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Fireball meteor seen in the sky over Alaska on October 15

Ned Rozell
gi.alaska.edu
Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:35 UTC
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Katie Kangas operates a bed-and-breakfast in Ruby, Alaska. On the morning of October 15, she turned to look out her picture window, toward the cabin next door. She was waiting for her client to switch the light on, at which point she would step out and deliver his breakfast.

Staring out into the darkness, she and her husband Ivan saw "an enormous ball of light in the sky to the west. It was moving north to south, and was quite big."

A few hundred miles northwest, Daisy Sours was standing outside in Selawik, Alaska, at about 7:30 that morning. She saw something she never had before.

"It looked like fireworks, until it split into four dots," she said.
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Second meteor fireball seen over Puerto Rico in 4 days


WION
Fri, 23 Oct 2020 10:04 UTC
Fireball spotted in Puerto Rico
Fireball spotted in Puerto Rico
Hundreds of people called up the authorities and updated their social media timelines as the locals spotted a fireball in the night skies of Puerto Rico.

The locals took to social media to share pictures and videos of colourful fireball above the Caribbean island.

A video was shot and shared by Frankie Lucena (@frankie57pr) on Twitter in which the fireball can be seen heading in a downward direction, which the spectator claimed can be "a Taurid".


Comment: Witnessed on Oct 17: Bright meteor fireball over Puerto Rico

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5 asteroids buzz by Earth today, as NASA gears up for historic touchdown on asteroid Bennu


RT
Mon, 19 Oct 2020 21:38 UTC
Asteroid headed towards Earth
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With just 73 days left in 2020, NASA has published an alert that not one, but five asteroids are passing by Earth today, as the agency's Osiris-Rex spacecraft prepares to touch down on a space rock 200 million miles away.

The first three of the day's five space rocks have mercifully passed the Earth by without incident, according to the Asteroid Watch Widget that tracks asteroids and comets that will make relatively close approaches to our planet.

2020 TJ6, measuring 10m in diameter or roughly half a bowling lane, passed the planet at a blistering speed of 40,824kph, but at a safe distance of 1.2 million km. The asteroid was followed by 2020 UX, the tiniest out of the five, which passed the Earth at 190,000km, and 2020 TD6, with a diameter of 7.4m or half the height of the Hollywood Sign.
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Bright meteor fireball recorded over Puerto Rico


Sott.net
Mon, 19 Oct 2020 10:45 UTC
A very bright meteor was visible from all over the island at around 3:44 am on Saturday, reported the Society for Astronomy of the Caribbean (SAC).
A very bright meteor was visible from all over the island at around 3:44 am on Saturday, reported the Society for Astronomy of the Caribbean (SAC).
A bright meteor fireball was reported over Puerto Rico on the 17th Oct by the Society for Astronomy of the Caribbean (SAC), as relayed by local media on the 18th.

The event was described by Eddie Irizarry, vice president of the SAC:
"It was a space rock probably several feet in diameter disintegrating through the atmosphere,"
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Meteor fireball recorded over Nitzanim, Israel


Sott.net
Mon, 19 Oct 2020 07:35 UTC
Meteor fireball over Israel
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A meteor fireball (event 2020/5928) has been reported to the American Meteor Society (AMS) over Nitzanim, Israel on Sunday, October 18th 2020 around 16:01 UT.

A video was uploaded to the AMS website by Viktor V.

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Meteor fireball booms over UK as residents describe 'the best I've ever seen'

Sean Martin
The Express (UK)
Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:27 UTC
Where the meteor was seen
© IMOWhere the meteor was 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.

A meteor which entered the Earth's atmosphere was so bright it could be seen over a plethora of countries. Residents of southern England, the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Luxembourg were treated to the stunning phenomenon. More than 100 people reported the sighting to the International Meteor Organisation (IMO) as the fireball rained down on the evening of October 11.

Witnesses described seeing a bright streak of light booming through the clouds.

According to the IMO, the meteor entered the atmosphere above the Bay of Biscay, to the west of the French coast.
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Two meteor fireballs over south of Spain on 11-12 Oct


Meteoroides.net
Mon, 12 Oct 2020 09:46 UTC
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Two bright meteors overflew the south of Spain on October 11-12. The first of them was spotted on October 11 at about 21:37 local time (equivalent to 19:37 universal time). It was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at around 58,000 km/h. It began at an altitude of about 84 km over the province of Córdoba, and ended at a height of around 37 km.

The second fireball was recorded on October 12 at about 1:59 local time (equivalent to 23:59 universal time on October 11). It was generated by a meteoroid from a comet that hit the atmosphere at about 86,000 km/h. It began at an altitude of around 101 km over the province of Jaén, and ended at a height of about 73 km over the province of Granada.

Both event was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, which is being conducted by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN). These meteors were spotted from the meteor-observing stations located at Sevilla, La Sagra (Granada), La Hita (Toledo), Sierra Nevada (Granada), and Calar Alto.

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Meteor fireball lights up Mexican skies and rains fire on northern states


RT
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 18:55 UTC
Meteor Fireball
© AMS Meteors Org
Residents across northeastern Mexico were stunned when a green-hued fireball lit up the night sky on Tuesday. Authorities reported that the fiery debris caused localised bushfires in the vicinity.

Reports came flooding in from across the northern state of Nuevo Leon after the suspected meteorite streaked across the sky at approximately 22:14 local time on Tuesday night.

Eyewitness and doorbell cam videos captured the intensity of the fiery phenomenon as it burned bright through the darkness.

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Meteor fireball recorded over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


Sott.net
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 07:40 UTC
Pittsburgh meteor fireball
© YouTube/AMS (screen capture)
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 24 reports (event 5549-2020) about a meteor fireball seen over DE, IN, KY, MD, NJ, NY, OH, PA, VA and WV on Tuesday, October 6th 2020 around 06:11 UT.

A video from a Pittsburgh resident was uploaded to their website.

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Bigger than an airliner: Huge asteroid hurls towards Earth's orbit

Andrei Dergalin
Sputnik
Mon, 05 Oct 2020 17:43 UTC
Asteroid
© NASA
With somewhere between 36 and 83 meters in diameter, the asteroid will be traveling at a speed of about 6.68 kilometers per second as it passes Earth.

Our planet is about to have yet another brush with a massive chunk of rock from outer space in a matter of days, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Objects.

The asteroid in question, designated 2020 RK2, was reportedly first spotted by astronomers last month.

With its size being somewhere between 36 and 83 meters in diameter, thus possibly rivaling that of a Boeing 747 airliner, the asteroid is expected to cross our planet's orbit on 7 October.

While the space rock will be traveling at the speed of about 6.68 kilometers per second, it is not actually expected to hit our planet, essentially making it yet another asteroid that flies harmlessly past Earth - a not that uncommon occurrence.
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