Fireballs on the Rise

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There are increasing meteor reports recently all over the world. More debris from the Px tail...

ZetaTalk: Live Chat, written November 21, 2009

"When the debris from the tail of Planet X first started arriving in ernest, in 2004, the establishment chose to call this space junk. When the public became alarmed at the amount of space junk falling to Earth they tried to enhance the story by claiming that two satellites had crashed into each other, but this just made a bad story worse. Since fireballs have not gone away, but continued apace and if anything gotten worse, a new term has been used - asteroids. This is debris in the tail of Planet X, which is increasingly turning toward the Earth, hosed out from the N Pole of Planet X. This is why the wobble has gotten more violent, why electromagnetic disruption of dams and airplanes has occurred, and why blackouts will become more frequent. There will also be displays in the sky, some of which has already been noticed, from the electromagnetic tides assaulting the Earth's atmosphere. Stay tuned, more to come!"

March 3, 2012

Reports of a "bright light" and an "orange glow" were received by police across Scotland and the north of England around 9.40pm.

The Met Office tweeted: "Hi All, for anyone seeing something in the night sky, we believe it was a meteorite."

A spokesman for Strathclyde Police said the force had been "inundated" with calls about a bright object in the sky across the west of Scotland. A Durham Police spokeswoman said a number of calls came in around 9.45pm from concerned members of public who had seen a "bright light or a fire in the sky" and believed it may have been incidents involving an aircraft. "

It has been confirmed with air traffic control that there are no incidents of aircraftin difficult and nothing registered on radar," she said. "

The sightings are believed to be either an asteroid burning out or similar which has been restricted to the upper atmosphere only." Grampian Police said reports of people seeing a "flare or a bright object with a tail" were received from across the region. And Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary said numerous calls were made about a "large ball of fire in the sky" across Annandale and Eskdale.

One user wrote on the force's Facebook page: "It was awesome to see! Really big and bright!" Hundreds of people took to Twitter to report similar sightings across Scotland and the north of England. People described seeing a bright fireball moving across the sky with a large tail.

The Kielder Observatory also reported the sighting of a "huge fireball" travelling from north to south over Northumberland at 9.41pm. The Observatory posted on Twitter: "Of 30 years observing the sky #fireball best thing I have ever seen period."

LINEAR INCREASE OF FIREBALL EVENTS SINCE 2010

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What a Meteor Looks Like

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What a Large Daytime Fireball Looks Like

Chelyabinsk Fireball (2013)

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Rare fireball shines 10,000 times brighter than the Polaris from Beijing's urban area

2018-12-14 17:50 GMT+8

On December 13, a fire meteor of magnitude -8.1 was detected by a meteor monitoring site in Beijing.

The fireball came from this year's Geminid meteor shower. At 22:51 on December 12, the monitoring site first detected a shooting star of magnitude 1.7. Two hours later, the site observed the fire meteor of magnitude -8.1.

To measure the brightness of stars, astronomers created the concept of magnitude. The greater the magnitude is, the darker the star is. Zhang Chao, a science popularization worker at China's National Astronomical Observatory, told Beijing Youth Daily that the brightness of a fireball is usually greater than magnitude -1, but the brightness of this fireball observed in Beijing reaches magnitude -8.1, which is very rare.

According to the Beijing Youth Daily, the brightness of this fire meteor is 10,000 times than that of Polaris. It's hard to see average meteors in the city, but since it was really bright, it could be observed. 

The fireball also marks the start of this year's Geminid meteor shower. Geminid, Quadrantid and Parsed meteor showers are known as three major meteor showers in the northern hemisphere. From December 4 to December 17 is the active period of the Geminid meteor shower.

From the night of December 14 to early morning of December 15 is the best time to observe the Geminid meteor shower. The volume of meteors reaches the maximum in the first half of the night, as the moonlight tapers off, observation conditions will be better.

"Geminid meteor shower is never disappointing." Zhang Chao told Beijing Youth Daily.

