfield CA around 7:50 PM Pacific Daylight Time (2021-03-21 02:50 Universal Time). Analysis of these reports indicates that the AMS event #1787-2021 was first spotted 60 miles above Church Dome in the Sequoia National Forest northeast of Bakersfield. It moved south of east at 86,000 miles per hour before ablating 43 miles above Goldstone, traveling a total distance of 87 miles in just under 4 seconds (study: NASA from the AMS reports)..

 E. Rosen from Solana Beach caught the event on this door bell cam:

Bright fireball over Pennsylvania, on Sunday March 21st, 0:30 AM EDT

Last but not least, we received more than 240 reports (and counting) about another fireball spotted over Pennsylvania on Sunday March 21st, 0:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time (04:30 Universal Time). The event has mainly been seen from Pennsylvania, but we also received reports from Connecticut, Washington DC, Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and from Ontario and Québec.

A analysis lead by NASA shows that the object first became visible 55 miles (88 km) above the town of Greenstone, near the Pennsylvania / Maryland border. Moving northwest at 51,000 miles per hour (23 km/s), the fireball traversed 38 miles (61 km) through the atmosphere before fragmenting 28 miles (45 km) above the Pennsylvania town of Newburg. The orbit of the object and the brightness of the event (roughly that of the gibbous Moon) indicate that the fireball was caused by an asteroidal fragment weighing 7 pounds (3 kg) and about 5 inches (13 cm) in diameter.

Below is a quick compilation of some of the videos we received about this event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN0HK27x3f4

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Sources:  https://www.amsmeteors.org/2021/03/four-fireballs-spotted-during-th...

                https://www.livescience.com/uk-daytime-fireball-meteor-sonic-boom.html

Fireball above Salem Oregon 3-25-2021 @9:00 pm

Source: https://www.facebook.com/mikthrmn/posts/10218851780750533

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New Zealand Fireball captured at beach. April 2021 

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Bright green fireball crashes into Merapi volcano, Indonesia (video and pictures)

https://strangesounds.org/2021/06/fireball-crashes-merapi-volcano-i...

Chinese researchers propose deflecting 'Armageddon' asteroids with rockets

BEIJING, July 7 (Reuters) - Chinese researchers want to send more than 20 of China's largest rockets to practice turning away a sizable asteroid - a technique that may eventually be crucial if a killer rock is on a collision course with Earth.

The idea is more than science fiction. Sometime between late 2021 to early 2022, the United States will launch a robotic spacecraft to intercept two asteroids relatively close to Earth.

When it arrives a year later, the NASA spacecraft will crash-land on the smaller of the two rocky bodies to see how much the asteroid's trajectory changes. It will be humanity's first try at changing the course of a celestial body.

At China's National Space Science Center, researchers found in simulations that 23 Long March 5 rockets hitting simultaneously could deflect a large asteroid from its original path by a distance 1.4 times the Earth's radius.

Their calculations are based on an asteroid dubbed Bennu, orbiting the sun, which is as wide as the Empire State Building is tall. It belongs to a class of rocks with the potential to cause regional or continental damage. Asteroids spanning more than 1 km would have global consequences.

The science center cited a recently published study in Icarus, a journal on planetary science.

Long March 5 rockets are key to China's near-term space ambitions - from delivering space station modules to launching probes to the Moon and Mars. China has successfully launched six Long March 5 rockets since 2016, with the last one causing some safety concerns as its remnants reentered the atmosphere in May.

"The proposal of keeping the upper stage of the launch rocket to a guiding spacecraft, making one large 'kinetic impactor' to deflect an asteroid, is a rather nice concept," said Professor Alan Fitzsimmons from the Astrophysics Research Centre at Queen's University Belfast.

"By increasing the mass hitting the asteroid, simple physics should ensure a much greater effect," Fitzsimmons told Reuters, although, he added, the actual operation of such a mission needs to be studied in greater detail.

Current estimates show there is roughly a 1% chance a 100-metre-wide asteroid would strike Earth in the next 100 years, said Professor Gareth Collins at Imperial College London.

"Something the size of Bennu colliding is about 10 times less likely," Collins said.

Altering an asteroid's path presents a lower risk than blasting the rock with nuclear explosives, which may create smaller fragments without changing their course, scientists say.

https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/chinese-researchers-propo...

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Three fireballs soar through the skies of Maldonado,Uruguay

Bright blue fireball caught on videos over Colorado

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bright-blue-fireball-caught-on-vi...

More than 40 people reported a fireball sighting Sunday morning (Oct. 3), mainly over Colorado. The fireball was also seen in Wyoming and New Mexico and 12 people submitted videos to the American Meteor Society. 

Another video, taken by Josh Ellis in Evergreen, Colorado, was shared with CBS Denver. Ellis said the fireball was so bright, it charged his solar lights.

"Everything was pitch dark, and all of a sudden it lit up as if it was a brightly lit moon," said Doug Robinson, who captured video of the fireball over Boulder, Colorado.

