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Meteor fireball seen over Ohio

Kirstie Zontini
whio.com
Mon, 02 Mar 2020 15:31 UTC
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A meteor shot across the night sky on Sunday and people in the Miami Valley saw it! This was a special meteor considered to be a fireball. A fireball is just a meteor that is as bright as the planet Venus. These often have a bright tail and sometimes can produce a noise when they flash across the sky. The American Meteor Society keeps track of fireball sightings across the country and according to them, it appeared around 10:22PM on Sunday.

There were reports from 16 people that were from five different states. Majority of the eye witnesses were from Ohio. Three in southwest Ohio. The AMS created a map based on reports from the witnesses and it seems the fireball may have flashed somewhere in south central, Ohio, south and east of Columbus.

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Bright meteor fireball lights up night sky over the Netherlands and Belgium


Sott.net
Tue, 03 Mar 2020 07:02 UTC
Meteor fireball over Netherlands and Belgium
© AMS
The American Meteor Society (AMS) has received 165 reports about a meteor fireball streaking over the Netherlands and Belgium on Monday, March 2nd 2020 around 23:38 UT.

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Spectacular daytime meteor fireball explodes over Croatia and Slovenia - Shockwave sets off earthquake detectors


Sott.net
Fri, 28 Feb 2020 14:24 UTC
Meteor fireball over Croatia
© Tomislav Car
A spectacular meteor fireball exploded over Croatia and Slovenia in the northern Balkans today at 10:34 local time (09:34 UTC), Feb 28th. There are numerous reports of a loud sonic boom with the accompanying shockwave which was strong enough to show up on seismographs as an earthquake.

The Dubrovnik Times reports that in Zagreb, there was a strong rumble and tremors. A tremor was felt throughout the city, so at first everybody thought that it was an earthquake.

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Reports of meteor fireball seen over Aberdeen, Scotland

Callum Main
Aberdeen Evening Express
Wed, 26 Feb 2020 08:02 UTC
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A number of people have reported seeing what they believe to be a meteor over the north-east.

According to the Aberdeen Astronomical Society "a bright light" was seen in the sky above the Bucksburn area shortly before 6am this morning.

A number of other witnesses, including people from Ellon, Montrose and even Northumberland reported seeing the object.

One eyewitness told the page how they had seen a "single stream that broke up to numerous little flares".

Comment: The event was also witnessed from across the North Sea in Denmark and the Netherlands according to the American Meteor Society.

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Eerie green meteor fireball turns night into day over Tucson, Arizona

Anthony Victor Reyes
KVOA Tucson News
Wed, 26 Feb 2020 19:51 UTC
Meteor fireball over Arizona
© YouTube/S Paris (screen capture)
If you looked up at the sky early Wednesday morning, you may have noticed something spectacular. And it definitely wasn't a bird or a plane.

On Wednesday, YouTuber S Paris captured an object zooming through the sky on his dashcam at around 5:30 a.m. In the video's description, S Paris believes the object that came down is a meteor.

With the sun still down, the video showcased a clear visual of the meteor flying through the sky.

According to YouTuber, the video was captured on the southeast side of Tucson.

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Two meteor fireballs sighted across the skies of Spain's Andalucia - 3 in 4 days

Elisabeth Sundolf
Euro Weekly
Sat, 22 Feb 2020 18:28 UTC
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Two large fireballs were seen shooting across the sky during the night of February 18 and 19. They could be observed from different points of the Andalucían provinces of Almería, Granada and Seville.

The meteor detection station Calar Alto (CAHA) reported that two large balls of fire were observed shooting across the sky in the early hours of the morning of February 18 and 19.

The first one was detected by the CAHA observation station in Almería, but because of the weather conditions (cloudy night skies), the trajectory could not be calculated nor could more information be collected.

The second fireball, observed on February 19, could just as the first one be observed by the Almería observatory, but also by the observatories in Sierra Nevada (Granada) and Seville.

Comment: Four nights later saw yet another: Bright meteor filmed over Andalusia, Spain

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Bright meteor filmed over Andalusia, Spain


Meteors
Sun, 23 Feb 2020 23:45 UTC
Meteor over Spain
© YouTube/Meteors (screen capture)
On Feb. 23, at around 0:22 local time, numerous casual eyewitnesses saw a beautiful and bright meteor over the south of Spain. It was generated by a rock from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at about 43,000 km/h. It began at an altitude of about 70 km over Almería (Andalusia), and ended at a height of around 29 km over the Mediterranean Sea.

The event was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN), from the meteor-observing stations located at Calar Alto (Almería), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Hita (Toledo), and Sevilla. 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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A falling meteor fireball caught on camera in Russia's Karelia


Sputnik
Fri, 21 Feb 2020 18:19 UTC
The natural phenomenon occurred at 4:35 local time and lasted for about six seconds.
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A falling meteor was caught on a CCTV camera in the Segezhsky district of the Russian Republic of Karelia.

The footage shows a meteor falling at a high speed in the skies above a populated area before a bright flash occurs.

The fall of the meteor happened early in the morning and lasted for about six seconds. Eyewitnesses say that the meteor landed with a loud bang.

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Bolide lights up night sky over Dominican Republic


Space Weather
Sat, 22 Feb 2020 06:39 UTC
Bolide over Dominican Republic
© YouTube/Frankie Lucena (screen capture)
On Feb. 21st, a small space rock hit Earth's atmosphere and exploded over the Caribbean. Although the impact did not occur directly over Puerto Rico, cameras there had no trouble seeing the explosion. Frankie Lucena recorded this footage from Cabo Rojo, PR:


"The sky lit up brightly when the meteor hit," says Lucena. "The flash came from the direction of the Dominican Republic."

Indeed, he continues, "the GOES16 Group Energy Density image shows that it exploded over the Dominican Republic at 07:30 UTC (Feb. 21st):

Comment: On January 17 a meteor fireball blazed over nearby Puerto Rico in broad daylight.

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Huge meteor fireball filmed exploding over Alberta ski resort - 2nd for the province in 10 days

Shaoni Das
Narcity
Thu, 20 Feb 2020 13:36 UTC
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© sunshinevillage
A ski resort in Banff National Park captured a massive fireball meteor burning through the sky early in the morning on Wednesday, February 19. Sunshine Village's IT team checked on their Jackrabbit chairlift camera after hearing reports of an Alberta meteor sighting. As revealed by the time mark on the footage, at around 12:16 a.m, a giant exploding meteor ripped through the sky in the north-east direction.

This isn't the first time this month that Albertans caught a fireball exploding across the sky.

Calgarians witnessed a dazzling fireball flying across the sky on Saturday, February 9, leading locals to go on social media to react to this unusual sighting in the sky.

Comment: Meteor fireball lights up Alberta sky

We might have missed this week's astronomical phenomena altogether had it not been for the Jackrabbit camera situated on the ski hill's chairlift.

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