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."
LINEAR INCREASE OF FIREBALL EVENTS SINCE 2010
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Comment by Juan F Martinez on April 18, 2018 at 4:04am
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Whoops. No one noticed this one coming. Massive Football Field-Sized Asteroid Comes Close to Earth in Surprise Flyby.
A football field-sized asteroid made a close shave with our home planet on April 15. It came within half the distance between the Earth and the moon. Researchers did not detect the space rock until just a few hours before it flew past.
A massive football field-sized asteroid made a close pass by Earth Sunday, a phenomenon that went unnoticed until the last minute.
With an estimated diameter of up to 361 feet, asteroid 2018 GE3 came within 119,500 miles of Earth, which is half the distance from our planet and the moon, EarthSky.org reports.
https://weather.com/science/space/news/2018-04-17-asteroid-massive-...
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Comment by M. Difato on April 13, 2018 at 3:38am
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A bright green fireball was observed and captured on camera as it streaked over Hungary and Croatia at 18:49 UTC (20:49 CET) on April 8, 2018. The event lasted about 5 seconds and was followed by sonic booms.
The International Meteor Organization (IMO), received 25 reports by 10:00 UTC, April 9 from people as far west as southern Germany.
According to reports, the event was associated with sonic booms suggesting the meteor penetrated deep into the atmosphere, Severe Weather Europe said.
Fireball over Europe on April 8, 2018 - heatmap. Credit: IMO
Due to the brightness and long duration of the event, pieces of this object may have landed somewhere in far northern Croatia.
Fireball over Europe on April 8, 2018. Credit: S. Pócsai, IMO
Fireball over Europe on April 8, 2018. Credit: Z. Biró, IMO
Fireball over Europe on April 8, 2018. Credit: M. Landy-Gyebnar, IMO
Fireball over Europe on April 8, 2018
Featured image: Fireball over Europe on April 8, 2018. Credit: M. Landy-Gyebnar
Source : https://watchers.news/2018/04/09/bright-fireball-over-europe-sonic-...
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Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on March 27, 2018 at 5:11am
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https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2018/03/26/Dash-cam-captures-fireballs...
Dash cam captures fireball's flight across Colorado sky
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Comment by Scott on March 12, 2018 at 10:28pm
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From March 3, 2018:
American Meteor Society received over 60 reports about a fireball seen over Tennessee around 11:28pm local Eastern Standard Time.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csfO-iVqLTk]
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NN2cIJll8Y]
American Meteor Society report
https://www.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2018/869
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On March 7, 2018 one of the largest bolides produced in the past 20 years, came into the atmosphere as one rock, and it was roughly the size of a minivan.
http://fox59.com/2018/03/09/nasa-says-fireball-that-shook-washingto...
SEATTLE – The fireball hundreds of people reported over the Washington coast Wednesday night was a meteor entering our atmosphere, NASA scientists told KCPQ.
Around 7:10 p.m., Washingtonians reported a bright light in the sky, a boom and shaking. Grays Harbor Emergency Management followed the incident, but were not immediately sure what it was.
"The WA State Duty Officer contacted the FAA and the Western Air Defense Sector and was told they had no problems," Grays Harbor Emergency Management wrote. "There was NO earthquake. There are no reports of explosions or crashes on the ground. We will continue our investigation of the incident and will forward any information we receive."
Scientists quickly solved the mystery Thursday morning. It was a bolide, said Dr. Marc Fries, with the NASA Johnson Space Center.
Basically, a bolide is a fancy word for a really large meteor.
"Really large meteors are called fireballs," Fries said. "Really large fireballs are called bolides. This was a bolide."
Fries said the meteor appeared to travel northwest over Washington and landed about 14 miles off the coast. Scientists tracked the bolide with seismographs, weather satellites and other NASA equipment; some registering readings as far away as Manitoba, Canada.
This was one of the largest bolides produced in the past 20 years, Fries said. It came into the atmosphere as one rock, roughly the size of a minivan. Made up of rock and ice, it quickly broke down into smaller pieces, with the largest pieces – about the size of a brick – hitting the ocean.
"Most of the mass is gone as it enters the atmosphere," Fries said. "What survived was about 1 percent of what entered."
Many reported a big boom after the stream of light Tuesday, Fries said. At 14 kilometers a second, the bolide was fast enough to cause a sonic boom that rattled windows and shook homes.
