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Resident Matthew Hope recorded the incident while he was driving on Constantia Drive in Constantia Kloof. Matthew said it was the biggest meteorite he has ever seen.
"It happened this morning when I turned from Golf Club Terrace into Constantia Drive, on the hill next to the Hyperama. It's the biggest and clearest meteorite I have ever seen, it was amazing."A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid, that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the Earth's atmosphere and impacts with the Earth's surface or that of another planet.
When the object enters the atmosphere, various factors like friction, pressure, and chemical interactions with atmospheric gases cause it to heat up and radiate energy. It then becomes a meteor and forms a fireball, also known as a shooting or falling star.
Look closely to the right hand side of this video to see the meteor
© Via YouTube/AMS American Meteor Society
Credit: Dolan Dave Las Vegas Allsky Cam.
© YouTube/Exoss Citizen Science (screen capture)
It was recorded by an Exoss Citizen Science station (Luciana Fontes) located in Vitória. Preliminary data from Exoss indicates the magnitude recorded was -5, meaning that the glow of the fireball was similar to that of the planet Venus as seen from Earth.
© YouTube/American Meteor Society (screen capture)
And have video of the event.
Credit:Joseph Gresham
© Wikimedia. The Southern Cross, near where the meteor fragment passed.
A resident spotted a massive fireball in the sky, the result of a falling meteor fragment, while stargazing last Tuesday at 19:35.
Bertus van der Merwe said he was standing outside his house, looking south, when a large fireball came from the east, moved west over the treetops and exploded. He was stunned and mesmerised, as it wasn't just a light, he could make out flames.
He said when he went back into his house, he joked that he now knew where the expression "great balls of fire" comes from.
Van der Merwe found a fireball report form on the Internet and sent it to Tim Cooper of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa for answers.
Given the size and brightness of the fireball, Cooper stated that it might have been a large meteor fragment. After determining Van der Merwe's location, Cooper plotted the path the meteor may have followed.
© TopYaps
Monday night turned into a nightmarish experience for the people of Mukundpura village when a mysterious object resembling a fireball fell on the farm of Banshi Bagha. Scared and skeptical of the object, people spent the night fearing an explosion. The area is situated on the outskirts of city of Jaipur.
Fireball spotted across DC sky
Some people around D.C., Maryland and Virginia witnessed a fireball light up the sky Tuesday night just before 10 p.m.
This fireball, which appears to be a shooting, burst of light, is actually a meteor. The meteor is a piece of debris and appears bright because it is burning up as it passes through our atmosphere.
This fireball or meteor was reported to the American Meteor Society 28 times. If a fireball or meteor were to reach Earth's surface, it would be called a meteorite.
Small meteors pass through our atmosphere almost every day, but most go undetected.
© Bill Metallinos
I had set my camera up to get a picture of our small group and before long this brilliant meteor lit up the surrounding landscape. It was approximately -8 magnitude or about 25 times brighter than Venus at its brightest -- so bright that we were bathed in a sea of blue-green light. You can see the reflection on my 16 in (41 cm) telescope, on the table at right-center and on the side of my car.
Click here to see a short animation. [Revised May 2017]
© Via YouTube/Vivint Smart Home
Comment: The American Meteor Society (AMS) have received 31 reports (Event 1891-2017) of a meteor fireball over Florida on Saturday, June 10th 2017 around 03:25 UT.