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Meteor fireball over Southeast US on April 4, 2019.
Meteor fireball over Southeast US on April 4, 2019.
AMS received 9 videos and 7 photos of the event.
Fire in the Sky
AMS received 9 videos and 7 photos of the event.
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For one motorist driving west of Kenosha, it appeared that the streaking fireball had crashed near the Strawberry Creek club house and housing development. His 911 call triggered a response from both the Kenosha and Bristol fire departments.
Pleasant Prairie Police. dashcam video is below
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The bright teardrop-shaped meteor fell at about 11:55pm EST and eyewitnesses reported a five to six second descent, followed by a bright flash that lit up the sky like a firework.
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Residents in Tasmania's south captured the fast flash of light on camera.
Residents in Tasmania's south captured the fast flash of light on camera.
Amateur photographer Leoni Williams captured a shot of the green streak about 9:30pm on Thursday by "accident".
Overlooking Pipe Clay Lagoon, toward Clifton Beach in southern Tasmania, Ms Williams had her camera facing south in anticipation of an Aurora.
"I was very lucky to capture this bright green object before it disappeared over the horizon," Ms Williams said.
"I'm still not sure what it was. I didn't actually see it with the naked eye as I wasn't watching. I had just set the camera on 30 seconds and pushed the shutter and turned back to my phone.
"I would imagine it was pretty quick. I nearly missed it because it was at the end of the exposure."Photo sparked social media debate
Ms Williams took to social media to try and find out what she'd captured on camera.
Opinions varied, with some thinking it was a shooting star, a fallen satellite or even a UFO.
Spotted from the Huon Valley to Dodges Ferry, other photos began popping up on social media.
Eventually, it was shared on social media page Australian Meteor Reports.
"It's definitely a meteor," page administrator David Finlay said.
"That flash that's been captured is a very, very bright meteor - it's what we'd call a 'fireball'. It probably lit up the countryside."Mr Finlay - a former industrial chemist who has been studying astronomy from an very early age - said the flash was created by a "small rock from space, blazing through the atmosphere, creating friction with the atmosphere".
"It glows and ionises gas - that's what you see as this fireball blazing through the sky.
"If it actually survives atmospheric entry and lands as a rock on land, that's what we call a meteorite - only if it makes it to the ground."
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Meteor observed by camera in Douglassville, Berks County, around 6:13 am EST on Thursday, March 28, 2019. Witnesses across the East Coast described seeing a fireball in the sky that morning, including to people in Philadelphia.
Meteor observed by camera in Douglassville, Berks County, around 6:13 am EST on Thursday, March 28, 2019. Witnesses across the East Coast described seeing a fireball in the sky that morning, including to people in Philadelphia.
"It was very large! Much bigger than any type of shooting star I have seen. The flames around it were evident!" one report from Bethlehem read.
The reports to the American Meteor Society put the fireball's appearance as around 6:15 a.m. EDT. Sunrise on Thursday was 6:46 a.m.
The nonprofit society lists dozens of reports of this fireball as pending on its website, amsmeteors.org.
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Meteor fireball over Santa Catarina, Brazil on March 24, 2019.
Meteor fireball over Santa Catarina, Brazil on March 24, 2019.
A video has been uploaded on the AMS Website. AMS Event: 1245-2019, Report 163602 (1245m-2019) Credit:V. Antonio Geraldo.
A security camera at Roberts Sand Company in Quincy captured video of the apparent meteorite.
"It came across the sky and you could see the fire trail behind it," said operations manager Dwyane Fox.
Fox told WCTV's Katie Kaplan that something flashing and bright had caught his eye it about 7:10 a.m.
"I looked up at it and you could see the fireball coming down and parts coming off of it and a little bit of black smoke coming off," he said.
Did you see it?
#Fireball caught over Elmira Corning Regional Airport, NY last night.
— AMSMETEORS (@amsmeteors) March 19, 2019
68 reports so far: https://t.co/ZHOkMko7UX
If you saw this event, please report it: https://t.co/N0EuOVkOgj pic.twitter.com/QQVTB5DOYA
As of now, there are eighty seven reports on the AMS website about the fireball, which can be seen streaking across the sky in the video above.
Fireball over Kamchatka peninsula in December went largely unnoticed at the time
A meteor explosion over the Bering Sea late last year unleashed 10 times as much energy as the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, scientists have revealed.
The fireball tore across the sky off Russia's Kamchatka peninsula on 18 December and released energy equivalent to 173 kilotons of TNT. It was the largest air blast since another meteor hurtled into the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, in Russia's south-west, six years ago, and the second largest in the past 30 years.
Unlike the Chelyabinsk meteor, which was captured on CCTV, mobile phones and car dashboard cameras, the December arrival from outer space went largely unnoticed at the time because it exploded in such a remote location.
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The atmospheric explosion (bottom right) and debris trail left by the exploding meteor over the Bering Strait in December 2018
The atmospheric explosion (bottom right) and debris trail left by the exploding meteor over the Bering Strait in December 2018
The fireball tore across the sky off Russia's Kamchatka peninsula on 18 December and released energy equivalent to 173 kilotons of TNT. It was the largest air blast since another meteor hurtled into the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, in Russia's south-west, six years ago, and the second largest in the past 30 years.
Unlike the Chelyabinsk meteor, which was captured on CCTV, mobile phones and car dashboard cameras, the December arrival from outer space went largely unnoticed at the time because it exploded in such a remote location.
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Comment: Last week another streaking fireball, believed to be meteorite, was spotted over Gadsden County, Florida.