Fireballs on the Rise

[Sevan Makaracı]

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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)

[Scott]

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

[Starr DiGiacomo]

https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/11/05/inenglish/1541425285_269473.html

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.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/national/fireball-interrupts...

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.

[Scott]

American Meteor Society received 97 reports about a fireball seen from Florida, Georgia and South Carolina around 10:22pm local time on Sunday, October 6, 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dzB1sEabVw
https://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2018/4011

[Starr DiGiacomo]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fireball-seen-over-washington-...

Fireball seen over Washington late Monday night

October 3

A meteor streaked across the skies of the Washington region on Monday night, witnessed by a relative few, but described as impressive by those fortunate enough to see it.
As of late Tuesday, the American Meteor Society said it had received 15 reports “about a fireball” seen over Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania about 11:30 p.m. on Monday.
Slashing silently across the skies, most frequently seen at night, meteors seem to disrupt the normal overhead order of things, and in their speed and brilliance, often arouse sensations of awe and a sense of the mysterious.
A report from Oakland, Md, called it “bright white like staring at the sun.” It then seemed to turn orange, the report said.
“This was so cool,” said a report from Purcellville, Va.
Another report to the meteor society came from Dale City, Va.
It came from someone who had watched many videos of meteors and meteor showers.
“There are not many I’ve seen this bright and large,” said the brief report.
Not all those who spot the fireball report it to the meteor society.
One witness, who reported his observations on Twitter, asked: . Anybody else see that meteorite just now fall & burn out (looking west from #DC)?!”
According to the witness’s Tweet, “ From Logan Cir it looked like it was right over Georgetown! It was nuts. “

[Scott]

American Meteor Society received 4 reports about a fireball seen from Wyoming, Idaho and Utah around 6:06am local time on Saturday, September 22, 2018.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhXH8MF_ERg
https://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2018/3787

[jorge namour]

FIREBALL IRAQ SEPTEMBER 25 2018

https://www.facebook.com/WeatherforecastIraq/videos/vb.514620898634...

Witness a FIREBALL in the sky on some neighborhoods of the capital Baghdad hours before now and is likely to be meteor entered the atmosphere and burned from those who saw it

The video of Camera installed in one of the houses of the capital Baghdad shows the fireball

meteor that passed over several provinces at dawn today, including Baghdad and Diyala and other areas

[Starr DiGiacomo]

https://www.oanow.com/news/fireball-witnessed-in-alabama-surroundin...

Fireball witnessed in Alabama, surrounding states

A bright fireball, or meteor, was spotted Saturday night by multiple eyewitnesses in Alabama and surrounding states, according to a Sunday social media post by state meteorologist James Spann, who shared information from Bill Cooke of the Meteoroid Environment Office at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.
Observed at 10:11 p.m. Central Daylight Time, the meteor caught the eyes of witnesses in Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia and Florida as well.
“There was considerable cloud cover at the time, so this meteor was detected by only two NASA cameras located in NE Georgia and North Carolina,” the Facebook post stated. “Their extreme range and the fact that they were positioned along a straight line from the event preclude a trajectory solution at this time, though the date was used to establish the brightness of the fireball, which was close to that of the 1st quarter Moon.”

An eyewitness analysis indicates the meteor originated approximately 56 miles above Oak Bowery, located north of Auburn, the post added.
“Moving at 56,000 miles per hour slightly west of north, the object – which was about 5 inches in diameter and weighed around 4 pounds – travelled 38 miles through the atmosphere before burning up 26 miles above the town of Cragford,” the post further stated. “Based on available information, no meteorites are expected to have been produced by this event.”

Reactions to the post featured commenters highlighting how they experienced a loud sound and a lightning-like flash of light.

[jorge namour]

Australian meteor: Scientists search for remnants of late-night fireball

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/29/australia/perth-fireball-meteor-...

(CNN)Australian scientists are searching for the remnants of a meteor which burned spectacularly across the sky in Perth Tuesday night.

The unusual phenomenon was caught on camera by multiple spectators, and described as a "fireball" on social media.
Curtin University professor Phil Bland told CNN it was "almost certainly" a chunk of asteroid coming through the atmosphere, CONTINUE...

[Juan F Martinez]

ALERT! 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid the size of Pyramid of Giza to hurtle 'near' Earth POSTED: AUG 23 2018 09:39AM CDT

FOX NEWS - NASA has issued an alert that a "potentially hazardous asteroid" is on a "close approach" towards Earth. However, it's nothing to be alarmed at, as the asteroid is expected to zoom past the planet approximately 3 million miles away.

The enormous space rock, known as asteroid 2016 NF23 and estimated to be between 230 and 525 feet in diameter, will zip past Earth on Aug. 29 at a velocity of 9.04 kilometers per second, or approximately 20,000 miles per hour, the government space agency said on its Earth Close Approaches page.

It is the third largest near-Earth object (NEO) on the page, behind two other asteroids which will fly past Earth in the early part of September, 2001 RQ17 and 2015 FP118.

At 230 feet, it would be slightly smaller than a Boeing 747. At the high-end of the estimate, 525 feet, it would be taller than the Great Pyramid of Giza, which is approximately 455 feet high.

Near-Earth objects regularly fly by the planet, though "potentially hazardous objects" are ones that are less than 0.05 au (astronomical units) away from the planet, or approximately 5 million miles.

Any asteroid that comes within 4.6 million miles of Earth with a diameter greater than 500 feet is termed “potentially hazardous," according to NASA.

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