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Bright bolide recorded over Espirito Santo, Brazil

Exoss Citizen Science
YouTube
Mon, 16 May 2016 08:00 UTC
Bolide over Brazil
© YouTube/Exoss Citizen Science (screen capture)
Bolide recorded in southern Espirito Santo. The Exoss Citizen Science recorded a bolide early on 05/16/2016 at 4:22 am on the cities of the southern state of Espirito Santo . The event was filmed by three monitoring stations : Colatina -ES , San Jose de Uba -RJ and Campos dos Goytacazes -RJ. More details in press.exoss.org

[Translated from Portuguese by Google]

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Giant meteor fireball '10 times brighter than the full moon' explodes with loud boom over southern Finland


Strange Sounds
Sat, 14 May 2016 07:14 UTC
Meteor fireball over Finland
© Aki Taavitsainen / Ursa MikkeliBright meteor over Finland
A fireball 10 times brighter than the full moon exploded in the sky of Finland on May 12, 2016. The disintegrating blue-green ball of fire emitted a powerful and loud boom reported all across southern Finland.

The meteor flew from north to south and was 10 times brighter than the full moon, according to first calculations.

The 'shockingly gorgeous' falling space rock was reported more than 100 times all over southern Finland.

The blue-green meteor flew up to 8 seconds before exploding in a loud sonic boom.

This unusually bright object traveled through the Earth's atmosphere at 16 kilometers per second and disintegrated at about 89 kilometers altitude.
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Meteor fireball caught on camera in Şanlıurfa, near Turkey's border with Syria


Sott.net
Fri, 06 May 2016 20:41 UTC
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© Screenshot YouTube
Meteor fireball caught on camera in Şanlıurfa, near Turkey's border with Syria

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Meteor fireball blazes over US state of Georgia


WSB-TV Atlanta
Fri, 06 May 2016 13:08 UTC
Fireball Over Georgia
© YouTube Screen Capture
Did you see it? Driver Jeremy Wall captured dashcam video of this fireball streaking across on Harrington Road in the Lawrenceville area on May 3.

The meteor was likely part of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower, the first of two celestial light shows that occur every year in early May as a result of Earth passing through dust released by Halley's Comet. The shower peaks May 5 and 6 with about 10 to 20 meteors streaking across the sky per hour. The best time to catch the show is just before dawn.

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Bright orange meteor fireball seen over Auckland, New Zealand


Times Live
Tue, 03 May 2016 22:20 UTC
Auckland fireball
© Times/Claire McGillivray
Intrigue is mounting following the sighting on Saturday of a mysterious bright light in the north west sky.

Times staff member Clare McGillivray snapped this photo from her Beachlands home on Saturday night. At first she thought it was just the setting sun reflecting off a wispy cloud but wondered if it was a meteorite as it appeared to leave a large trail as it dropped through the sky.

"It took about 10 minutes from first sighting to disappear behind the clouds. During this time it grew from a squiggly line to a straight streak. It appeared to be falling out of the sky or maybe streaking across the atmosphere. Pretty amazing to see," she said.

And she wasn't the only one to have spotted the orange streak.

There were numerous comments from apparent witnesses on the WeatherWatch.co.nz site.

One wrote on the site on Saturday: "Strange light over West Auckland. So about 5.45-6.00pm this evening (30/04/16). I was working at Auckland hospital and happened to look out one of the windows facing towards west Auckland.
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Strong activity in the eta Aquariid meteor shower from Halley's Comet


Space Weather
Wed, 04 May 2016 14:03 UTC
all-sky radar map
Earth is entering a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, source of the annual eta Aquariid meteor shower. Forecasters expect the shower to peak on the nights around May 5th and 6th with 30+ meteors per hour. The best time to look, no matter where you live, is probably during the dark hours before sunrise on Friday.

"Although the shower's peak is still days away, the Canadian Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) is already detecting strong activity from the eta Aquariid shower," reports physics professor Peter Brown of the University of Western Ontario. The pink "hot spot" in this all-sky radar map from May 3rd shows the location of the shower's radiant (ETA).
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Fireball spotted over Okayama, Japan


Lunar MeteoriteHunter
Fri, 22 Apr 2016 18:45 UTC
fireball over Japan 2016
Fireball spotted over Okayama, Japan, possibly part of the Lyrids.
Edited Google translation of report:

In 2016 April 22 day 21 hour 25 minutes and 39 seconds, there was a fireball of Lyra meteor shower

The fireball had an absolute magnitude -5.5 as calculated by Ueda of Osakan.

The actual path length was 330.5 km., entering the atmosphere approximately 80.8 km over the border over the Kitsuki vanishing point at km 141.2. It was majestic as it was flying over 7.1 seconds between Oita Prefecture Bungotakada and Hyogo Prefecture Sayo-cho. You can see that was a brilliant meteor from Okayama Prefecture

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Green meteor fireball streaks over Southern California skies

Heather Navarro
NBC4 Southern California
Tue, 26 Apr 2016 22:47 UTC
SOCAL Fireball
© YouTube Screen Capture
Southern California residents took to social media after a streak of green light was seen falling from the sky Tuesday night. A news photographer's dashcam captured the streak as it fell over the downtown Los Angeles area around 10 p.m.

Dr. Edwin C. Krupp, astronomer and director of Griffith Observatory, said it was not clear what the streak was exactly. Krupp said based on the description, the phenomenon is a fairly common occurrence where material from outer space heats up, like a meteor.

He said it also could be debris from a previous launch.

NBC4 viewers called into the station from San Bernardino County and beyond to report seeing the curious ball of light.

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Fireball seen over Birmingham, UK as Lyrids meteor shower arrives

David Bentley
Birmingham Mail
Wed, 20 Apr 2016 18:25 UTC
Meteor shower
© AP Photo/Amel Emric

Bright streaks of light in the skies over Birmingham - will you be watching?

People in Birmingham are being treated to another dramatic display of shooting stars this week.

A meteor shower known as the Lyrids has arrived in the skies and will reach maximum intensity on the night of April 22/23.

Some shooting stars are expected to be visible each night from April 19 to 25.

There has already been one report of a 'fireball' over Birmingham. So will you be watching?

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Possible meteor spotted over Phoenix


KPHO Broadcasting Corporation
Sun, 24 Apr 2016 11:02 UTC
Mysterious light
© KPHO/KTVKMysterious light was spotted in the sky Saturday night.
Phoenix - A light in the sky was spotted over the Valley on Saturday night and some are wondering what it was.

One of our viewers was able to record the sudden burst of light in the sky before it suddenly disappeared.

Some witnesses said it looked like a meteor falling from the sky while others thought it might have been a flare.

No official word on what the light was.
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