There's no doubt that last week's meteorite strike in Russia has many many people wondering which places near them have been impacted by space rocks. Using data from the Meteoritical Society, Javier de la Torre, co-founder of Vizzuality and CartoDB, whipped up a neat little heat map for The Guardian showing every point where scientists have discovered evidence of meteorite impacts.

The map shows 34,513 recorded points on Earth that have been struck by meteorites since 2,300BC. As impressive as that figure might seem, it doesn't include data for where meteorites that haven't left any evidence, like every single one that landed in an ocean, or impact sites that haven't been discovered yet.

Joe Quinn asked recently: Was the West, Texas Explosion a Meteorite Impact?

More information has come to light that suggests exactly that, and, at the very least, strengthens the idea that a 'missile' strike of some kind caused the explosion.

We now have four different video angles of the fire at the fertilizer plant.

In the first three videos, we can see the explosion that happened afterwards. In the last video, we can't see the explosion, but it gives us another vantage point of the site in flames:

Video from viewpoint #1:


Video from viewpoint #2:

A Yale expert confirmed Tuesday that an object that crashed through a house in Wolcott Friday night was a meteorite.

Larry Beck, of Williams Court in Wolcott, called police at 10:20 a.m. on Saturday and said a rock crashed through the roof of his house on Friday night and damaged the roof and copper piping, and cracked the ceiling in his kitchen.

"All the sheet rock had broken apart and it was on the floor," Beck said.

That was around the time that people from several towns along the shoreline called police and reported a loud boom that rattled windows.

Beck told police that he'd heard a loud crash and thought that a joist or rafter had broken.

Video footage, captured in the early hours of Sunday morning in Argentina, showed fans watching a band.

During the concert, a bright light appeared in the sky to the right of the stage.

It started off as a small greenish glow, before becoming a larger, brighter fireball.

The suspected meteor then fell to earth, with some locals reporting that they felt the ground shake as it hit.

The mysterious fireball, which fell in Jadrangal village here, injuring two women, was not a "meteorite", but "low intensity explosives", the state forensic experts claimed Saturday.

"It was a low intensity explosive which contained radicals of Barium Nitrate, Aluminium and Iron Oxide, normally used in incendiary projectiles," Dr Arun Sharma, Director, Himachal Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory told reporters here.

In a first-of-its-kind incident, two women sustained minor injuries as the explosives fell from the sky on the village on March 21.

Two women were doing some household work when the fireball hit the surface and some of its parts fell on the women after splitting following which they sustained burn injuries on arms and back.

The rumours of it being a meteorite started spreading soon after the incident.

A strong and strange light crossed the sky over Santiago shocking the thousands of people who went out to enjoy a Saturday night. It was exactly at 3:20 am. It came with a strong noise and shake. The phenomenon was perceived in Tucumán also. The police is investigating the strange phenomenon, since there are so many calls reporting the event.

A loud boom was heard throughout several towns along the Connecticut shoreline and in New Haven County Friday evening, prompting several 911 calls and brief flurry of social media posts.

Madison 911 Communications Center numerous calls from people reporting what sounded like an explosion shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, according to a post on Facebook, " ... along shoreline neighborhoods and as far north as County Road and Guilford Lakes. Also getting reports of the same thing as far west as West Haven and Milford. Anybody know what happened???"

The post on the Madison 911 Communications Center Facebook page quickly received responses from people as far inland as Haddam.

The whole world seems content to assume that, because the Texas explosion two days ago occurred at a fertilizer factory, it must have been fertilizer that caused the explosion. The problem with that theory is that the factory in question did not stock the commonly used fertilizer, ammonium nitrate, which is a solid, prone to exploding (with the proper ignition source) and is widely used by farmers and bomb makers (both the legal and illegal kinds). What the factory did stock was anhydrous ammonium, a gas, that is less volatile and, when ignited, less likely to explode with such force as seen at the West plant. For this reason, all mainstream media reports that have attempted to explain the explosion have been forced to refer to ammonium nitrate, despite the fact that there was no ammonium nitrate at the plant. This historical revisionism has already infected Wikipedia (no surprise there), where the West explosion is referred to as having been caused by ammonium nitrate.

(Translated by SOTT)

"On Tuesday evening, a very bright meteor appeared over southern Poland." said Mariusz Wisniewski from the Comet and Meteor Workshop (PKiM) astronomic association. April 16, 2013 at 22:26 the sky over the Polish-Czech-Slovak border was illuminated by a very bright fireball. The fireball has been recorded by many fireball stations in the Polish Fireball Network and also by stations in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. An analysis of these recordings is in process. Preliminary estimates lead to the conclusion that this was a very long phenomenon. It was recorded over a distance of nearly 250 km. High-speed entry into the atmosphere and the height at which the fireball vanished exclude a possibility of finding any meteorites.

Eyewitnesses talked about its blue-green color and an apparent visible fragmentation. A photographer from Hungary was extremely lucky. He registered the final phase of the fireball's flight with his camera with telephoto lens. The pictures clearly show the color of the phenomenon, an orange trail left behind, and several clearly separated fragments at the end.

A loud boom was heard Monday night in Bridge City around 8:50 p.m. and there are still more questions than answers.

Calls to local law offcials have not found any answers into what exactly caused the loud boom that had people filling up social media sites.

Orange Leader editor Gabriel Pruett, who lives in Bridge City, drove through the town shortly after the boom was heard and saw no signs of an explosion.

"It was a very loud boom," Pruett said. "I was on the phone on my front porch on Birch Street and could not believe the person I was talking to did not hear the noise through the phone.

"The boom shook not only my house but my body and I still felt the vibration in my body 20 minutes later. It definitely packed a punch. There were no power outages from what I saw and Chemical Row and Entergy all looked normal after I drove through the area."

A dispatcher with Bridge City Police Department said on Tuesday plants on Chemical Row in Orange reported no explosions. Monday night an official with Entergy had reported to police there were no explosions at that plant.