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- IMPACT THREAT LEVEL YELLOW07/01/19 to 09/01/19
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2012 Meteor Shower Calendar
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AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2019 (UTC) EVENTS: M10-
50, L51-150, H151+
IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2019 (UTC)
The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports - Summary
- DATE/REPORTS - Meteorites (Comet Fragments) Of Frozen Organic Gases?
- 01 JUL/19 EVENTS
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- 02 JUL/17 EVENTS
17
- 03 JUL/13 EVENTS M-1
13M-1
- 04 JUL/11 EVENTS
11
- 05 JUL/16 EVENTS
16
- 06 JUL/9 EVENTS
9
- 07 JUL/14 EVENTS M-1
14M=1
- 08 JUL/9 EVENTS M-1
10M-1
- 09 JUL/6 EVENTS
6
- 10 JUL/13 EVENTS
13
- 11 JUL/12 EVENTS
12
- 12 JUL/15 EVENTS
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- 13 JUL/19 EVENTS
19
- 14 JUL/12 EVENTS M-1
12M-1
- 15 JUL/16 EVENTS
16
- 16 JUL/18 EVENTS M-1
19
- 17 JUL/12 EVENTS
13
- 18 JUL/11 EVENTS
11
- 19 JUL/12 EVENTS M-1
12M-1
- 20 JUL/11 EVENTS M-1
11M-1
- 21 JUL/14 EVENTS l-1
14L-1
- 22 JUL/19 EVENTS
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- 23 JUL/22 EVENTS
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- 24 JUL/25 EVENTS M-1
26
- 25 JUL/33 EVENTS H-1,M-1
34H-1,M-1
- 26 JUL/23 EVENTS
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- 27 JUL/29 EVENTS M-1
29M-1
- 28 JUL/32 EVENTS M-1
32M-1
- 29 JUL/36 EVENTS
36
- 30 JUL/28 EVENTS
28
- 31 JUL/30 EVENTS L-1,M-1
30 L-1,M-1
- 01 AUG/32 EVENTS
33
- 02 AUG/23 EVENTS
23
- 03 AUG/29 EVENTS
29
- 04 AUG/20 EVENTS M-1
20M-1
- 05 AUG/23 EVENTS
23
- 06 AUG/18 EVENTS M-2
18M-2
- 07 AUG/23 EVENTS
24
- 08 AUG/24 EVENTS M-1
23M-1
- 09 AUG/24 EVENTS
25
- 10 AUG/21 EVENTS M-3
21M-3
- 11 AUG/26 EVENTS M-1
26
- 12 AUG/35 EVENTS
36
- 13 AUG/40 EVENTS
40
- 14 AUG/30 EVENTS M-2
30
- 15 AUG/22 EVENTS M-1
22M-1
- 16 AUG/18 EVENTS L-1,M-1
18L-1,M-1
- 17 AUG/24 EVENTS L-1,M-1
24L-1,M-1
- 18 AUG/14 EVENTS
14
- 19 AUG/14 EVENTS L-1
14L-1
- 20 AUG/15 EVENTS
15
- 21 AUG/11 EVENTS
11
- 22 AUG/18 EVENTS
18
- 23 AUG/25 EVENTS M-2
26M-2
- 24 AUG/31 EVENTS
31
- 25 AUG/24 EVENTS M-5
24M-5
- 26 AUG/17 EVENTS
17
- 27 AUG/22 EVENTS M-1
22M-1
- 28 AUG/22 EVENTS
22
- 29 AUG/24 EVENTS M-2
24M-2
- 30 AUG/28 EVENTS
28
- 31 AUG/22 EVENTS M-1
22M-1
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Meteor fireball streaks across Australian skies - 06 Jul 2019
Social media is buzzing with reports of a meteor spotted over the South Coast on
Friday night.
On the Facebook group Australian Meteor Reports, administrator David Finlay said
the meteor was spotted about 9pm on July 5 and believed it had come to
ground somewhere in Victoria.
"I have reports of sonics from Forest Hill (Melbourne) to Mallacoota Vic. That's
a distance of 400km. I've never heard of sonics being reported so far apart," he
said in a Facebook post to the group.
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Loud boom of unknown origin shakes homes in south Texas - 11 Jul 2019
Wilson County authorities said they began getting calls into dispatch reporting
the boom around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Sisters Bailey and Molly Runty were at home
in their home in Adkins when they heard it.
"We were just sitting in the room, and then we just heard it and then I started
freaking out," Bailey said.
The girls described the boom as being so huge that it shook their house
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ANOTHER meteor fireball seen from across Florida - Second such event in two
weeks - 19 Jul 2019
Video of a bright meteor streaking across the sky came in to the WFLA newsroom
early Friday morning. WFLA viewer Rick Gallas was able to capture the video of
the meteor on his security cameras at 11:27 pm Thursday night. This is looking
east but he is not the only one who saw this meteor.
So, from reports I have gathered from this tweet:
https://twitter.com/wxreese/status/1152058533686448128?s=21 …, the “lightning”
strike detected near #Orlando could actually be the #meteor I saw around 11:30
PM July 18, 2019. Will be interesting to see if any video comes out of it in
coming day(s). #Florida
The American Meteor Society received 24 reports of this "fireball" last night.
While the exact cause or origin of the meteor will probably remain unknown, it
is possibly a meteor falling into the earth's atmosphere. Based on the 24
reports that came in, the trajectory of the meteor was determined by the AMS and
is displayed by the blue line below.
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Boom heard, felt across four western Illinois counties - Remains mystery -
19 Jul 2019
Emergency and law enforcement agencies in Greene, Morgan, Scott and Pike
counties received numerous reports of a loud, explosion-like sound that shook
the ground and buildings about 1 p.m. Thursday.
"It sounded like a jet or something that blew up," Joe Harwick of White Hall
said. "It echoed for some time."
The boom was heard throughout Greene County and along the edge of Pike County.
It was heard as far east as Jacksonville and as north as Naples.
Mary Jane Steelman of White Hall said the boom shook her house.
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Comet fragment or Indian rocket launch? Eerie light seen in the night sky from
all over eastern Australia - 22 Jul 2019
An astronomer has explained a strange, bright light that appeared in skies over
the Northern Territory and Queensland on Monday night, leaving hundreds of
people mystified.
Shauna Royes spotted the light over the Julia Creek caravan park in remote
north-west Queensland about 7.30pm on Monday night and put a call out to the ABC
North West Facebook page to figure out what it was.
"It was quite a bright, unusual light with a tail on it. It was travelling
north-east and we watched it for probably two or three minutes before it faded
out.
"We had no idea what it was. It was really unusual."
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Incredible Video Shows Meteor Fireball Streaking Across Canadian Sky - 24
Jul 2019
A fireball as bright as the full moon streaked across the Canadian province of
Ontario early Wednesday (July 24), possibly throwing meteorites to Earth along
the way.
The flash of light from a beachball-size space rock was recorded by 10 all-sky
cameras deployed by Western University in London, Canada, and mounted across
southern Ontario and Quebec. While meteorites could have fallen in the Bancroft
area (about 3.5 hours northeast of Toronto), footage was captured as far away as
Montreal — about 260 miles (420 kilometers) east of Bancroft.
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Suspected Meteorite Crashes Into Rice Field In India - 24 Jul 2019
Madhubani/Patna: Farmers working in a paddy field at a village in Madhubani
district were left shaken when a meteorite-like object weighing around 15kg fell
from the sky, leaving a crater at the spot where it crashed.
Madhubani DM Shirsat Kapil Ashok told TOI that the incident took place around
2.30pm on Monday. "Agriculture labourers working the paddy field where the
meteorite struck claimed that they saw a fireball-like object coming down from
the sky and made a deep crater where it hit the ground. The farmers also saw
smoke coming out from the spot in the water-filled agriculture field," Shirsat
said.
