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Meteor fireball caught on camera over Ontario, Canada

Sawyer Bogdan
Globalnews.ca
Sat, 27 Feb 2021 22:38 UTC

Observers in Ontario reported seeing a bright fireball on February 26 at 10:07 PM EST (2021 February 27 3:07 UTC). This event was captured by several all sky meteor cameras belonging to the NASA All Sky Fireball Network and the Southern Ontario Meteor Network operated by Western University. Via NASA government website

Those looking out at the night sky in Southwestern Ontario Friday night might have spotted a shooting star, or as it's technically known, a fireball shooting across the sky.

This event was captured by several all-sky meteor cameras belonging to the NASA All Sky Fireball Network and the Southern Ontario Meteor Network, operated by Western University.

Peter Brown, Professor and Canada Research Chair of Meteor Physics Western Institute for Earth & Space Exploration, reported on Twitter the fireball was as bright as the moon and passed directly over Chatham, Ont.

He said the event happened Friday at 10:07 p.m. and that the fireball ended at 30 km height just north of Lake St. Claire near Fair Haven, Michigan.

In a tweet, he wrote "very small or no meteorites likely."

Meteor fireball streaks across Central Arkansas sky

Bill Bowden
Arkansasonline.com
Thu, 25 Feb 2021 14:52 UTC

A fireball streaked across the Central Arkansas sky at 8:17 p.m. Wednesday.

Steve Arnold of Eureka Springs is looking for video to help triangulate the location.

Arnold, who was a host of the Discovery television show Meteorite Men, thinks there's a good chance the meteorite landed on Earth, possibly in the vicinity of El Dorado or north Louisiana.

"There is a slight chance that it totally burned out," he said. "I'm optimistic that there's pieces. It was bright. The more shallow angle, it's a more gentle process. When it's coming down and getting into the thick part of our atmosphere quickly it will more often break up into a bunch of little pieces. This one is more likely to have stayed intact or broken into a couple of pieces."

"We have one good video that a dash cam in Dallas picked up," said Arnold. "We need one more from somewhere else."

Meteor fireball turns night into day in Mallorca, Spain

Majorca Daily Bulletin
Wed, 24 Feb 2021 14:26 UTC

Fireball image taken from Benicàssim, Castellón.

At around 21:30 on Tuesday a "fireball" crossed the skies of Mallorca and witnesses who saw it the middle of the Serra de Tramuntana mountains, Deya and Soller, said it was on a north or west to south trajectory.

Francesc Xavier Salas from Deya described it as "an impressive fireball that showed very powerful sky blue light inside and an outer layer and tail with a greenish hue.

Thousands of meteors enter the earth's atmosphere every day but most of them are not seen by the public because they fall over the ocean or in remote areas.

Comment: Eh, but those aren't fireballs, which are much larger bolides than the ones they're talking about.

A fireball is a very bright meteor which ranges in colour from red to blue and its composition determines its colour; sodium produces a bright yellow light, nickel is green and magnesium is blue-white.

"This is the second one I've seen in my life, the last time was 43 years ago," said one witness.

ENORME BÓLIDO CON MÚLTIPLES FRAGMENTACIONES #SPMN230221 ayer tarde a las 20h27m03s TU (21h27m hora local). Asociado a las Líncidas y captado desde múltiples estaciones, aquí registrado a color por @vicent_ibanyez desde Benicàssim (Castelló). Más detalles: https://t.co/CRfB0fblVv pic.twitter.com/BLGi5Ovnl8
— Red de Investigación Bólidos y Meteoritos (SPMN) (@RedSpmn) February 24, 2021

Bright meteor fireball lights up night sky over Alberta, Canada

Wallis Snowdon
CBC.ca
Mon, 22 Feb 2021 19:25 UTC

© Lea Storry/Twitter
Lea Storry was in her home office in downtown Edmonton when she saw the flash of light streak across the sky Monday morning.

A fireball buzzed over the Prairies on Monday, temporarily piercing the dark of the early morning sky with a flash of blinding blue light.

The meteor darted across the sky around 6:30 a.m. MT, startling early risers who were lucky to catch a glimpse of the sudden glow.