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Fireball seen from Connecticut to eastern Canada

by The Associated Press

Thursday, December 13th 2018

At least a dozen people say they saw a bright fireball blazing across the night sky in New England.

The American Meteor Society says it received reports from Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire and New Brunswick.

More might have seen it if not for the timing. The fireball was reported shortly after midnight Wednesday

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That Geminid Meteor Shower started early. Just seen a greenish fireball come flying down out of the sky. Im in Pawtucket RI

Jeff Beam of Falmouth wrote to the American Meteor Society that it was like a "slow-motion Roman candle or something."

Meteorologist Chris Legro of the National Weather Service tweeted that the fireball was "bright enough to light up the whole sky."

and another:

http://hilltopmonitor.com/2018/12/huge-geminid-meteor-shower-fireba...

Huge Geminid meteor shower fireball caught on police dashcam

December 15, 2018 19:56·

MORE DETAILS: This has the potential to be the best meteor shower of the year! With every year that passes, the Geminids meteor shower gets larger.

This meteor shower occurs every year as the Earth passes through debris left from the asteroid while orbiting the sun.

The 3200 Phaethon may have collided with another object in the distant past, which produced the stream of particles that hurdle across earth's atmosphere and created a meteor shower.

Weather of course, is the X factor, and weather forecasts now call for cloudy skies Thursday night, AccuWeather said.

Described by NASA as the strongest meteor shower of the year, the Geminids are a little bit different.

The best viewing will come 2 a.m. Friday, he said.

Observers under a clear dark sky can expect to see up to 120 meteors per hour - an average of two per minute. The Geminid meteor shower will put on a dazzling display for sky watchers when it peaks on December 13

The Geminid meteor shower will peak from midnight until daybreak on 13 and 14 December. When the detritus enters the Earth's atmosphere it catches fire, offering us a glimpse of blazing pieces of space stuff which puts on a wild show at 79,000 miles per hour.

According to Space.com, the Geminids will most likely be the best meteor shower of 2018.

NASA astronomer Bill Cooke told USA Today that the Geminids used to peak at just 30 meteors per hour, but Jupiter's gravity has brought the shower closer to our planet, increasing the rate of shooting stars.

For those planning to courageous the freezing winter mornings to watch this year's final celestial show, here are some tips from experts.

As mentioned earlier, it is very easy to spot a Geminid meteor shower; it appears yellowish in colour but its arcs branch out into a pool of various colours including bright red, blue, green and white. Unless you've served as an astronaut there's a good chance the answer to that is no. But it is slated to set about 10 p.m., after which the sky should be the darkest and best time for viewing the light display.

While the Perseid meteor shower might be more popular (likely because those in the north don't have to courageous the cold to watch it), NASA calls it one of the most prolific and reliable events and Space.com said it should be the best meteor shower of the year.

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Mysterious fireball-like object caught on camera over Central Florida

Posted: Dec 07, 2018 10:01 AM EST

HOLLY HILL, Fla. (WESH) - A fireball was caught on camera cutting through the Central Florida sky Wednesday morning.

The video was filmed around 7 a.m. by Howard Gowan, of Holly Hill, who said he stepped outside to get some images of the sunrise.

“I didn’t know what the heck it was,” Gowan said.

Gowan said he was pointing his camera due south when he spotted the mysterious fireball.

The mystery in the sky, however, is not a mystery at all.

NASA officials said the fireball in the sky is a "jet contrail, illuminated by the rising sun.” The “two tails are a dead giveaway,” NASA said.

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Mysterious fireball-like object caught on camera over Central Florida

Dec 07, 2018 10:01 AM EST

HOLLY HILL, Fla. (WESH) - A fireball was caught on camera cutting through the Central Florida sky Wednesday morning.

The video was filmed around 7 a.m. by Howard Gowan, of Holly Hill, who said he stepped outside to get some images of the sunrise.

“I didn’t know what the heck it was,” Gowan said.

