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Loud meteor fireball spotted over southern Mississippi mostly heard, hardly seen

Jennifer Harbaugh
NASA
Thu, 28 Apr 2022 20:37 UTC
A fiery meteor streaked across the morning skies in southern Mississippi yesterday on April 27, 2022.

More than 30 eyewitnesses in the states of Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi reported seeing a bright fireball at 8:03 a.m. CDT. The sighting was soon followed by numerous reports of loud booms heard in Claiborne County, Mississippi, and surrounding counties.
GLM image from the GOES 16 satellite.
© NOAAGLM image from the GOES 16 satellite.
Approximately 22,000 miles out in space, NOAA's Geostationary Lightning Mappers (GLM) onboard the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) 16 and 17 detected several bright flashes associated with the fragmentation's of this bolide, or exceptionally bright meteor, which was first spotted 54 miles above the Mississippi River near the Mississippi town of Alcorn.

"This is one of the nicer events I have seen in the GLM data," said Bill Cooke, lead of NASA's Meteoroid Environments Office at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Meteor fireball over the SW of Spain (April 26)


Meteoroides.net
Tue, 26 Apr 2022 18:22 UTC
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This bolide was spotted over Spain on April 26, at 3:39 local time (equivalent to 1:39 universal time). The event was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at about 74,000 km/h. The fireball overflew South of Spain. It began at an altitude of about 87 km over Huelva, moved northeast, and ended at a height of around 50 km over Nerva (Huelva).

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 Sierra Nevada, Sevilla, La Sagra (Granada), Huelva, El 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 Georgia and other states on April 29


American Meteor Society
Sat, 30 Apr 2022 08:24 UTC
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© Ed A.
We received 12 reports about a fireball seen over AL, FL, GA and SC on Friday, April 29th 2022 around 04:02 UT.

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

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Meteor fireball over Germany and nearby countries on April 27


American Meteor Society
Thu, 28 Apr 2022 10:40 UTC
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© Michael D.
We received 19 reports about a fireball seen over Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Emilia-Romagna, Hessen, Piemonte, Rheinland-Pfalz, Sachsen, Salzburg and Veneto on Wednesday, April 27th 2022 around 19:56 UT.

For this event, we received one video and 8 photos.

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Meteor fireball over Washington, Oregon and British Columbia on April 27


American Meteor Society
Wed, 27 Apr 2022 09:44 UTC
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We received 44 reports about a fireball seen over British Columbia, OR and WA on Wednesday, April 27th 2022 around 03:44 UT.

For this event, we received one video.

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Meteor fireball over the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil on April 25


meteorosmontecastelosc
Tue, 26 Apr 2022 19:48 UTC
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A fireball-like meteor was seen over the state of Santa Catarina on Monday night near midnight.

The alert was given by Luciano Miguel Diniz who has a BRAMON monitoring station (LUM1/SP) in Canitar/SP. Later Alexandre Moro from the BRAMON station (AFM1/SC) in Florianópolis also realized that he had recorded the same meteor.

Early in the morning, it was the turn of Jocimar Justino, from the monitoring station in Monte Castelo-SC, to find the fireball in the records of the Planalto Norte station. According to the preliminary analysis, the phenomenon lasted about 5 seconds and possibly occurred near the Caçador region.

Weather cameras in the state of RS and SC also recorded the event.

"Fireball" meteors are so named because of their intense brightness, greater than -4 magnitude, and their shape that actually looks like a ball.


(Translated by Google)
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Meteor fireball over Idaho on April 24


American Meteor Society
Mon, 25 Apr 2022 10:54 UTC
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We received one report about a fireball seen over ID on Sunday, April 24th 2022 around 10:45 UT.

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

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Meteor fireball over Germany and nearby countries on April 24


American Meteor Society
Mon, 25 Apr 2022 09:51 UTC
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© Maciej L.
We received 14 reports about a fireball seen over Brandenburg, Bremen, Groningen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Südholland and Schleswig-Holstein on Sunday, April 24th 2022 around 01:02 UT.

For this event, we received one video and 10 photos.

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Meteor fireball over New York and other states on April 23


American Meteor Society
Sat, 23 Apr 2022 09:43 UTC
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© Rick N.
We received 9 reports about a fireball seen over MA, ME and NY on Saturday, April 23rd 2022 around 08:07 UT.

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

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Meteor fireball over Germany and nearby countries on April 22


American Meteor Society
Mon, 25 Apr 2022 09:36 UTC
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Stephan A.
We received 21 reports about a fireball seen over Aargau, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Lombardia, Rheinland-Pfalz, Schwyz and Tirol on Friday, April 22nd 2022 around 21:58 UT.

For this event, we received one video and 7 photos.

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