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Bright nighttime flash seen over the Big Island, Hawaii last week was a
meteor - 01 Aug 2019
A bright flash that illuminated the sky the night of July 24 was caused
by a rock, estimated to be between the size of a softball and basketball,
entering the Earth's atmosphere.
The University of Hawaii's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System program
on Mauna Loa caught an image of the meteor that briefly lit the sky brighter
than a full moon.
According to a UH news release, the ATLAS program, located at the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration facility on Mauna Loa, searches for
hazardous asteroids, and its all-sky weather-monitoring camera captured an image
of the meteor during routine monitoring of the night sky.
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Meteor Fireball Widely Reported Over US East Coast - 25 Jul 2019
The American Meteor Society (AMS) has received over 360 reports about a meteor
fireball seen over Connecticut, CT, DE, Delaware, MA, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, MD, ME, NC, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, NH, NJ, NY, PA,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, RI, VA, Vermont and VT on Thursday, July 25th 2019
around 03:04 UT.
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Meteor fireball may have dropped meteorites in Ontario - 26 Jul 2019
A lime-green meteor as bright as the full Moon streaked across Canadian skies on
July 24th and may have delivered free samples from the asteroid belt.
"We suspect meteorites made it to the ground because the fireball ended very low
in the atmosphere just to the west of Bancroft and slowed down significantly.
This is a good indicator that material survived," said Peter Brown, a meteor and
comet researcher at Western University.
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Meteor fireball seen by several Southeast US coastal residents - 27 Jul
2019
On July 27, 2019, the American Meteor Society received 24 reports of a meteor
over Georgia, Maryland, North and South Carolina and Virginia. Jeff H. recorded
footage of the fireball on his doorbell camera:
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'I thought it was Armageddon' - Perth residents stunned by early morning meteor
fireball - 30 Jul 2019
Early risers around the Perth metropolitan area were stunned by a bright green
light filling the night sky on Wednesday morning, but what looked like
Armageddon was most likely a meteor, according to a Perth Observatory staffer.
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Bright meteor fireball lights up night sky in Almeria, Spain - 08 Aug
2019
A ball of fire created by a rock from an asteroid lit up the sky over Almeria
when it entered the atmosphere at a speed of some 72,000 kilometres per hours
over the Mediterranean in front of the provincial coastline.
It was so bright it could be seen up to 400 kilometres away.
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Flash of light seen in sky above southwest Victoria, Australia was meteor
falling to earth - 12 Aug 2019
Security camera footage of the bright light falling to earth was captured by
Tracey Reid's home CCTV in Horsham at 8.27pm, but it was seen and heard by
people in Hamilton and Portland.
Astronomical Society of Victoria president Russ Cockman said it was "definitely
a fireball meteor" based on its peak brightness and then the way it faded.
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Meteor Lights Up Sky, Shakes Homes In Southwest Missouri - 12 Aug 2019
The meteor created a massive shock wave and thunderous boom as it streaked above
southwest Missouri. The American Meteor Society received 16 reports of a
fireball seen from points in southwest Missouri,
northwest Arkansas, southeast Kansas and northwest Arkansas, all just moments
after 5 p.m. Sunday.
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Bright Meteor Fireball Seen From Across Western Mediterranean - 17 Aug
2019
A very bright meteor appeared in the skies over the western-central
Mediterranean yesterday evening, August 16th at around 22:43 CEST. Videos
indicate a very significant event.
The fireball was likely significantly brighter than the full Moon, indicating a
sizeable incoming meteoroid. It was a long-duration event, lasting over 4
seconds. The meteor reached peak brightness in a series of bright flares, which
appear to have resulted in fragmentation of the meteoroid - several fragments
are visible towards the end of the luminous path. It appears likely that the
incoming meteoroid was comparatively slow and that the event may have resulted
in a meteorite fall - into the Mediterranean sea.
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Bright Meteor Fireball Reported Over North Alabama - 18 Aug 2019
Did you notice a bright flash of light around 9:30pm Sunday night? If so, you
may have spotted a fireball!
The American Meteor Society notes that more than 60 eyewitnesses reported the
fireball in numerous states, including Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia,
Tennessee, and Alabama. Eyewitnesses report the fireball was visible for roughly
1.5 - 3.5 seconds.
Additional information and reports are forthcoming regarding Sunday night's
fireball. However, many across the Tennessee Valley spotted the bright feature
in the sky.
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Thunderous Mystery Boom Rattles Central Maryland - 19 Aug 2019
Dozens of ear-witnesses in College Park, Greenbelt and Berwyn Heights, including
this journalist, reported hearing a loud, explosion-like boom in the early-
morning hours of Sunday, Aug. 18, 2019. The noise
rattled residents, who took to social media to report their experiences. As of
Sunday evening, no definitive cause for the noise has been disclosed by local
officials.
This journalist was drinking on his balcony near the intersection of 49th Avenue
and Tecumseh Road in College Park when he heard the mystery boom at around 1:45
a.m. Aug. 19. The sound appeared to emanate from the south, in the direction of
the University of Maryland campus and College Park's Route 1 corridor. The sound
was not accompanied by a flash of light, such as from lightning.
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Meteor Fireball Lights Up Western Sky In Washington And British Columbia -
23 Aug 2019
This is only the second time in my life that I've seen a meteor flash this
bright in the night sky. And I was in the right place, at the right time,
looking in the right direction.
Walking home from work Thursday night around midnight in Spokane, Washington
(because my car had a flat tire of all things), I saw the astronomical spectacle
sometimes known as a "fireball," flash across part of the western sky low to the
ground. It only lasted about three seconds. No time to take a picture, but I did
tweet about the experience a minute later.
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Loud Flat-Shaking 'Explosion' Panics Residents Of Glasgow, Scotland - 27
Aug 2019
A spokesman for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said: "We were alerted at
3.19am on Tuesday, August 27 to a small amount of refuse on fire at Carbeth
Street, Glasgow.
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Bright flash of light, loud boom filmed in Acworth, Georgia - On August 30,
2019
a bright flash of light and loud boom from an exploding meteor was recorded on a
home surveillance camera in Acworth, Georgia. The footage was uploaded to the
American Meteor Society by M. Nixon.
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What was that loud boom heard in northern York County, Pennsylvania? -
August 31, 2019
York County 911 received several calls late Friday night about a loud boom in
the northern end of the county, according to a dispatcher. One of the calls came
around 10:50 p.m. from the area of Siddonsburg Road and Glen Arden Drive in
Fairview Township.
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Bright meteor fireball streaks over Edmonton, Canada - August 31, 2019
Rain wasn't the only thing falling in our city this evening, social media was
flooded with reports of a sighting of what appears to be a meteor over Edmonton.
- Secondary Data
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Closer Than The Moon: 3 Giant Asteroids Whizz By Earth In One Day This Week
- 25 Jul 2019
The Earth has been spared from an apocalyptic scenario after three massive
asteroids zipped by our planet on Wednesday - with one of the giant space rocks
passing closer than the Moon.
With a diameter of up to 120 meters, asteroid 2019 OD soared past our planet
moving at roughly 43,000 miles per hour at a distance of 222,160 miles from
Earth, NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) said. The celestial
object capable of inflicting massive damage was closer to Earth than our
immediate satellite the Moon, which lies 238,900 miles away.
Asteroids 2019 OE and 2015 HM10 also zipped by Earth at a distance of 600,494
miles and 2,914,164 miles, respectively. NASA discovers an average of 30 Near-
Earth Objects (NEOs) every week - and the chances of a large NEO colliding with
Earth is astronomically small.
