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Meteor fireball seen over England on December 14

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We received 2 reports about a fireball seen over England on Tuesday, December 14th 2021 around 23:48 UT.

For this event, we received one video.


Comment: On the same night over England and less than an hour earlier than the one noted above another fireball was also videoed.


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Meteor fireball over New Jersey and other states on December 23

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We received 93 reports about a fireball seen over CT, DE, MD, NC, NJ, NY, OH, PA, SC, TN, VA and WV on Thursday, December 23rd 2021 around 12:10 UT.

For this event, we received 2 videos.


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Meteor fireball over South Carolina and other states on December 23

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© Ed A.
We received 10 reports about a fireball seen over FL, GA, KY, NC, SC and VA on Thursday, December 23rd 2021 around 10:04 UT.

For this event, we received 2 videos and one photo.


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Is the Eye of the Sahara 'the Lost City of Atlantis'?


Comment: Short answer; no it is not. It's an impact site (caused by an overhead cometary explosion)...


Atlantis and Richat Structure
© Chubbinsure Net
Could a curious geological formation in the Mauritanian part of the Sahara desert anything to do with the lost city of Atlantis?

If you type the word "Atlantis" into Google, around 120 million results will pop up. Obviously, Plato's legend of Atlantis has long occupied many people, from scientists to mysticists, with many candidates being cited as the possible location of this lost and sunken civilization. But did such a city ever exist at all? And if yes, where could the ruins be?

The only mention of Atlantis by name in historical texts is in Plato's Dialogues (written around 360 B.C.), which gives dozens of precise details about what Atlantis looked like, and where it may have been located in relation to other landmarks in the ancient world. It was this level of detail that has set many people off thinking that Atlantis actually existed.

One of the best clues that Plato gives about Atlantis is that there was a series of concentric circles around the city, black and red stone, and of course it was a seafaring society:
Poseidon carved the mountain where his love dwelt into a palace and enclosed it with three circular moats of increasing width, varying from one to three stadia and separated by rings of land proportional in size. The Atlanteans then built bridges northward from the mountain, making a route to the rest of the island. They dug a great canal to the sea, and alongside the bridges carved tunnels into the rings of rock so that ships could pass into the city around the mountain; they carved docks from the rock walls of the moats. Every passage to the city was guarded by gates and towers, and a wall surrounded each ring of the city. The walls were constructed of red, white, and black rock, quarried from the moats, and were covered with brass, tin, and the precious metal orichalcum, respectively.
So, according to Plato, Atlantis looked something like this:
Atlantis Artist Drawing
© Rocío Espín Piñar

Comment:

Watch Randall Carlson's discussion of the Richat Structure.




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Meteor fireball over Austria, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia on December 17

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© Zoltán J.
We received 17 reports about a fireball seen over Bratislavský kraj, Lower Austria, Niederösterreich, Slovenija, Steiermark and Wien on Friday, December 17th 2021 around 18:27 UT.

For this event, we received one video and 2 photos.


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Meteor fireball over Germany, Austria and Slovenia on December 21

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© Michael F.
We received 13 reports about a fireball seen over Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Hessen, Kamnik, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Sachsen, Salzburg and Thüringen on Tuesday, December 21st 2021 around 18:46 UT.

For this event, we received one video and 13 photos.


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Meteor fireball over Brunei on December 16

A rare astronomical phenomenon of a blazing fireball streak in the sky was seen on Thursday night. Photo shows a dashcam footage of the flashing bright green light along Jalan Kebangsaan. -
© Borneo Bulletin/ANNA rare astronomical phenomenon of a blazing fireball streak in the sky was seen on Thursday night. Photo shows a dashcam footage of the flashing bright green light along Jalan Kebangsaan. -
Several lucky individuals in the country witnessed a rare astronomical phenomenon of a blazing fireball streak in the sky on Thursday night.

The incident, which turned out to be a meteor shooting down the sky, was reported to the Astronomical Society of Brunei Darussalam (PABD).

According to PABD, observers from Brunei-Muara and Tutong districts reportedly witnessed the spectacular sight and one of them managed to capture the bright green flash of light on a vehicle dashcam.


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Meteor fireball over the north of Spain (Dec. 15)

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This bolide was spotted over Spain on December 15, at 5:38 local time (equivalent to 4:38 universal time). It was as bright as the full Moon. The event was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at about 84,000 km/h. The fireball overflew the region of Castile and León (north of Spain). It began at an altitude of about 106 km over the province of Valladolid, moved east, and ended at a height of around 59 km over the province of Palencia.

This bright meteor was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN) from the meteor-observing stations located at Calar Alto, Sierra Nevada, Sevilla, La Sagra (Granada), Huelva, Aljarafe, El Guijo (Madrid, operated by Adolfo San Segundo), and La Hita (Toledo). The event has been analyzed by the principal investigator of the SMART project: Dr. Jose M. Madiedo, from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC).


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Spectacular meteor fireball over the Mediterranean sea (Dec 14)

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This stunning bolide was spotted over Spain on December 14, at 1:16 local time (equivalent to 0:16universal time). It was brighter than the full Moon. The event was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from asteroid Phaethon that hit the atmosphere at about 131,000 km / h. The fireball was a Geminid that overflew the Mediterranean Sea. It began at an altitude of about 109 km over the sea, over a point located at about 45 km west of the coast of Spain. From there it moved west, and ended at a height of around 35 km over on the Mediterranean.

This bright meteor was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN) from the meteor-observing stations located at Calar Alto, Sierra Nevada, Sevilla, La Sagra (Granada), Huelva, Aljarafe, and La Hita (Toledo). The event has been analyzed by the principal investigator of the SMART project: Dr. Jose M. Madiedo, from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC).


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Meteor fireball over Oregon and Washington on December 14

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© Allison McGillivray
We received 48 reports about a fireball seen over OR and WA on Tuesday, December 14th 2021 around 14:11 UT.

For this event, we received one video and one photo.