Fireballs on the Rise
There are increasing meteor reports recently all over the world. More debris from the Px tail...
ZetaTalk: Live Chat, written November 21, 2009
- "When the debris from the tail of Planet X first started arriving in ernest, in 2004, the establishment chose to call this space junk. When the public became alarmed at the amount of space junk falling to Earth they tried to enhance the story by claiming that two satellites had crashed into each other, but this just made a bad story worse. Since fireballs have not gone away, but continued apace and if anything gotten worse, a new term has been used - asteroids. This is debris in the tail of Planet X, which is increasingly turning toward the Earth, hosed out from the N Pole of Planet X. This is why the wobble has gotten more violent, why electromagnetic disruption of dams and airplanes has occurred, and why blackouts will become more frequent. There will also be displays in the sky, some of which has already been noticed, from the electromagnetic tides assaulting the Earth's atmosphere. Stay tuned, more to come!"
March 3, 2012
Reports of a "bright light" and an "orange glow" were received by police across Scotland and the north of England around 9.40pm.
The Met Office tweeted: "Hi All, for anyone seeing something in the night sky, we believe it was a meteorite."
A spokesman for Strathclyde Police said the force had been "inundated" with calls about a bright object in the sky across the west of Scotland. A Durham Police spokeswoman said a number of calls came in around 9.45pm from concerned members of public who had seen a "bright light or a fire in the sky" and believed it may have been incidents involving an aircraft. "
It has been confirmed with air traffic control that there are no incidents of aircraftin difficult and nothing registered on radar," she said. "
The sightings are believed to be either an asteroid burning out or similar which has been restricted to the upper atmosphere only." Grampian Police said reports of people seeing a "flare or a bright object with a tail" were received from across the region. And Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary said numerous calls were made about a "large ball of fire in the sky" across Annandale and Eskdale.
One user wrote on the force's Facebook page: "It was awesome to see! Really big and bright!" Hundreds of people took to Twitter to report similar sightings across Scotland and the north of England. People described seeing a bright fireball moving across the sky with a large tail.
The Kielder Observatory also reported the sighting of a "huge fireball" travelling from north to south over Northumberland at 9.41pm. The Observatory posted on Twitter: "Of 30 years observing the sky #fireball best thing I have ever seen period."
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Comment by Matt B on March 30, 2019 at 11:49pm
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Stargazers looking for Aurora Australis mystified by bright green flash
By Charley Rico29th March 2019
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-29/tasmanian-stargazers-look-fo...
Key points:
* Residents in Tasmania's south saw a bright green flash in the starry sky
* Social media users suggested it was a meteor, glowing green because of the metals inside the rock
* An expert says it could also be space debris, but added it was a "spectacular" sight
They were waiting for the Aurora Australis, but amateur photographers were left guessing after seeing a bright green flash light up the Tasmanian sky.
Amateur photographer Leoni Williams captured a shot of the green streak about 9:30pm on Thursday by "accident".
Overlooking Pipe Clay Lagoon, toward Clifton Beach in southern Tasmania, Ms Williams had her camera facing south in anticipation of an Aurora.
"I was very lucky to capture this bright green object before it disappeared over the horizon," Ms Williams said.
"I'm still not sure what it was. I didn't actually see it with the naked eye as I wasn't watching. I had just set the camera on 30 seconds and pushed the shutter and turned back to my phone.
"I would imagine it was pretty quick. I nearly missed it because it was at the end of the exposure."
Photo sparked social media debate
Ms Williams took to social media to try and find out what she'd captured on camera.
Opinions varied, with some thinking it was a shooting star, a fallen satellite or even a UFO.
Spotted from the Huon Valley to Dodges Ferry, other photos began popping up on social media.
Eventually, it was shared on social media page Australian Meteor Reports.
"It's definitely a meteor," page administrator David Finlay said.
"That flash that's been captured is a very, very bright meteor — it's what we'd call a 'fireball'. It probably lit up the countryside."
Mr Finlay — a former industrial chemist who has been studying astronomy from an very early age — said the flash was created by a "small rock from space, blazing through the atmosphere, creating friction with the atmosphere".
"It glows and ionises gas — that's what you see as this fireball blazing through the sky.
"If it actually survives atmospheric entry and lands as a rock on land, that's what we call a meteorite — only if it makes it to the ground."
Why is it green?
As for the bright green glow, Mr Finlay said it had to do with the elemental components of the meteor.
"The green is produced by a combination of the nickel and iron in the meteor," he said.
"It's probably just a normal rocky meteor but it would contain flecks of metal in the rock, producing that colour. It's very cool.
"It's what we colloquially call a 'fish squisher' because it's over the ocean," he said.
Professor Simon Ellingsen, the head of physics at the University of Tasmania, said it was possible the object was manmade space debris rather than a meteor.
"[The colour] is almost certainly because of the specific elements and minerals in the object," he said.
"It probably wouldn't have looked that green to the naked eye [because] digital cameras are so good at picking up the light."
He said while it wasn't unusual to spot a meteor or space debris over Tasmania, this object would have been a special sight to see.
"The sort of rule of thumb is if you go outside to a clear, dark sight, you'll see a shooting star, so to speak, about every 10 minutes or so," he said.
"This one that's been caught is bigger than normal and more spectacular than you normally get.
"This photographer was obviously in the right place at the right time."
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Comment by Juan F Martinez on March 29, 2019 at 4:38pm
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NEW YORK ~ A bright fireball was seen above Ashokan Reservoir, NY at 10:13 UTC on March 28, 2019 (18:13 EST). The event lasted several seconds.