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'City-Killer' Asteroid Bigger Than Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza Nearly Misses
Earth (Photo, Video) - 25.07.2019
An asteroid about 100 metres in diameter has become the largest known asteroid
to fly by Earth within 1 lunar distance since the start of the year.
The newly discovered asteroid dubbed "2019 OK" flew by Earth at a distance of
just 70,000 kilometres (43,496 miles) at 11:22 a.m. on 25 July 2019. The
asteroid reportedly flew at a speed of about 24 kilometres a second.
According to NASA, the object is nearly two-times taller than the Great Pyramid
of Giza in Egypt and 2.7-times as tall as the Statue of Liberty in New York and
is also about 2.5-times taller than Big Ben in London.
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Spectacular Delta Aquariids meteor shower set to light up skies tonight - 28
Jul 2019
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A Meteor Just Exploded On Jupiter, And A Photographer Actually Caught It On
Video - 8 Aug. 2019
On 7 August 2019, at 4:07 UTC, Ethan Chappel in Texas caught the incredibly rare
sight on camera.
"Imaged Jupiter tonight," he wrote on Twitter. "Looks awfully like an impact
flash in the [southern equatorial belt]."
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Another asteroid impact on Jupiter as astronomers capture footage of flash -
08 Aug 2019
Texas astrophotographer Ethan Chappel captured the incredible sight while he was
filming the planet, and said the event on Jupiter's southern equatorial belt
"looks awfully like an impact flash." A bright spot can be seen appearing out of
nowhere before it quickly fades away.
The impact may have left a scar that could be picked up by the Jupiter probe
Juno or other instruments.
Comment: It's not "extremely rare." It's not even "rare."
It USED to be, before 1994, when Comet Shoemaker-Levy broke up and impacted
Jupiter.
Since then, comets/asteroids have been observed hitting Jupiter on a number of
occasions...
- 26 May 2017: New impact flash seen on Jupiter
- 10 Sept 2012: Jupiter Swallows an Asteroid - or a Comet?
- 3 June 2010 + 20 August 2010: Fireballs Light Up Jupiter
- 19 July 2009: Jupiter Scar Likely from Rocky Body
Notably, this most recent one occurred almost 25 years to the day that
Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter in mid-1994.
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Meteor the Size of Earth Just Exploded on Jupiter (Video) - 09.08.2019
The event, if formally confirmed, is the seventh witnessed impact on Jupiter
after the famed SL9, or Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, similarly hit the gas titan in
1994, with the response of the planet’s surface later being studied with zeal by
astronomers.
Astronomers and avid space observers have recently caught a glimpse of something
stunning indeed, as they recorded a brief bright flash penetrating the surface
of Jupiter and triggering excitement over a possible meteor impact that occurred
on Wednesday, 7 August.
The newly registered flash is certainly a remarkable sight due to its size
equalling that of planet Earth, which has only 1/11th the diameter and 1/300th
the mass of Jupiter. In light of the apparent huge mass of explosive energy
released during the collision, this would make the seventh recorded impact on
Jupiter since Shoemaker-Levy, the website Sky and Telescope's Bob King alleged.
The news comes amid a recent scare caused by reports of
hordes of mammoth space rocks travelling in Earth’s direction and fuelling
scientific interest as well as concerns over the so-called "potentially
hazardous" objects.
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Perseids meteor shower to peak Monday night with stunning FIREBALL displays
- 12 Aug 2019
Widely seen as one of the most entertaining celestial events of the year, the
Perseids meteor shower is caused by meteoroids from the debris trail of the
Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle which orbits the sun once every 133 years.
For those who can't make it outside, NASA is running a live camera feed from
Alabama starting around 6pm PT on August 12 as is the Virtual Telescope Project
in Europe from 3pm PT.
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Newly Discovered Interstellar Object Is Heading Our Way - 12 Sep 2019
Gennady Borisov of Crimea spotted the interstellar space rock on August 30. It
amshas now been given the official name of C/2019 Q4 (Borisov) by the Minor Planet
Center.
Thankfully, the rock poses no risk of colliding with the Earth and making us go
the way of the dinosaurs.
The comet has what's known as a 'Hyperbolic trajectory' meaning that it hasn't
been interfered with by our sun's gravity which suggests it originated from deep
space, outside of our solar system.
- IMPACT THREAT LEVEL ORANGE09/01/19 to 09/24/19
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2012 Meteor Shower Calendar
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AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2019 (UTC) EVENTS: M10-
50, L51-150, H151+
IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2019 (UTC)
The Latest Worldwide Meteor / Fireball Reports - Summary
- DATE/REPORTS - Meteorites (Comet Fragments) Of Frozen Organic Gases?
- 01 SEP/27 EVENTS H-1,M-1
27H-1,M-1
- 02 SEP/22 EVENTS M-1
22 M-1
- 03 SEP/17 EVENTS
1704 SEP/23 EVENTS
23
- 05 SEP/18 EVENTS M-1
18M-1
- 06 SEP/13 EVENTS M-1
13M-1
- 07 SEP/25 EVENTS M-2
25M-2
- 08 SEP/21 EVENTS H-1,M-1
21H-1,M-1
- 09 SEP/25 EVENTS
25
- 10 SEP/19 EVENTS
19
- 11 SEP/14 EVENTS M-1
14 M-1
- 12 SEP/29 EVENTS H-1
29 H-1
- 13 SEP/36 EVENTS L-3, M-4
36 L-3, M-4
- 14 SEP/16 EVENTS M-1
16M-1
- 15 SEP/19 EVENTS L-1,M-2
19 L-1,M-2
- 16 SEP/21 EVENTS
21
- 17 SEP/15 EVENTS M-3
15M-3
- 18 SEP/16 EVENTS L-1,M-2
16L-1,M-2
- 19 SEP/24 EVENTS M-1
24M-1
- 20 SEP/25 EVENTS
25
- 21 SEP/28 EVENTS
28
- 22 SEP/19 EVENTS M-2
19M-2
- 23 SEP/15 EVENTS
15
- 24 SEP/12 EVENTS L-1
12L-1
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American Meteor Society: Loud boom heard in central New York caused by
meteor - 02 Sep 2019
People living in Oswego, Madison and Onondaga counties reported hearing a loud
'boom' just after 5 p.m. on Monday that, in some cases, shook their homes.
Robert Lunsford of the American Meteor Society says a fireball, which was larger
and brighter than typical meteors, entered the Earth's atmosphere over Lake
Ontario. It also caused a loud sound.
"Fireballs that are larger than normal and manage to penetrate down to the lower
atmosphere will produce a sonic boom. The folks that did report some sound, they
happen to be pretty close to the track of this object," Lunsford said.
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https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2019/4217 - 03 Sep
2019
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Mystery boom resounds throughout northern New York; shakes buildings - 06
Sep 2019
Many people said it sounded like it was coming from inside their building on on
their block. But it wasn't just local; people heard it around the same time
across a huge swath of northern New York. In
response to an Enterprise Facebook post, people wrote that they had heard it as
far west as Cranberry Lake, as far north as Malone, as far east as AuSable Forks
and as far south as Eagle Bay, plus throughout the Tri-Lakes villages.
That boom was heard in Saranac Lake 10:13 a.m. Some people also reported hearing
a later one, perhaps around 1 p.m.
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Mysterious sonic boom-like noise baffles residents in Glasgow, Scotland -
08 Sep 2019
A mysterious "sonic boom" has been baffling people after it was heard over
Glasgow this afternoon.
The loud boom was captured on video my a concerned resident around 3:17pm, but
the source remains unexplained.
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Bright slow-moving meteor fireball recorded over the English Channel - 09
Sep 2019
A bright, slow-moving meteor fireball was recorded over the English Channel on
September 8, 2019. The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 179 reports from
people living across England and northern France.
