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A bright bolide (extremely bright meteor) exploded over northern Finland at 18:40 on November 16, 2017, the latest of several meteor fireball events
this week including
France,
Germany,
Spain,
United States, and
Argentina.
The aforementioned meteor fireball that flew over Germany on Nov 14
th has been
confirmed as the
most reported fireball event from Europe , with 1962
reports so far, since the AMS and the IMO launched the international version of the AMS fireball form.
According to
local media, there were also reports of 'heavy bangs' in an area of a few hundred kilometers radius. Other recent reports of 'mysterious booms' include those in
Alabama,
Florida,
San Diego,
New Jersey and
British Columbia, which could be attributed to exploding space rock fragments.
Aurora Service Tours, a tourism company operating in Utsjoki, northern Finland captured the phenomena, which momentarily turned night into day, on
video from a webcam that is commonly used to promote the Northern Lights. It was described as, "Huge meteor burn up. I was sat about 10 metres to the left of the camera and felt a huge shockwave. It shook the cottage."
Finland resident Johannes Karhula Lohtaja also uploaded a
video of the event to YouTube.
Comment: Could these recent events be part of the
Taurid meteor shower which peaked this past Saturday? According to the American Meteor Society (
AMS) website:
Associated with the comet Encke, the Taurids are actually two separate showers, with a Southern and a Northern component. Both branches of the Taurids are most notable for colorful fireballs and are often responsible for an increased number of fireball reports from September through November.
The first analysis conducted by former IMO president Dr. Juergen Rendtel of the Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam from the raw data shows that the events that occurred over Arizona and France cannot be linked to the Taurids: the Arizona event was moving from North-West to South-East while the French event was moving from North-East to South-West.
However, the events over Germany and Ohio fit the Taurids direction (East->West) and the low inclination angle at the time of the sightings! Note that the East-West direction is related to the Taurids only because the fireball occurred in the local evening. Later in the night or towards the morning the direction is different, of course.
Even NASA's own space data supports citizens' recent observations, namely that
meteor fireballs are increasing dramatically.
For more information on meteors, comets, Oort cloud, Electric Universe model, Nemesis - Sol's dark companion - and much more, see Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk's book,
Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection.
Perhaps 'something wicked this way comes?'
Comment: Could these recent events be part of the Taurid meteor shower which peaked this past Saturday? According to the American Meteor Society (AMS) website: Even NASA's own space data supports citizens' recent observations, namely that meteor fireballs are increasing dramatically.
For more information on meteors, comets, Oort cloud, Electric Universe model, Nemesis - Sol's dark companion - and much more, see Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk's book, Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection.
Perhaps 'something wicked this way comes?'