A meteorite falls somewhere on Earth about once every day, Fries said, with most being much smaller than what splashed into the Pacific Wednesday night. From those, pieces from only about 12 meteorites are found each year.
Too bad the bolide over Washington ended in the ocean, Fries said. Bolides this big are rare, and it would have been great to study the rock that landed. Most meteors are around 4.5 billion years old and offer a look at the cosmic past.
"It gives us not just a window into the past but an actual piece of the solar system's past," Fries said.
It's not too rare to see a fireball. But for those who saw the big boom of light Tuesday night, it was a special experience.
"I've seen a few fireballs," Fries said. "But never one large enough to shake the ground."
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Bright flash of light across the Ural mountains – Fireball caught over Chelyabinsk
http://meteorshowertonight.org/bright-flash-of-light-across-the-ura...
This happened on March 6, 2018 across the Ural mountains in Russia. And three days before, on March 3, 2018, another fireball lit up the sky over Chelyabinsk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGRbWbYvHKo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQYLDO8Yfag
and the resulting bright flash:
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‘Potentially hazardous’ asteroid bigger than Golden Gate bridge hurtles towards Earth
Published time: 6 Mar, 2018 10:28An asteroid bigger than the Golden Gate Bridge is careering toward Earth at breakneck speed. What’s even more alarming is that experts admit it’s “potentially hazardous” to our world.Astronomers have been following asteroid 2017 VR12 since it was detected in November last year. NASA says that the enormous space rock will shave past our planet in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Measuring up to 470 meters (1,542ft) in diameter the rock is travelling through space at 14,093mph (22,680kph). Because it will come so close to Earth and is big enough to cause significant damage, if it were to strike, the Minor Planet Center designated the asteroid as “potentially hazardous.”
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American Meteor Society received over 80 reports about a fireball seen over Wisconsin on Wednesday, February 28, 2018 around 8:46pm local time.
Viewers reported seeing a green streak across the sky moving from northeast to southwest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bCDp-0_0SA
https://www.cbs58.com/news/numerous-reports-of-meteor-over-southeas...
American Meteor Society report
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AMS received 9 reports about a fireball seen over Overijssel, Île-de-France, England, Bretagne, Zuid-Holland, Pays de la Loire, Brandenburg and Friesland on Saturday, February 24th 2018 around 19:44 UT.
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http://meteornews.org/fireball-february-24-0h11m-over-belgium/
Fireball February 24, 0h11m over Belgium
Feb 24, 2018
About an hour and half after its appearance the French astronomer François Collas announced that a very bright fireball had been registered at 0h11m33s UT by 10 FRIPON cameras most of them in France: Arras, Wimereux, Lille, Noordwijk (Netherlands), Bruxelles (Belgium), Charleville, Cappellelagrande, Hochfelden, Maubeuge and Oostkapelle (Netherlands).
Soon next morning the first CAMS BeNeLux stations started to confirm the detections of past night. Several stations had this fireball in their data. CAMS 815 (operated by Jean-Paul Dumoulin and Christian Wanlin) had the start of the fireball (Figure 2) on two successive frames. Paul Roggemans found the end of the fireball on his CAMS 384, while it passed the edge of CAMS 383 which was totally overexposed. All 6 cameras turned white overexposed at the moment of the brightest flare (Figure 3). Bart Dessoy had the fireball on CAMS 804, and for once the otherwise annoying reflection on the window of the camera housing offers a nice thumbnail image of the fireball. The video version of CAMS 804 may confuse many readers. Whenever an overexposed detection happens, CAMS reduces the brightness which results in a weird cloud of snow running though the picture. At some instant you see the black silhouet of the fireball as negative image (Figure 5). Luc Gobin got the fireball on CAMS 807 and 808 at Mechelen (Figure 6). Jean-Marie Biets at Wilderen had the event on CAMS 380 (Figure 7) and on his all-sky camera.
The messages started to appear in the meteor news groups as well as on Facebook. Below we give an overview of the first images we collected for this fireball from CAMS and from the EN All-sky cameras. Both Koen Miskotte at Ermelo (Figure 8), Klaas Jobse at Oostkapelle (Figure 9) and Jos Nijland at Benningbroek (Figure 10) registered this fireball.
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