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'It got bigger and bigger and bigger and popped': Meteor fireball sighted off
K?piti Coast, New Zealand - 09 Sep 2019
Now the Paekakariki man believes what he saw off the K?piti Coast about 1.20pm
on Monday was likely a meteor that was also spotted over Nelson.
"It was like a streak of light screaming across the sky," Wheaton said. "It got
bigger and bigger and bigger and popped."
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Meteor fireball lights up sky over R?ga, Latvia - 13 Sep 2019
On the evening of September 9, a fireball was seen in the sky over R?ga. The
object was identified as a bolide - an extremely bright meteor - by the
StarSpace observatorija astronomy page.
It was caught on one of the LTV webcams in the Latvian Television building.
StarSpace observatorija noticed a fireball burning in the R?ga sky, seen for
about 5 to 6 seconds and burning out mutely with a blue-green flame and a long
tail.
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Meteor fireball streaks across San Antonio, Texas sky - 09 Sep 2019
The American Meteor Society confirmed the meteor sighting, which took place
Saturday around 10 p.m.
The meteor was seen here in Texas as well as several other states, including New
Mexico and Louisiana.
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Big bright meteor fireball spotted in the Netherlands - 12 Sep 2019
On Thursday afternoon, September 12th, a large, bright meteor/fireball was
spotted in the sky over northern parts of the Netherlands. It was seen around
14.50 above Langeoog, an East Frisian Island north of Germany.
While most of the meteor appears to have burned up in the atmosphere, a piece as
large as a "fist or a soccer ball" likely ended up in the North Sea.
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Meteor fireball streaks across the North Carolina sky - 13 Sep 2019
A car dashcam recorded a fireball streaking across the night sky in North
Carolina.
An ABC11 viewer recorded the video Thursday night while driving on Raleigh Road
in Wilson toward Airport Boulevard.
In the top right of the screen, a bright light can be seen entering the frame
and streaking toward the horizon for about three seconds.
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Stunning meteor fireball captured in central Idaho sky - 13 Sep 2019
On September 12, 2019, the American Meteor Society received a report of a meteor
soaring over Glenns Ferry, Idaho. Anna Morris captured the footage with her
meteor cam:
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Meteor fireball seen flying through the night sky in Parana, Brazil - 13 Sep
2019
On September 13, 2019, the American Meteor Society (AMS) received 12 reports of
a meteor over the State of Parana, Brazil. AMS member 'Alessandro R' uploaded
footage of the event:
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Meteor fireball brightens skies over southern California - 17 Sep 2019
On September 15th, just two days prior, AMS member 'Tina N.' photographed a
meteor as it flew over Cabazon, Calfornia, east of Los Angeles:
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In two days, meteor fireballs were reported in the northeast US - 17 Sep
2019
On September 17, 2019, The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 19 reports of
a meteor flying over New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West
Virginia.
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Meteor fireball brightens skies over southern California - 17 Sep 2019
On September 17, 2019, the American Meteor Society (AMS) received 63 reports of
a fireball seen over southern California. AMS members Alexander O. and
Lightvalve recorded footage of the event:
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Striking photo captures moment meteor fireball flies over Sunderland,
England - 18 Sep 2019
Resident Umit Inanc said he spotted the impressive space matter while having a
cigarette outside of his home on Oldfield Close, Southwick, on Sunday, September
15.
He said he looked up into the sky at around 10.10pm and saw the meteor flying
through the sky.
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Mysterious 'loud bang' heard in northern Scotland - 18 Sep 2019
The noise was heard by people in and around Ullapool at about 20:00.
British Geological Survey has ruled out an earthquake and the RAF said it was
not a sonic boom caused by one of its jets.
The UK Meteor Network said it was possible the sound was caused by a fireball,
but it had received no reports of one from Scotland.
It also said it was unconnected to meteors spotted from England at 20:17 and
20:45.
The UK Meteor Network said if it was an exploding fireball this would have
occurred 20 to 30 minutes prior to the sound being heard on the ground.
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Mysterious boom causes panic in Davidson, North Carolina - 20 Sep 2019
Families in a Davidson community are frightened after hearing a mysterious loud
boom on Monday. The Davidson Police Department is investigating.
"So I was putting her down for a nap and I swear it like shook our entire
house," Jacqueline Hawtin said. "I was scared."
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'Fireball' meteor lights up skies over Tasmania and Victoria - 21 Sep
2019
A fireball meteor — possibly as small as a tennis ball — has burst into the
Earth's atmosphere causing a flash of light and a sound "like thunder" over
Tasmania and Victoria, causing some to fear the worst.
The object flew across the horizon just before 8:30pm (AEST), with videos being
shared by excited eyewitnesses in both states.
- Secondary Data
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NASA turned blind eye to car-sized asteroid that exploded over Caribbean -
06 Sep 2019
The agency said that it has detected and flagged bigger asteroids than the one
in question. It has also confirmed that it was sure the space rock would do no
harm as it wouldn't survive entry into the atmosphere.
NASA has detected but not taken measures against an asteroid that entered the
Earth's atmosphere and exploded over the Caribbean.
The space agency admitted in a statement that the rock, measuring about 5 meters
in size and designated 2019 MO, was first spotted when it was about 500,000
kilometres from Earth, just before it hit the atmosphere.
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Double feature: Not one but TWO asteroids set to fly by Earth this weekend -
13 Sep 2019
NASA is brushing off any asteroid alarmism with assurances that Earth is under
no immediate danger from incoming space rocks while revealing that two are set
to pass our planet safely in the coming days.
Asteroid 2010 C01, measuring roughly 400 to 850 feet (120 to 260 meters) in
size, will fly by late on September 13, followed by 2000 QW7 at 950 to 2,100
feet (290 to 650 meters) in the early hours of September 14.
"Both of these asteroids are passing at about 14 lunar distances from the Earth,
or about 3.5 million miles away, but small asteroids pass by Earth this close
all the time,"said NASA planetary defense officer Lindley Johnson.
"These asteroids have been well observed — once since 2000 and the other since
2010 — and their orbits are very well known."
- IMPACT THREAT LEVEL RED 09/25/19 to 11/11/19
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2012 Meteor Shower Calendar
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AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2019 (UTC) EVENTS: M10-
50, L51-150, H151+
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- DATE/REPORTS - Meteorites (Comet Fragments) Of Frozen Organic Gases?
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Night sky illuminated by huge meteor fireball over London, England - 25 Sep
2019
It was previously reported that a large asteroid was approaching Earth. Its
diameter is approximately 190 to 430 metres, making it twice as large as the
famous Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt.
According to eyewitnesses, London has been illuminated by a meteor, with some of
them managing to record the dramatic footage.
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Stunning meteor fireball filmed exploding over the Mediterranean Sea - 25
Sep 2019
The SMART project captured footage of an 'amazing meteor' as it soared over the
Mediterranean Sea on September 25, 2019:
It was generated by a rock from a comet that hit the atmosphere at about 140,000
km/h. It began at an altitude of about 108 km over the sea, and ended at a
height of around 60 km.
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Meteor fireball caught on camera flying across southern Victoria, Australia
- 26 Sep 2019
oss said the meteor was bright but wasn't travelling as fast as a regular meteor
would.
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Meteor fireball widely reported over northern Germany - 29 Sep 2019
The American Meteor Society has received 157 reports about a meteor fireball
seen over northern and eastern Germany on Friday, September 27th 2019 around
17:32 UT.
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Bright meteor fireball flies over the north of Spain - 27 Sep 2019
On September 27, 2019, the SMART projected recorded a bright meteor as it flew
over the provinces of Segovia, Valladolid and Zamora, Spain:,BR.
This fireball flew over the provinces of Segovia, Valladolid and Zamora on the
night of September 27, at 22:40 local time.
