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 Starr DiGiacomo on October 13, 2020 at 3:51am
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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
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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.
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Fireball booms over UK as residents describe 'the best I've ever seen'
A FIREBALL which hit over northern Europe was so bright that one eye witness in Britain described it as one of the "best and biggest" they'd ever seen. Read full article: Fireball booms over UK as residents desc...→
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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.
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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:
https://www.iheartradio.ca/104-1-the-dock/news-trending/fireball-fl...
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.
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https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2020/10/01/flash-of-light-in-the-sky/
A streak of light and then a bright flash was seen cutting across the sky early on Wednesday morning.October 1, 2020 at 11:01 amPITTSBURGH (KDKA/AP) – Did you see it?
Early on Wednesday morning, several social media users in Pittsburgh and up and down the East Coast say they saw a bright flash of light and a streak in the sky.
The flash of light occurred just before 6:30 a.m. A trucker driving along I-76 in Pennsylvania was able to capture video of the flash from their dashcam.
The American Meteor Society, a nonprofit group, said it received more than 200 reports of a bright fireball over eastern Ohio. Robert Lunsford, a society official, said the fireball was most likely a random meteor not associated with any known meteor shower.
It takes an object only the size of a softball to create a flash as bright as the full moon, Lunsford said. This object was probably a bit larger, Lunsford said, but more analysis would be needed to determine its size.
KDKA spoke to a science writer who explained the fireball was most likely a meteor falling toward earth. While meteors aren’t rare, seeing one, especially one this bright, doesn’t happen often.
“We saw a really exceptional meteor, which is when a piece of debris from outer space, either rock or metal, hits the atmosphere,” said science writer Ralph Crewe.
Crewe says the speed of the meteor is what caused it to heat so quickly, and being able to see large fireballs like this one is rare.
“They actually happen pretty frequently but not usually in over-populated areas. Most of the earth is the ocean, so we’re lucky to get to see one like this,” he told KDKA’s Lisa Washington.
The American Meteor society said preliminary reports show the fireball traveled from southeast to northwest and ended its flight somewhere over North Benton, Ohio — about 77 miles from Pittsburgh.
The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh said it was aware of the reports but had no information.
Officials at the University of Pittsburgh’s Allegheny Observatory did not immediately comment.
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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'
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".
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.
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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
A spectacular fireball lit up the sky over the Kanto region around 10:30 p.m. on Aug. 21.
Experts speculated that the meteor came in over the Pacific in Kanagawa Prefecture and fell on the southern part of the Boso Peninsula in Chiba Prefecture next to Tokyo.
A camera set up in Yokohama by Atom tech. Inc., a company that develops network camera apparatus, captured the dazzling fireball in all its glory.
Daichi Fujii, a curator at the Hiratsuka City Museum, said it was as bright as a full moon.
After analyzing multiple images, Fujii believes the fireball was a chunk of asteroid that broke off from orbit near Jupiter and probably did not burn out.
It was the second such fireball seen over the Kanto region since one in the early hours of July 2.
Later, meteorite fragments were found in two the Chiba Prefecture cities of Narashino and Funabashi.
The National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo has applied to register them as “Narashino inseki (meteorite).”
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https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/ufo-fireball-seen-in...
UFO? Fireball seen in Minnesota sky for 'about 3 minutes'
The mysterious fireball was seen before the sun went down Monday evening.A mysterious fireball was seen in the sky above the Twin Cities Monday evening.
"We saw it at exactly 8:16 p.m. while sitting in our north-facing apartment in New Hope, and it only lasted in our view for about 3 minutes," Aaron VanDanacker told Bring Me The News. "My partner, Carlye Felton, spotted it first and said, 'oh my gosh, that looks terrifying.'"
VanDanacker said a friend of his also saw the fireball from Maple Grove. Another Minnesota resident tweeted several images of it.
"It looked like a giant asteroid or comet because it had a long, wide fiery tail, that also got shorter and shorter as the comet-looking fireball left our sight," VanDanacker said.
What was it? If there is an answer, it has yet to be confirmed.
"It doesn't look like a plane to me," said Patrick Hogan, director of communications with the Metropolitan Airports Commission.
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https://www.outtherecolorado.com/news/video-giant-fireball-seen-str...
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.
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https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1314166/fireball-uk-meteor-a...
Fireball BOOMS over UK as onlookers search for NEOWISE - 'Almost apocalyptic'July 21 2020While many in the UK were out looking for Comet NEOWISE on July 21, some Britons were treated to another astronomical display. A meteor travelled through the night's sky, producing a large boom as it hit Earth's atmosphere. The mesmeric fireball was described as "almost apocalyptic" by one spectator, as the International Meteor Organisation (IMO) received almost 40 reports from stunned onlookers.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.“These bright meteors are what we call fireballs and they often strike fear and awe for those who witness them.”
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