The light was captured by security cameras across Edmonton, and social media soon lit up with reports from observers who caught a glimpse of it.

The spectacle was seen in at least two provinces, with scattered reports from Jasper to Saskatoon.

As of 8:30 a.m., there were 42 unverified reports of fireball sightings on the American Meteor Society (AMS) website.

Residents throughout UK observe bright meteor fireball

Sott.net
Fri, 19 Feb 2021 07:53 UTC

The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 112 reports (event 907-2021) about a meteor fireball seen over England, Groningen, Northern Ireland and Scotland on Thursday, February 18th 2021 around 21:20 UT.

For this event, AMS received one video. Credit: Andrew Simpson.

Meteor fireball over the south of Spain (Feb. 16)

Meteoroides.net
Tue, 16 Feb 2021 13:59 UTC

On 16 February 2021, at about 6:00 local time (equivalent to 5:00 universal time), a fast fireball was spotted over the south of Spain. This bolide was generated by a rock from a comet that hit the atmosphere at about 213,000 km/h. The fireball began at an altitude of about 117 km over the province of Badajoz, and ended at a height of around 82 km.

This 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 Sevilla, La Hita (Toledo), Sierra Nevada, La Sagra (Granada), and Calar Alto (Almería). 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).

Meteor fireball over Andalusia, Spain (Feb. 13)

Meteoroides.net
Mon, 15 Feb 2021 12:53 UTC

The fireball shown on this video was recorded over the south of Spain on 2021 February 13, at 19:30 local time (equivalent to 18:30 universal time). It was generated by a rock from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at about 72,000 km/h.

It began over the north of the province of Granada at an altitude of about 95 km, and ended at a height of around 55 km. The event was recorded in the framework of the SMART project from the meteor-observing stations located at La Hita (Toledo), Calar Alto (Almeria), La Sagra (Granada), Sierra Nevada (Granada) and Sevilla.

Bright meteor fireball streaks over Melbourne, Australia

Yahoo News UK
Mon, 15 Feb 2021 05:56 UTC

Residents of Victoria, Australia, reported seeing a "massive fireball" streak across the night sky on February 14.

Dashcam footage posted to Facebook by Leesa Vaughan, and recorded from the Monash Freeway in Melbourne, shows the object flash in the night sky.

"That was a massive fireball," Vaughan can be heard saying in the video.

"This is likely a sporadic meteor, probably not much larger than a marble, entering the earth's atmosphere and burning up," the Astronomical Society of Victoria wrote in a Facebook post about the event. Credit: Leesa Vaughan via Storyful.

Large meteor fireball reported over UK and Western Europe

Sott.net
Sat, 13 Feb 2021 16:41 UTC

The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 82 reports (event 809-2021) about a meteor fireball seen over Île-de-France, Drenthe, England, Friesland, Gelderland, Grand Est, Groningen, Hauts-de-France, Hessen, Limburg, Niedersachsen, Noord-Brabant, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Normandie, Overijssel, Scotland, Vlaanderen, Wales, Wallonie, Zeeland and Zuid-Holland on Friday, February 12th 2021 around 05:10 UT.

Three videos were uploaded to the AMS website.

This one is credited to Glen Wilkinson.

Meteor fireball streaks over California

Sott.net
Fri, 12 Feb 2021 07:05 UTC

The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 24 reports (event 778-2021) about a meteor fireball seen over CA, NV and UT on Thursday, February 11th 2021 around 05:21 UT.

A video was uploaded to the AMS website. Credit: PxT.

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Fire in the Sky

Meteor fireball caught on camera over Ontario, Canada

Meteor fireball streaks across Central Arkansas sky

Meteor fireball turns night into day in Mallorca, Spain

Bright meteor fireball lights up night sky over Alberta, Canada

Residents throughout UK observe bright meteor fireball

Meteor fireball over the south of Spain (Feb. 16)

Meteor fireball over Andalusia, Spain (Feb. 13)

Bright meteor fireball streaks over Melbourne, Australia

Large meteor fireball reported over UK and Western Europe

Meteor fireball streaks over California

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