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© WNSTony Whilding searched 18 months for the 2lb 4oz meteorite
Tony Whilding, 38, of Wrexham, North Wales, began his hunt after a ball of flames shot over his home and went out.
Tony is hoping to get the rock certified to find how much it is worth.
He said: "I was in my back garden having a midnight cigarette when I noticed the sky lighting up above my head.
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Discovery images (19:25UT) of asteroid 2022 EB5
At 20:46UT of March 11, Bill Gray sent an alert in the MPML mailing list about the impact of Sar2593 with the Earth's atmosphere and: "to urge European observers to take a look for this object, currently on NEOCP. It should come in at 21:23 UTC at latitude +70.47, longitude W 10.40, plus or minus a few dozen km. That's about forty minutes from "right now", a bit north of Iceland". Below you can see a map of the impact location as calculated by Gray, southwest of Jan Mayen island.Credit: K. Sarneczky
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Comment: To be clear, by 'impact', in this case, they mean that it detonated high up in the atmosphere as a meteor fireball.
Unlike a similar cold spell in January, which brought life to a halt in Turkey's most crowded city, the rain did not affect daily life, at least for Thursday.
Roads were clear in most places while traffic density during morning rush hour was far below usual in the city notorious for long traffic jams. Most people preferred mass transit, ditching their cars, apparently out of fear of being stranded for hours on major highways, as was the case during January's snowstorms, which trapped hundreds of motorists along the E-5 and TransEuropean Motorway (TEM).
Blizzards accompanied the snowfall in some districts, while traffic slowed down in districts on higher ground, particularly on the European side. Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality's (IBB) crews poured salt on the roads to prevent icing, one of the causes of traffic snarls in January's chaos.
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© Pierre BeckFieldwork at the edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet in 2019.
Ever since 2015, when researchers at the University of Copenhagen's GLOBE Institute discovered the Hiawatha impact crater in northwestern Greenland, uncertainty about the crater's age has been the subject of considerable speculation. Could the asteroid have slammed into Earth as recently as 13,000 years ago, when humans had long populated the planet? Could its impact have catalyzed a nearly 1,000-year period of global cooling known as the Younger Dryas?
New analyses performed on grains of sand and rocks from the Hiawatha impact crater by the Natural History Museum of Denmark and the GLOBE Institute at the University of Copenhagen, as well as the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, demonstrate that the answer is no. The Hiawatha impact crater is far older. In fact, a new study published in the journal Science Advances today reports its age to be 58 million years old.
"Dating the crater has been a particularly tough nut to crack, so it's very satisfying that two laboratories in Denmark and Sweden, using different dating methods arrived at the same conclusion. As such, I'm convinced that we've determined the crater's actual age, which is much older than many people once thought," says Michael Storey of the Natural History Museum of Denmark.
© Croatian Astronomical UnionBrilliant meteor fireball over central Italy
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Comment: This story is notable because it wasn't so long ago that experts were claiming that meteor-fireball sightings were a 'rare' occurrence, meanwhile in the last decades there has been a significant and demonstrable uptick in sightings, some that have been particularly spectacular. Moreover, the prominent part that Fire In The Sky events have had on human history is becoming ever more widely accepted by mainstream researchers:
- HUGE meteor fireball lights up southern China's dark morning skies
- Coming to a city near you soon? Chelyabinsk meteor shockwave compilation
- Small asteroid 2022 EB5 tracked hitting Earth's atmosphere on March 11
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