A rock from an asteroid at a speed of about 111 thousand kilometers per hour
came into the earth's atmosphere. The ball of fire advanced westward to end
south of the province of Zamora.
- Sep 28, 2019: More Meteorites (Comet Fragments) Of Frozen Organic Gases?
Video Sept. 28 On Youtube, Showing What Appears To Be 14 Glowing Orbs Over
The Water.
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Meteor Fireball Seen Soaring Over Sao Paulo, Brazil - 29 Sep 2019
On September 29, 2019, a meteor was captured by EXOSS as it flew over Sao Paulo,
Brazil. The footage was uploaded to the American Meteor Society by 'Eduardo S':
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Bright Flash From Meteor Fireball Captured On Home Surveillance Camera In Denham
Springs, Louisiana - 30 Sep 2019
On September 30, 2019, American Meteor Society member 'J. Prestridge' captured
video of a bright flash of light attributed to a meteor on her home surveillance
camera:
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Daytime Fireball Meteor Explodes Over Queensland Emitting A Deafening Sonic
Boom - 02 Oct 2019
The 'very bright flash of light' was seen in the skies around 1.30pm spanning
hundreds of kilometres around Cairns.
It was followed by a sonic boom which left some locals wondering if there had
been an earthquake.
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Bright Meteor Fireball Flies Over Northeastern Portugal - 03 Oct 2019
On October 3, 2019, the SMART project captured yet another fireball; this time,
it flew over northeastern Portugal:
The meteor was reportedly generated from a comet that hit the atmosphere at
about 230,000 km/h. It began at an altitude of about 135 km over the northeast
of Portugal, and ended at a height of around 96 km over southwest of that
country.
On the same day, The American Meteor Society received 18 reports of a meteor
over the Netherlands. The increasing number of fireballs reported on the planet
doesn't bode well for humanity
Bright meteor event on October 3
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Meteor Fireball (Or Two) Blazes Over Ireland - Also Seen From Scotland And
Wales - 06 Oct 2019
Another big meteor fireball was seen a couple of nights ago, at around 9pm on
October 4th, this time over Ireland and western parts of the UK. In fact, we're
not sure that it was one solitary object.
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Rare Daytime Sextantid Meteor Observed Over Arizona - 07 Oct 2019
This weekend, NASA's Network of All Sky Meteor Cameras captured a rare fireball-
-a "Daytime Sextantid." Here it is disintegrating over Arizona just before
sunrise on Saturday, Oct. 5th:
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Meteor Fireball Seen Flying Over Washington State, Southern British Columbia
- 06 Oct 2019
On October 6, 2019, the American Meteor Society (AMS) received 35 reports of a
meteor over Washington state and southern British Columbia, Canada. AMS member
'Erik K.' from Seattle captured footage of the fireball on his doorbell camera:
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Over 100 Report Seeing Large Meteor Fireball Over Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio,
Pennsylvania And West Virginia - 07 Oct 2019
If you saw a fireball streak across the sky on Saturday evening you're not
alone.10TV received several reports from people in central Ohio who saw a bright
meteor with a long trail across the sky.
The American Meteor Society says it received more than 130 reports about the
fireball, seen over Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
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Meteor Fireball Lights Up Sky Across California - 08 Oct 2019
California residents took to social media Monday night to report a glowing
fireball across the night sky over multiple cities including Sacramento, Lynwood
and San Diego.
One social media user caught a video of the fireball shooting across the sky
while he was driving.
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Meteor Fireball Widely Reported Over France - 11 Oct 2019
The American Meteor Society (AMS) has received 246 reports about a meteor
fireball seen over France (Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Île-de-France, Bourgogne-
Franche-Comté, Bretagne, Centre-Val de Loire, Grand Est, Hauts-de-France,
Normandie, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie, Pays de la Loire and Provence-Alpes-
Côte d'Azur) on Wednesday, October 9th 2019 around 17:47 UT.
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Brilliant Midnight Meteor Fireball Lights Up Sky Over Northeast China - 13
Oct 2019
It turned night into day.
What appears to be a dazzling meteor lit up the sky over northeast China on
Friday (Oct. 11), appearing as a brilliant fireball in surveillance videos of
the event.
The meteor occurred at about 12:16 a.m. Beijing Time, turning night into day and
casting dark shadows as it streaked through the sky, according to the state-run
CCTV. Videos of the fireball were captured by surveillance cameras in the city
of Songyuan in the province of Jilin, as well as by many residents across
northeast China, CCTV reported.
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Meteor fireball soars over Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and
Switzerland - 13 Oct 2019
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 238 reports of a fireball over
Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland on October 13, 2019.
Several AMS members captured photos and videos of the event.
Video footage from AMS members 'Marco H' and 'Christophe F':
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Watch: Meteor fireball over the Mediterranean - 15 Oct 2019
SMART project detectors at the Calar Alto observatory in the Filabres mountains
and at observatories in the Sierra Nevada and Seville captured stunning images
of the fireball as it made its way across the night sky at 3.44 am on October 13
at an altitude of some 95 kilometres.
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Slow-moving bright meteor fireball over Trinidad and Tobago - 17 Oct
2019
SOME lucky citizens were on Tuesday night treated to what appeared to be a
meteor blazing its way into Earth's atmosphere, looking much like a comet as it
streaked across the sky.
The fireball appeared to have been visible mostly to those living in Central and
Northern Trinidad and a number of people yesterday posted video clips of the
celestial activity, accompanied by exclamations of wonder.
According to the Trinidad and Tobago Weather Centre, most people said the event
took place between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m.
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NASA Footage Shows Huge Explosion Of Meteor Fireball In Skies Above Arizona
- 17 Oct 2019
The video showed a fireball travelling at more than 200,000 kilometres per hour
light up the night sky over Arizona yesterday. The space rock was part of the
relatively newly-discovered meteor shower, the October Ursae Majorids, which was
only deemed separate from the usual October Orionid and Taurid meteors in 2007.
NASA said the small object was travelling at a staggering 57.2 kilometres per
second
NASA has traced the meteor back to the Big Dipper constellation, which allowed
the space agency to confidently state it is part of the October Ursae Majorids
shower.
The meteor shower peaks during mid-October, and on clear nights one fireball can
be seen per hour on average.
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Meteor Fireball In Missouri Seen Hundreds Of Miles Away In Northwest
Arkansas - 18 Oct 2019
A fireball streaking across the night sky near Kansas City, Missouri spotted
hundreds of miles away in Northwest Arkansas.
Residents of Northwest Arkansas self-reported seeing a fireball in the northern
evening sky Thursday evening.
According to AMSMeteors.org, 20 reports about a fireball seen over Arkansas,
Illinois, Missouri, and Oklahoma on Thursday, October 17th, 2019 around 8:21
p.m. CT.
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Mysterious boom spurs fear, confusion in Mount Vernon, Ohio - 21 Oct
2019
A dozen Mount Vernon residents called 911 on Sunday night (Oct 20) saying they
heard a loud bang, according to 911 calls obtained by Knox Pages. But 24 hours
later, local authorities still have no idea where the noise came from.
Those who reported the loud boom on Sunday night seemed scared and confused. A
woman calling from North Mulberry Street seemed to tremble as she described a
"loud explosion." A man calling from West Curtis Street said it "shook the hell
out of our house," and a woman calling from East Burgess Street said she had
retreated indoors, in case it was a gunshot.
"It was the kind of boom like if you're very, very close to fireworks," the
caller said.
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Loud booms heard in Genesee County, Michigan
attributed to meteor - 22 Oct 2019
Around 7:45 ET last night, a series of loud booms were heard throughout the
area. We heard them in Burton and, according to Facebook, they were heard in
Davison and Holly, too.
