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Stunning meteor fireball flies over the Mediterranean Sea (again)


Sott.net
Mon, 23 Jul 2018 22:22 UTC
Fireball over the Mediterranean Sea
© YouTube/Meteors
On July 25, 2017, YouTube user 'Meteors' uploaded footage of a meteor flying over the Mediterranean Sea on July 23rd.

It's the second fireball captured over the Mediterranean by the SMART Project in less than a week. The third since the beginning of July.


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Meteor fireball caught on dashcam near Anchorage, Alaska

Jackie Purcell
ktuu.com
Sun, 22 Jul 2018 13:56 UTC
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A meteor made a fly-by over Alaska at 12:43 a.m. Sunday morning, and it was all caught on dash-cam as it went streaking by!

A meteor is always a cool thing to see, but it happens so fast, that it is hard to get a good look let along a good photo or video. The sighting and flash of a meteor blazing through Earth's atmosphere usually lasts just seconds. You have to be in the right place at the right time with cameras rolling to catch one, and that was exactly the case for Philip Strumsky, who was driving on the Glenn Highway between Hiland Road and the weigh station, when he saw a flash in the sky.

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Mysterious boom heard in Nanaimo, BC, may have been 'meteor passing overhead' says professor

Dominic Abassi
Nanaimo News Now
Tue, 17 Jul 2018 19:22 UTC
Mystery boom in Nanaiomo, BC
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There's a long list of things it wasn't, but no one can seem to figure out what it was.

A loud bang, described as an intensely close clap of thunder, was heard across the Nanaimo region Tuesday around 11:30 a.m. Hundreds of people reported hearing it, covering Nanoose to Hammond Bay to College Heights.

"Heard it and felt it near Lantzville," Jamie Penner said on Twitter, noting it was unlike the sound of blasting coming from his area in recent months. "It sounded like someone opening a big sliding door in an apartment above you."

"For me it was like a loud and quick thunder sound!," Donald Louch said.
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Bright meteor fireball recorded over Mediterranean Sea


Sott.net
Tue, 17 Jul 2018 12:11 UTC
Fireball over the Mediterranean Sea
© YouTube/Meteors
On July 17th, YouTube user 'Meteors' uploaded video of a meteor flying over the Mediterranean Sea.


The fireball was recorded by observing stations operating in the framework of the SMART Project from the astronomical observatories of Calar Alto (Almería), Sierra Nevada (Granada) and Sevilla, Spain.
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Two asteroids whizzed past Earth undetected last weekend

Katherine Hignett
Newsweek
Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:10 UTC
Artist rendering of an asteroid
© Getty ImagesAn asteroid travels close to Earth in this artist’s impression. Two tiny asteroids sneaked safely past Earth last weekend only to be discovered hours after they’d buzzed our planet.
Two tiny asteroids sneaked safely past Earth last weekend, only to be discovered hours after they'd buzzed our planet. Asteroids 2018 NX and 2018 NW zipped past our blue-green orb at distances of just 72,000 miles and 76,000 miles, respectively. That's about one-third of the distance from the Earth to the moon.

Scientists think the asteroids both stretched between about 16 feet and 50 feet in diameter. That's relatively small for near-Earth asteroids.

Astronomers at an observatory on the Palomar Mountain range in California spotted both space rocks on Sunday, according to the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center.
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Meteor fireball plunges into Mediterranean sea off the coast of Spain


Sott.net
Mon, 09 Jul 2018 23:09 UTC
Fireball over Spain
© YouTube/Meteors
On July 9th, a meteor fireball was recorded over Andalusia and the Mediterranean Sea by YouTube user 'Meteors'.
The event was produced by a fragment from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at about 65,000 km/h.

The meteorite would have fallen into the sea, with a mass of just a few grams.
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Bright meteor fireball streaks over Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil


Sott.net
Mon, 09 Jul 2018 15:17 UTC
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© L. SoaresMeteor fireball over Brazil 07.07.18
A bright meteor fireball streaked across the night sky over the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil on July 7, 2018, around 10:35 pm local time (01:35 UT).

According to EXOSS Citizen Science Project the meteor was seen by residents of Mossoró, Areia Branca, Assú, Baraúna, Severiano Melo and even cities in Ceará such as Icapui and Russas said they had observed the event.

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Meteor fireball seen across US Midwest evening skies

Chris Havely
kcrg.com
Sun, 08 Jul 2018 13:23 UTC
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Many Iowans were lucky enough to have their eyes to the sky Sunday evening around 8:45. A fireball or bright meteor was seen streaking across the southern sky.

Fireballs are meteors that burn much brighter than average meteors seen entering the earth's atmosphere. This is typical because of their larger size, but there are other factors that may make them brighter or appear in different colors.
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NASA may have recovered meteorite from the ocean

Chris Mahon
Outer Places
Fri, 06 Jul 2018 12:09 UTC
Underwater Meteorite
© Pixabay Composite
Just two days into their search for a giant meteorite that crashed off the coast of Washington State, Dr. Marc Fries and the crew of the Nautilus have accomplished their mission: they believe they have successfully recovered pieces of the two-ton meteorite that created a huge fireball the size of a minivan as it streaked into the Pacific. Further analysis is in the works but - if these fragments are genuine - they'll be the first-ever pieces of a meteorite recovered from the ocean.

Based on Fries' calculations of the meteorite's trajectory, the Nautilus narrowed its search to a 0.4 square-mile patch of the ocean. The area was first searched with sonar, then with two ROVs (remotely operated vehicles) named Argus and Hercules. The team then used "a suction hose sampler, magnetic plate, and sediment scoop" to pick up the most promising pieces of rock.

The two fragments found so far are thought to be the outer shell of the meteorite (called the fusion crust) which the Nautilus Live blog describes as "meteorite exterior that melted and flowed like glaze on pottery as it entered the atmosphere."
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Mysterious lights in the sky over New Zealand probably meteors, experts say

Piers Fuller
stuff.co.nz
Thu, 05 Jul 2018 15:38 UTC
Meteor seen entering atmosphere seen from ISS
© Supplied
A group of early morning exercisers were perplexed by strange lights cutting across the Wellington sky on Wednesday morning.

Experts suspect the lights, which were also seen in other parts of the country, were probably meteors flaming out in the upper atmosphere.

Melissa Mebus of Houghton Bay was one of seven women exercising at a regular bootcamp on Houghton Valley School's playing fields around 6.30am when they spotted a strange object overhead.

Richard Hall of the Phoenix Astronomical Society suspects mysterious lights may have been part of a meteor shower.

"Someone said 'oh my good look at that' and we all were all sort of like 'what the heck is that?'"

"We had long enough to see it. It didn't just shoot past ... we had about five seconds which is quite a lot if you are looking at something," Mebus said.
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