Fireballs are bright meteors categorized as brighter than the planet Venus, according to the society, a nonprofit that monitors meteors. 

About six people described hearing a boom during the Colorado fireball sighting, a society employee told CBS Denver. 

Chris Peterson, who works at the Cloudbait Observatory in the central Colorado Rocky Mountains, said the fireball spotted on Sunday was "descending very deep." 

"Ten or 20 miles may not seem very close to the ground, but when we think about typical burning stars, we're seeing things that are burning up 60 to 70 miles high," Peterson told CBS Denver. The observatory also recorded the fireball..."

"..Last week, NASA said a fireball fell over the North Carolina coast at about 32,000 miles per hour. It was one of at least five fireballs seen over the U.S. in the same night. 

The American Meteor Society received 148 fireball reports from Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia and Virginia, and the fireball in North Carolina had the largest group of eyewitness accounts, with more than 80 people reporting it. The fireball was captured in at least two different videos. .."

NASA’s DART Mission Will Intentionally Crash A Spacecraft Into A Small Asteroid To Test Planetary Defense Capabilities
On Nov. 23 at 10:21 p.m. PST/ Nov. 24 at 1:21 a.m. EST, NASA will be launching its first-ever mission to redirect an asteroid. This asteroid is not a danger to Earth, but NASA is ready to test planetary defense capabilities for the future; no super powers or drilling teams needed. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft will be headed towards the asteroid Didymos and its small moon and impact target, Dimorphos. DART will intentionally collide with Dimorphos to alter the path of this small asteroid around the larger asteroid Didymos. NASA’s goal with DART is for us to be prepared with a planetary defense capability if an asteroid is ever discovered to be on a collision course with Earth in the future.
Small fragments of asteroids, from pebble-sized to person-sized, hit the Earth every day. Dimorphos is about the height of the Washington Monument (but much bulkier). An asteroid this big could cause severe damage if it were to collide with our planet. No known asteroid poses an impact threat to Earth for the next 100 years, but the danger from asteroids not yet discovered is still unknown. The DART mission will be the first of its kind to alter the path of an asteroid so we can observe how a real asteroid responds to a deflection attempt, should we ever need to deflect one.

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13985

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METEORITE burn over Cadiz, Spain, turning night in daylight for a few seconds.
Meteorite seen over Cadiz, Spain, Friday, October 14, 2022.
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https://www.kcra.com/article/nevada-county-man-wonders-meteorite-de...

Heard a big bang': Nevada County man wonders if meteorite destroyed his house

The Taurids meteor shower was set to peak this weekend but it's unclear what caused the house fire

  

Updated: 6:57 PM PDT Nov 5, 2022

Michelle Bandur   

Reporter

NEVADA COUNTY, Calif. —

Northern California officials are looking into if the bright ball of light seen in the sky Friday night is a meteorite that landed on and destroyed a Nevada County home.

Witnesses came from all over the region following the path of the bright ball in the sky to see where it landed and that path might have led to Dustin Procita's home. He was inside the house with his two dogs when he said something hit his home and started a fire.

"I heard a big bang," he said. "I started to smell smoke. I went onto my porch and it was completely engulfed in flames."

Procita lives in a quiet, rural area of rolling hills where cattle graze.

He said the area is home to multi-generational cattle farmers and ranchers. He had just fed the cows and sat on the couch listening to music when it hit his home.

What is in the sky? Video shows fireball tumbling down in Northern California

He managed to save his rat terrier dog and tried to get back inside for his other family dog, but couldn't save him. The dog died in the fire.

"I tried to go around to the windows but fire and smoke was dumping through and I couldn’t see inside," Procita said.

Penn Valley Fire Department Captain Josh Miller said they had a call around 7:30 p.m. for a structure fire but because of the secluded location, knew they would have a firefight on their hands.

"Wide, open spaces and this was out on a farm, a cattle ranch area with not much around it," Miller said.

His firefighters, along with Smartsville Fire Department and CalFire, battled the flames for several hours.

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It appears the bright ball of light captured on car and home videos landed in the middle of nowhere. Procita believes a meteor landed on his house.

"I always watched meteor showers as a kid but I didn't want them landing in my yard or through my roof," he said.

Miller said he didn't see the bright ball in the sky.

"Everyone I talked to said it was a flaming ball falling from the sky and landed in that general area," Miller said.

Miller said witnesses started arriving on the scene and are looking into if a meteorite caused the fire in the rural area.

"I had one individual tell me about it first and I put it in the back of my mind but then more people — 2, 3, 4 — started coming in and talking about it," he said.

Procita and his wife said they will pick up the pieces and realize maybe the odds are in their favor.

"They said it's a one in four trillion chance so I guess I might be buying a lottery ticket today," Procita said.

Miller said it will take about two weeks to determine the cause of the fire.

Taurid meteor showers are currently happening in the area, with the peak taking place on Saturday. NASA said there will be an increase of bright balls visible in the sky.