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Meteor fireball caught on dash-cam as it flies over California - 22 Oct
2019
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 25 reports of a meteor over
California on October 22, 2019. AMS member 'Paul M.' caught footage of the
fireball on his dash-cam as it flew over Leona Valley.
The AMS also received reports the same day of a fireball over San Antonio,
Texas. Footage was uploaded to their website by AMS member 'Brad S.
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Grimsby, England residents report late-night 'deafening bang' - 28 Oct
2019
Did you hear the "deafening bang" that awoke residents last night?
The noise was was heard at around 11pm last night, and there have been a number
of theories about what may have caused it, ranging from a sonic boom to
neighbours putting their bins out too loudly - although as it was heard from as
far away as Waltham and Killingholme, the latter is unlikely.
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Large green meteor fireball widely observed flying over IrelandLarge green
meteor fireball widely observed flying over IrelandLarge green meteor fireball
widely observed flying over Ireland - 28 Oct 2019
An Irish driver has captured stunning footage of a low-flying meteor over Co
Cork.
Sean Linehan was driving near Banteer, Co Cork at around 7pm on Monday night
when we recorded amazing footage of the green meteor on his dashcam.
A spokesman said: "We've had sightings all over the country. From Cork to Clare,
Fermanagh to Dublin, Sligo, Galway.
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Meteor fireball streaks over northeast Ontario - 28 Oct 2019
People across northeastern Ontario are still talking about seeing a fireball
falling through the sky during the evening hours on October 29.
It happened around 6:30 p.m. and social media lit like the fireball people
reported seeing streaking across the horizon.
"We've always watched the meteor showers in August at the cottage, so you can
see all of the white streaks just all over the sky... but
this was completely different because it was red and bright. It was a massive fireball. To see something like that, you see
videos of it, but to actually see it with your own eyes... videos don't do it
justice," says Hamlin.
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Doorbell camera captures 'huge' meteor fireball over Southern California -
02 Nov 2019
#fireball #meteor at 12:56:56am 11/2/19 - camera facing North. Lake Forest,
California #orangecounty
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Loud house-shaking boom rattles residents in Wichita, Kansas - 02 Nov
2019
Beginning around 1:40 p.m., Sedgwick County emergency dispatchers fielded many
calls about "possible explosions."
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Big boom, bright streak of light across the sky over Pacific Northwest was a
meteor - 04 Nov 2019
The awe wasn't confined to the Seattle area. A Reddit user in Vancouver, B.C.,
reported seeing "a relatively large streak of light cut diagonally across the
sky tonight around 11:30 p.m. We're in the Dunbar and 16th area and saw it in a
north-northwest direction, about 30 degrees up. I thought it was just white, my
girlfriend said it was rainbow coloured.
Mike Hankey of the American Meteor Society confirmed that it was, indeed, a
meteor. The organization received about 30 reports of the sighting on Sunday
night, Hankey said.
Hankey said that usually indicates that the meteor "penetrated deep enough into
the atmosphere to create a sonic boom. This means the underlying mass is larger
than a typical meteor."
Comment: The East Oregonian reports the boom shook windows, doors and rattled
walls in northeast Oregon:
"It was a loud boom that lasted a long time and rattled the walls," said Crystal
McKee, who lives near the center of town.
"It sounded like they were lighting off dynamite in the park," said Jason
Martinez. He lives across the street from Athena City Park, which sits at the
southern edge of town.
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Two in two days: Another meteor fireball seen over Southern California - 04
Nov 2019
On November 4, 2019, a meteor was caught flying through the sky in Acton,
California. Patrick L. caught the fireball on his dashcam and uploaded it to the
American Meteor Society (AMS). The AMS received 6 additional sighting reports
from San Diego to Long Beach.
Just two days prior, a fireball was seen soaring over the state.
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Meteor fireball soars over Germany, the Netherlands - 04 Nov 2019
On November 4, 2019, the American Meteor Society received 25 reports of a meteor
over Germany and the Netherlands. There were two reports of the fireball being
seen from northeastern France.
AMS member Stefan F. caught footage of event from Viernheim, Hesse, Germany:
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Meteor fireball lights up sky in metro Atlanta, Georgia - 07 Nov 2019
he American Meteor Society received 39 reports of this fireball. It was also
seen in North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
Events in 2019 5510-2019
We received 41 reports about a fireball seen over GA, NC, SC, TN, VA and WV on
Wednesday, November 6th 2019 around 23:29 UT.
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Meteor fireball reported over France; seen in Switzerland, Germany - 06 Nov
2019
On November 6, 2019, the American Meteor Society (AMS) received 14 reports of a
fireball over southeastern France. The meteor was also seen in Switzerland and
Germany.
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Mystery bang, flash of light rocks homes in Coventry, England - 08 Nov
2019
Social media was rife last night after 'loud bangs', an 'explosion' and a
'massive flash' were seen and heard over the city.
People living across the north of the Coventry were shocked when they heard the
loud bangs in the early hours.
Across social media, more than one bang was heard, with people saying it sounded
louder than a firework.
One said: "I've just heard a massive bang", while another said "what the hell
was that."
Bedroom lights were reported to have dimmed while flashing lights were said to
have lit up rooms inside the houses.
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Flash of light, loud boom shakes up Cabarrus County, North Carolina
residents - 08 Nov 2019
Residents in Cabarrus County flooded the 911 call center after they said there
was a loud boom and bright flash in the sky overnight Friday.
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Bright meteor fireball streaks across the US East Coast - 10 Nov 2019
The meteor was seen about 7:40 p.m. from New York to North Carolina, with
several reports from the D.C. area, including Leesburg and Vienna.
- Secondary Data
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Asteroid swarm: SEVEN asteroids to zoom past Earth today! NINE more later this
week... - 08 Oct 2019
The largest asteroid from the group is bigger than the Great Pyramid of Giza in
Egypt. According to the agency's Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS),
Earth will see a total of seven asteroids fly past on October 8. As noted by
CNEOS, these asteroids are 2019 TU, 2019 TW1, 2019 RK, 2019 TC1, 2019 SB6, 2019
TM and 2019 TS.
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Asteroid Swarm: NASA Detects 16 Space Rocks Hurtling Towards Earth This Week
- 12 Oct 2019
The largest asteroid from the group is bigger than the Great Pyramid of Giza in
Egypt. According to the agency's Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS),
Earth will see a total of seven asteroids fly past on October 8. As noted by
CNEOS, these asteroids are 2019 TU, 2019 TW1, 2019 RK, 2019 TC1, 2019 SB6, 2019
TM and 2019 TS.
Although most of these asteroids will approach Earth from very safe distances,
one of them is expected to fly close to the planet.
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111-Foot Asteroid Screeching Towards Earth At Over 22,000 Miles Per Hour -
13 Oct 2019
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An Asteroid Flew Past Earth Last Night. No One Knew About It Until It Was
Gone - 16 Oct 2019
Asteroid 2019 SR8 is considered a 'near-Earth object' or NEO by NASA, and
whizzed past us at a distance of over 3 million miles around 03:45 BST
Wednesday. SR8 measures between 65 and 144 feet in diameter (20 and 44 meters).
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NASA Warns Space Rock Twice The Size Of Eiffel Tower Due To Skim Past Earth In
November - 22 Oct 2019
The seemingly never-ending stream of Earth-bound space rocks continues, as an
Apollo-class asteroid measuring between 918ft and 2,034ft in diameter (280m-
620m) is due to skim past our planet on November 21.
Affectionately dubbed '481394 (2006 SF6),' the asteroid is traveling at a speed
of roughly 17,780mph (27,360kph) and will make what NASA dubs a 'close approach'
shortly after midnight (GMT) in mid-November at a distance of 2.6 million miles
(4.2 million kilometers) away, or approximately eleven times as far away as the
Moon.