Gowan said he was pointing his camera due south when he spotted the mysterious fireball.

The mystery in the sky, however, is not a mystery at all.

NASA officials said the fireball in the sky is a "jet contrail, illuminated by the rising sun.” The “two tails are a dead giveaway,” NASA said

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https://www.wthr.com/article/video-meteor-streaks-across-sky-above-...

Meteor streaks across sky above Mexico City

Published: Dec 9th, 2018 - 8:05pm (EST)

Updated: Dec 9th, 2018 - 8:06pm (EST)

MEXICO CITY (NBC News) - A fireball streaked across the sky early Sunday in Mexico City.

A bright meteor lit up the sky in the Mexican capital in the early hours of the morning. An amateur photographer caught it on camera before it disappeared behind some trees.

The photographer, Jorge Diaz Henry, shot the video on his digital camera and shared it on social media.

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International Meteor Organization received 4 reports so far about a fireball seen over the western part of Hungary around 5:10am local time on Thursday, November 29th 2018.
The YouTube video shows the fireball as recorded above the city of Veszprém and the town of Alsóörs in Hungary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpCqeXnOv6g
http://fireballs.imo.net/members/imo_view/event/2018/5283
https://watchers.news/2018/11/29/hungary-fireball-november-29-2018

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American Meteor Society received over 90 reports from Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma about a fireball seen around 9:23pm local time on Thursday, November 15, 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVUPLwaVd2Y
https://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2018/4922

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American Meteor Society received over 70 reports about a fireball seen around 7:41pm Eastern Time on Thursday, November 8, 2018.
Reports came from across many states: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Tennessee and Wisconsin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgJ_nc3JBt4
https://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2018/4757

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A fireball “turned night into day” in Spain this weekend

Observatories in Toledo, Granada and Seville recorded the entry of a fragment of the Encke comet over the southeast of the peninsula in the early hours of Saturday morning

Madrid 5 NOV 2018 - 15:01 CET

A fragment of the Encke comet created a huge ball of fire over southeast Spain over the weekend, as it entered the Earth’s atmosphere at more than 100,000km/h. That’s according to a Facebook post from the Astrohita Foundation, which observed the phenomenon from the astronomical complex in La Hita, in the province of Toledo.

The fireball was visible from more than 400 kilometers away

The event was recorded at 12.46am on Saturday November 3, when a “ball of fire that shone brighter than the full Moon flew over the south of the country,” Astrohita wrote in its social media post. The luminosity was so unusually high that nighttime in the southeast of Spain turned into day for an instant.”

Despite the cloud cover at the time in the area, the phenomenon was registered by detectors at Huelva University, as well as observatories in La Sagra (Granada), Sierra Nevada (Granada) and Seville.

These detectors are part of so-called Project Smart, which aims to continuously monitor the skies to register and study the impact of rocks coming from the Solar System on the Earth’s atmosphere.

The analysis carried out by the researcher in charge of the project, Professor José María Madiedo, from Huelva University, established that the impact took place 122 kilometers above the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Almería, moving in a northwesterly direction, eventually extinguishing around 63 kilometers above the municipality of Pueblo Blanco (Almería).

The fireball was visible from more than 400 kilometers away.

Fragments from the Encke comet are mostly smaller than a grain of sand, and coincide with the Earth during the months of October and November, producing a series of meteor showers known as the Taurids.

However, the fragment that caused the fireball on November 3 was much bigger, measuring almost a meter across, which is why its impact against the atmosphere produced an unusually bright phenomenon.

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Fireball Interrupts Arkansas High School Football Game
A bright fireball streaked through the skies over Arkansas and Alabama on the evening of Friday, November 2. The National Weather Service Birmingham tweeted about sightings of a “orange meteor with a green tail” and shared its own footage of the fireball captured on a security camera. The spotting comes as the Taurid meteor shower was expected to peak in early November. Chase Weeks captured footage of the fireball burning in the sky over a high school football match in Batesville, Arkansas.