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 261 reports by 12:00 UTC, March 29, mainly from Connecticut and Pennslyvania. Eyewitness reports also came from Washington DC, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont and West Virginia.
The preliminary 3D trajectory by AMS shows that the fireball was traveling from SE to NW and ended its flight NW of Pine Hill, NY.
https://watchers.news/2019/03/29/fireball-ashokan-reservoir-new-york-march-28-2019/
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Comment by Scott on March 27, 2019 at 3:35am
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American Meteor Society posted a video of a fireball recorded from the city of Qujing in Yunnan province, China around 8:38pm local time on March 19, 2019.
Watch lower right corner of video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5_U4Ztr_RQ
https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2019/1239
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Comment by jorge namour on March 25, 2019 at 3:18pm
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BRASIL
Is it circulating by media this footage that may be related to the meteor event held in the florianópolis region in the late afternoon of today?
https://www.facebook.com/exosscitizenscience/videos/vb.159486926416...
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Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on March 20, 2019 at 3:01am
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https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Fireball-Lights-Up-Night-Sky-...
Did You See It? Fireball Lights Up Night Sky of New York
Published Mar 19, 2019 at 1:49 PM
A fireball illuminated the night sky over a New York airport — and according to the American Meteor Society, dozens reported the astral sight.
The AMS shared a video on its Twitter account showing a ball of light traveling from one end of the dark, night sky to the other.
The non-profit scientific organization says the fireball was caught over Elmira Corning Regional Airport Tuesday at around 2:35 UTC.
As of Tuesday afternoon, the organization received 87 reports about this fireball which was apparently seen over the Northeast, including Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
A fireball is a “meteor which is brighter than any planet or star,” according to AMS.
https://twitter.com/amsmeteors/status/1107940966462353409?ref_src=t...
https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/event/2019/1174
Events in 2019 1174-2019
We received 87 reports about a fireball seen over CT, DE, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA and VT on Tuesday, March 19th 2019 around 02:35 UT.
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A meteor? Glowing object filmed falling in Siberian sky
A shining object was captured descending from the sky on a dash cam video in Russia’s remote north. A witness claims it was a meteor, but authorities say the location of the incident is too far away to investigate
Another eyewitness told local journalists that it became “light and warm” during the incident on Friday evening near the village of Tura in the Evenk Autonomous Territory.https://www.rt.com/russia/454028-krasnoyarsk-meteor-footage-russia/
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Large fireball over Belgium and Netherlands, seen also from UK, France and Germany February 15, 2019. Credit: IMO
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GUATEMALA 2-15-2019 #Fireball #Meteor Posted by Rodolfo Brenes
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https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/mysterious-fireball...
Mysterious fireball spotted over Cornwall
It was described as big and very bright with red flames coming from it
15:37, 15 FEB 2019
A large and mysterious fireball with ‘lots of flames coming from it’ was spotted in the skies over Cornwall.
According to reports, the unidentified object looked like a meteor and was really slow and big.
It was reported over Crackington Haven at about 10.30pm and the Kernow Weather Team (KWT) received another report of the sighting over West Cornwall at about 10.15pm.
The KWT took to their Facebook page to appeal for more information.
Its post reads: “Strange sighting over West Cornwall, February 14, 2019, 10.15pm ish.
“We have tonight, had a report of one of our followers seeing what can only be described as a large meteor or fireball, lots of flames coming from it.
“If you saw this or even better, captured an image, get in touch we would love to hear more about what you have seen.”
Tony Bowden, who reported the body to the KWT, explained in the comments: “What I saw wasn't green, and it was in the atmosphere, and coming down with red flames from it. Possibly a small section of the comet broke off.”
Several social media users replied that they did see the phenomenon.
Annette Knight commented: “Yes, yes I saw it. Just happened to look out of the window and saw it coming down. Really slow and big.”
Sarah Myford added: “I did see something odd in the east last night around 10.30 pm (ish) driving back through Slaughterbridge near Delabole, I thought it was a firework, but it might not have been.”
Jenna Rose Tregurtha wrote: “I saw it in Crowlas looking towards St Michael’s Mount... Very bright and it was thicker than your ordinary shooting star.”
Linsey Shenton commented: “I am south east Cornwall and I saw one last night whilst outside with the dogs never seen anything like it before.”
Bright fireballs and individual meteors will become more frequent in the next few days as part of the annual “spring meteors”.
They typically grow in intensity between February and April.
But the next major meteor shower will not start until late April when the Lyrid meteors break out into the atmosphere.
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https://www.news4jax.com/news/florida/meteor-fireball-streaks-over-...
Meteor fireball streaks over Westside Jacksonville
Night sky lights up across Florida
Posted: 1:22 PM, February 13, 2019
JACKSONVILLE, Fla - Several people watched the night sky light up from Jacksonville's Westside down to Melbourne Tuesday night. Vivian Parrish, in the Rolling Hills neighborhood of the Westside shared video from her doorbell camera of a fireball streaking across the sky.
Even though it happened at 2 a.m., Vivian was not the only one to see the dropping fireball around that time. A woman in Middleburg saw a very bright light bigger than a full moon but didn’t hear a sonic boom.
The American Meteor Society, which collects reports on fireball and meteor sightings, shows four other sightings -- from Middleburg to Palm Bay, in South Florida.
Meteoroids commonly burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere but they are not always noticed because of sunlight. Bigger space rocks may not vaporize completely in the sky before hitting the ground.
These meteorites are rare but often display an awesome streak in the sky. A rock that weighs as much as a paperclip can trigger a fireball by slamming into the atmosphere at 130,000 mph.
This was the case Feb. 1 when a meteor passed over Ft. Myers and struck western Cuba.
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