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Incoming! Five asteroids flew past Earth Friday - one twice as big as Empire
State Building - 25 Oct 2019
Five asteroids will skim past Earth today and one of them is bigger than the
tallest building in the world.
Asteroid 1998 HL1 is so big that some astronomers think it will be possible to
see from Earth.
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Halloween surprise! Asteroid narrowly missed Earth yesterday - Discovered as it
flew by - Closest on record - 31 Oct 2019
Even space rocks are supplying jump scares on Halloween, just like your favorite
horror flick.
A near-Earth asteroid currently identified as C0PPEV1 was spotted in the early
morning hours Thursday by the Catalina Sky Survey, based in Arizona, and shortly
thereafter by New Mexico's Magdalena Ridge Observatory and Arizona's Mt. Lemmon
Steward Observatory.
According to data from these early observations, the asteroid came closer to the
surface of our planet (without actually colliding with our atmosphere) than any
other close approach in NASA's database of known near-Earth objects.
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Yet another asteroid just skimmed Earth - ONE day after it was discovered -
03 Nov 2019
Earlier today, planet Earth was buzzed by a tiny asteroid that ventured
incredibly close to the planet's surface, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (JPL) have announced. Cruising through space at speeds of a little
over 19,300 mph, the minuscule space rock passed closer than the moon, creeping
in within just 65,100 miles of Earth.
To put that into perspective, the moon sits at an average distance of 238,900
miles from Earth. This means that during today's extremely close flyby of Earth,
the tiny rock flew at just 0.28 times the distance to the moon.
Notice how, two paragraphs in, this report has already described the
asteroid as "tiny" twice, and "miniscule". They haven't even reported what size
range or estimate astronomers have given it, yet they're already opining on with
their baseless threat assessment. This is typical of space weather reporting,
which is generally abominable.
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ANOTHER one! Chelyabinsk-sized asteroid skims Earth, third close fly-by in 5
days - 04 Nov 2019
A 65-foot asteroid is set to shoot past the Earth at 26,843mph in a close flyby
altitude of just 107,850 miles. Worryingly, NASA's space rock hunters only
spotted the asteroid about a week ago.
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They just keep coming: Skyscraper-sized asteroid due to pass Earth this week
- 11 Nov 2019
Asteroid 2019 UN12 is estimated to measure between 110m-250m (360-820.21ft), or
roughly five Statues of Liberty standing on top of each other, and will whizz
past the Earth on Wednesday at a whopping 64,467mph.
Thankfully, it will speed by at a relatively safe distance of 892,294 miles
(1,436,008km),
- IMPACT THREAT LEVEL YELLOW11/11/19 to 12/31/19
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2012 Meteor Shower Calendar
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AMS Fireball Sightings Log: 2019 (UTC) EVENTS: M10-
50, L51-150, H151+
IMO Fireball Sightings Log: 2019 (UTC)
The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Fireball Reports - Summary
- DATE/REPORTS - Meteorites (Comet Fragments) Of Frozen Organic Gases?
- 12 NOV/39 EVENTS M-1
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Fireball lights up the skies over St. Louis during Northern Taurid meteor
shower - 12 Nov 2019
Cameras in St. Louis, Missouri caught what appeared to be a meteor falling from
the skies on Monday night, KSDL and KMOV reported.
Both stations reported that local residents saw a flash of light and loud noise
at about 8:55 p.m. local time (9:55 p.m. ET).
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Spectacular meteor fireball caught on camera above St. Louis, Missouri - Event
seen from across US Midwest - 12 Nov 2019
Local news station KMOV reported that the jaw-dropping meteor was spotted "from
Columbia to St. Charles County and into St. Louis County and south St. Louis
City," before disappearing into the night over Wellsville.
Reports of a fireball - a bright, slow-moving meteor - began to emerge at
roughly 8:45 p.m. local time, with some residents reporting that the flashing
rock was accompanied by the sound of a loud boom.
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Kilkenny, Ireland early risers spot giant meteor fireball in the frosty sky
- 18 Nov 2019
A giant fireball was spotted streaking over Kilkenny's frosty sky early this
morning.
Some reports are saying it was a meteorite, while some claim it landed in
neighbouring Carlow.
At 5.20am this morning, the flashing fireball was seen by those up early for
work, or those out for an early morning run. The huge fireball illuminated the
frosty and foggy sky as it shot over.
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Meteor fireball lights up sky in Costa Del Sol, Spain - 20 Nov 2019
Star gazers had a treat in the early hours of today (November 20) as a slow ball
of fire graced the sky above the Costa del Sol in Spain.
The impressive sight was a rock from a comet that entered the Earth's atmosphere
at a speed of about 47,000 kilometres per hour at 3.48 am.
The event began at an altitude of about 81 km off the coast of Malaga. From
there the fireball advanced in a northeasterly direction. It was finally
extinguished at an altitude of 38 km above sea level, at a point about 78 km off
the coast of Malaga and 83 km off the coast of Morocco, after a trajectory of 81
km in the atmosphere.
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'Large fireball' in the sky reported in Polk County, Oregon - 22 Nov 2019
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'Boom!' Sonoma Valley, California residents look to skies for answer following
nocturnal noises - 22 Nov 2019
People all over Sonoma County looked up at about 7:40 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 21,
when a brief series of "booms" rolled across the valleys. But there was no glow
in the sky, the stars were visible in the cloudless sky.
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Meteor fireball lights up night sky over northern New England - 23 Nov 2019
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Meteor fireball videoed over Lake Mendota, Wisconsin - 24 Nov 2019
A Sunday morning tweet from NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Meteorological
Satellite Studies at the UW-Madison showing a meteor flashing over Lake Mendota
drew a host of "oohs" and "ahhhs".
The video is only 13 seconds long, but you likely won't be able to watch it just
once.
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Mysterious 'Fireball' Streaks Across Oregon Sky, Leaves Cops Scratching Their
Heads - 25 Nov 2019
The Polk County Sheriff's Office initially called the object caught on camera at
about 4:45 p.m. a "large fireball" but later said it was likely a meteor.
"Fireball" was actually a contrail from Alaska Flight 845 from Portland to Kona
passing through 33,000 ft. I saw the same contrail & confirmed on FlightAware
that flight was at that same spot heading in the same direction at the same
time.
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Flash Of Light, Window-Shaking Boom Heard In Peru, Illinois - 25 Nov
2019
After a loud, deep kaboom shook windows in Peru on Sunday night (24 Nov),
neighbors began pointing fingers at possible fireworks enthusiasts.
Could it have been a fireball? Mike Hankey from American Meteor Society said
www.amsmeteors.org received 13 notifications Sunday about fireball sightings
over Iowa and Illinois. However, most of those were logged at 5:30 p.m. So, not
likely.
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Marlboro, New Jersey's Late-Night Mysterious Booms Remain Unexplained - 26
Nov 2019
Police Chief Ron Devies was in the police station when both booms rang out — the
first at 8 p.m. and the second at 8:45 p.m.
"I was indoors and our building's pretty tight. It's a brick structure," he
said, adding, "I heard it clearly."
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Night Sky Lit Up By Apparent Meteor Over Camarillo, California - 26 Nov
2019
A bright light lit up the sky over Camarillo late Monday night (25 Nov).
The unexpected sighting was witnessed by drivers on the 101 Freeway about 11:30
p.m.
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AMS event #5388-2019 - 02 Dec
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Loud Boom Shakes Houses, Damages Window In San Juan Islands, Washington - 05
Dec 2019
Tuesday night, December 3 at 11:33 p.m. there was a very loud boom that shook
houses in the Yacht Haven, Roche Harbor area of San Juan Island. People reported
hearing the sound in Friday Harbor and in the Pear Point area.
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Bright Meteor Fireball Streaks Through Night Sky Over Alabama - 05 Dec
2019
The NWS tweeted it has received multiple reports of a "vivid and long-lasting
meteor/fireball" around 7:25 p.m. Wednesday night. The video was taken at the
Shelby County Airport.
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VIDEO SHOWS STUNNING METEOR FIREBALL LIGHT UP SKY OVER HOUSTON, TEXAS - 05
Dec 2019
On Thursday, the agency received roughly 50 reports about a fireball seen over
Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. The majority of the reports came from Houston,
according to the data.
Did a meteor fly over Houston? See video of the streak - 05 Dec 2019
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Bright Meteor Fireball Reported Over Phoenix, Arizona - 07 Dec 2019
And that's what was happening Friday night (06 Dec), as numerous Twitter posts
surfaced from people who said they saw a bright light streak across the
nighttime sky over Phoenix sometime around 9:30 p.m.
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Dashcam Captures Meteor Fireball Over Greenville County, South Carolina - 13
Dec 2019
Bott said he was driving on Emily Lane, south of the Southern Connector (County
Rd. 316,) in Greenville County at 4:40 a.m. when his dashcam captured a light
streaking through the dark sky. Footage of the meteor can be seen here.
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Meteor Fireball Flying Through Sky Caught On Doorbell Camera In Hamden,
Connecticut/A> - 16 Dec 2019
Annette says her Ring doorbell camera caught a video around 5:30 a.m. Sunday of
a meteor.
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Meteor Fireball Blazed Over Anchorage, Alaska On 21 Dec 2019 - 01 Jan
2020
Anchorage police posted the video below of a meteor lighting up the night sky in
Anchorage on Dec. 21.
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Spectacular Meteor Breaks Up Over Pacific Island Of Guam - 28 Dec 2019
Dec 27, 2019" "Around 11:25pm a possible meteorite was recorded. It appeared to
have landed NE of Saipan waters. There has been no ground impact recorded at
this time. There are no reports of tsunami impacts to the Marianas at this
time."
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Meteor Believed To Have Caused Loud Boom, Flash Of Light In Saratoga County, New
York - 31 Dec 2019
Zurlo said, that according to NASA, three meteors were heading for earth on
December 29, one of which was due to hit around 11 p.m. That's right around the
time the Saratoga County Dispatch Center was flooded with 911 calls.
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Doorbell Camera Captures Meteor Fireball Streaking Over Saskatoon, Canada -
30 Dec 2019
- Secondary Data
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Amateur Crimean Astronomer Discovers New Comet In Solar System: C2019V1
(Borisov) - 14 Nov 2019
Not content with leading NASA to detect water from an alien star system on board
an interstellar visitor, Crimean amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov has
discovered another comet.
The new comet, traveling at roughly 30km per second in the patch of sky between
the Lynx and Cancer constellations, marks the ninth stellar object Borisov has
discovered. Unlike his previously discovered comet, dubbed 2I/Borisov, this one
is a resident of our solar system.
"I discovered a new comet in early November. I have just received a letter from
the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union. This is not an
interstellar comet. It's an ordinary one, which is a solar system object. It got
the name C2019V1 (Borisov). This is a confirmed discovery," Borisov told TASS
news agency.
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Huge Asteroid Twice the Size of Big Ben Whizzed Past the Earth in Near Miss
- 14.11.20019
A humongous asteroid twice the size of London's Big Ben clock tower whizzed past
the Earth on 13 November, NASA reported. The UN12, which was 790 feet long and
flew 30 time faster than a bullet, swooshed within 900,000 miles of Earth at
1:41 p.m. GMT. In cosmic terms this is a tiny distance. This big guy was among
two other celestial objects that were expected to come close to our planet on 13
November. One of them – 2019 UH1, measuring 290 feet across, whizzed past the
Earth at the speed of five miles per hour.
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Asteroid the size of the Great Pyramid could hit Earth in 2022 - 16 Nov
2019
The American space agency predicted that a 128-meter-long space rock - the size
of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt - could collide with our planet on 6 May
2022, potentially causing devastating consequences by wiping out an entire city
just in seconds and causing millions of deaths.
As JF1 is believed to strike the Earth with a power of 230 kilotons of TNT - 15
times higher than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima that was equivalent in
energy to 15 kilotons of TNT.
"Larger NEOs [Near-Earth Objects] greater than 140 meters would have the
potential to inflict severe damage to entire regions or contents," a report
delivered to the White House on the dangers of an asteroid impact back in 2018
said.
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They Just Keep Coming! NASA Tracking THREE Asteroids Headed This Way, Two
Spotted Just 2 Days Ago - 19 Nov 2019
The first of Wednesday's cosmic flybys and the largest, measuring 157.5ft to
360.8ft (48 to 110 meters) across, will be asteroid 2019 UK6, which will speed
past at approximately 6.20am GMT (1.20am EDT). It is 2019 UK6 we had most prior
warning about, as it was first observed on October 24.
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NASA Detects Three Asteroids Currently Approaching Earth, Will They Hit The
Planet? - 19 Nov 2019
NASA's system has detected three near-Earth asteroids that are expected to
approach the planet tomorrow
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Asteroids Big Enough To Destroy Cities Hit Earth More Often Than Expected,
Scientists Say - 22 Nov 2019
A scary new study has revealed that asteroids big enough to wipe out millions
of people hit Earth much more frequently than previously believed.
Research by an international team led by Professor Tim Barrows from the
University of Wollongong has found that the object probably hit us 120,000 years
ago – much more recently than the previous estimate of 300,000 years.
This finding prompted Barrows to increase the estimate of how often we are hit
by similar-sized objects. He claimed a similar impact could occur roughly once
every two centuries.
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COLLISION IN 3, 2… SCIENTISTS MAY PREDICT WHEN HUGE METEORITE WILL CRASH INTO
EARTH - 22.11.2019
"Although the rate is only one large meteor hitting Australia every 17,000
years, it isn't that simple. The craters are only found in the arid parts of
Australia. Elsewhere, craters are destroyed by geomorphic activity like river
migration or slope processes in the mountains. Since Australia has an excellent
preservation record with dated craters within the arid zone, we can extrapolate
a rate for the whole Earth. Taking into account that arid Australia is only
about one percent of the surface, the rate increases to one every 180 years or
so", Professor Barrows said.
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Gigantic, 500ft Asteroid To Fly Past Earth On Monday & Come Back In 7 Years
- 24 Nov 2019
The space rock, called 2019 VF1, was discovered this year and will pass Earth at
about 4:09am GMT on Monday.
The asteroid is 492 feet in diameter and travels more than 60 times faster than
a Boeing 747 jet.
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ANOTHER Large Asteroid, Discovered Last Week, To Make Earth Fly-By On Friday
- 01 Dec. 2019
WR3 is believed to have a diameter of between 76m to 170m. It is expected that
on December 6, the asteroid will pass within 5.44 million km of Earth at speeds
of 27,036 km/hr.
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Near-Earth Asteroid Numbers Grow - 10 Dec 2019
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Asteroid To Fly Past Earth On Friday The 13th - 12 Dec 2019
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2017 Meteor Over Australia Was A Rare 'Grazing Fireball' - 16 Dec 2019
Long Exposure Images Of Event DN170707_01. The event lasted over 90 seconds and
spanned four 30 second exposures (A, B, C, D). The fireball was first observed
at 85 km altitude, reached as low as 58 km, and then was visible until 86 km
before escaping the Earth's atmosphere. The initial velocity was 16.1 km s-1 ,
and the exit velocity after passing through the atmosphere was about 14.6 km s-1
. The images are all oriented so that the fireball travels from left to right
(west to east).
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NASA Announces Two Asteroids Will Pass By Earth On Christmas And The Day
After - 24 Dec 2019