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Meteor strikes Tatouine, home of Star Wars

Robert Joyce
Tunisia Live Net
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:34 UTC
Tataouine
© Flickr user Iñaki Martínez de MarigortaStar Wars Mos Espa set in Tozeur.
Over the weekend, Tunisia received a jolt from a galaxy far, far away.

A space object, likely a meteorite, fell on Sunday in a rural desert area of the Tataouine governorate in southern Tunisia, not far from the filming location of the first Star Wars movie, according to local radio reports.

Witnesses, according to Radio Tataouine, say that a bright object was seen falling from the sky at around 8 p.m. and then exploded on the ground. The streaking space object was reportedly visible from the city of Tataouine, the governorate's capital.

No injuries or damages have been reported from the rural, arid area.

Comment: It's very unlikely that it struck the ground. Based on the following local news report, translated by SOTT.net, it sounds like it exploded overhead.

It did, however, alarm the Tunisian government into sending its military to the area...

Multiple deafening overhead explosions from incoming meteor shake Tunisian desert

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Multiple deafening overhead explosions from incoming meteor shake Tunisian desert


Tunisie Numerique
Mon, 16 Sep 2013 05:03 UTC
Meteor fall
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Translated by SOTT.net

Radio Tataouine has revealed information about the fall of a meteorite on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013 at around 20.15, in southern Tunisia at the town of Remada (Tataouine governorate). The locality was visited by Marzouki [editor: the interim President of Tunesia] a few days ago!

It happened shortly after 8 pm, when the deafening noise of three explosions rocked the entire region, which lies at the heart of a military buffer area created by the army.

Residents who feared the worst, given the magnitude of the explosions, were somewhat appeased by the intervention of the armed groups and the national guard who rushed to the scene of the impact and stated that it was actually a fall from a celestial body in this uninhabited area.

There is certainly a lot going on in this declared closed area!

Comment: We'll see how "appeased" the residents are when the army shows up after the next one's shockwaves hit terra firma!

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Flashback Bright orange fireball streaks above Wrexham, Wales, 14 October 2010

Hayley Collins
The Leader, Wales
Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:54 UTC
Wrexham Fireball
© The LeaderFireball.
It was described as looking like a plane on fire - or perhaps a tadpole.

Whatever it was, this distant object fired the imaginations of a father and daughter from Wrexham.

Jason Chandler and his daughter Jade were sitting on the rooftop terrace at their home when they spotted a bright orange fireball.

The pair, of St Giles Court, near Belle Vue Park, could not believe their eyes.
Jason, 40, said: "We saw what looked like a white cloud in the distance and as it went over Wrexham you could see that it was on fire.

"At first I thought it was a plane on fire. You could see the orange bit at the front.

"It looked like a tadpole, but as soon as it passed over you couldn't see the ball of fire anymore."

Ten-year-old Jade used her phone to take pictures of the amazing sight at about 6.30pm on Monday.

Comment: Dr O'Brien ought to be reading the Signs page!

Meteor's overhead explosion rocks Wrexham, Wales, 16 March 2011

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Flashback Meteor's overhead explosion rocks Wrexham, Wales, 16 March 2011

Phil Robinson
The Leader, Wales
Wed, 16 Mar 2011 04:56 UTC
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Emergency services dashed to the Pandy area of Wrexham to check out reports of a massive explosion.

Worried residents said the blast was followed by a sheet of white light which lit up the sky.

But after spending about two hours searching the area late on Monday night, police and fire service patrols found nothing to indicate what caused the bang, which was heard as far away as Acton and is said to have been so severe that it shook buildings.

Calls from concerned residents began flooding into North Wales Police at around 10pm.

North Wales Fire and Rescue Service was also alerted and sent three crews from the Wrexham station to Pandy.
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Best of the Web: How many falling fireballs and sun-grazing comets will it take to wake people up?

Higher Truth Channel
YouTube
Tue, 03 Sep 2013 16:28 UTC
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A video collection of just some of the fireballs that have been seen around the world in the past couple of years, along with some stats that indicate they are happening more and more often.


Comment: Should we be worried? NASA certainly is. Their advice?

Pray...



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UPS plane 'crash' near Alabama airport - meteorite?

Joe Quinn
JoeQuinn.net
Thu, 15 Aug 2013 00:00 UTC
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Just wanted to put out a few interesting details about Wednesday's crash of a UPS cargo plane (Airbus A300) near Alabama airport at around 5am on Wednesday 14th August 2013 as it approached Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Airport

From this Chicago Tribune story:
There was a big explosion that lit up the sky. It jarred the earth.
[...]

No distress calls were made to the airport tower, according to April Odom, a spokeswoman for Bell.
[...]

"It was quite a large fire and there were two to three explosions after the plane caught fire, after the crash itself," Bell said.
[...]

Pedro Torres, who lives about two blocks from the crash site, saw "a big flash" from the window of his home when the plane went down.

Comment: Interesting that another meteor just blew over Birmingham, Alabama yesterday as well.
Baseball-sized meteor blows up over Alabama

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Alabama overhead explosion caused sonic boom and 'came from unknown comet'

Irene Klotz
Reuters
Tue, 10 Sep 2013 00:00 UTC
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The meteor, traveling at about 76,000 mph, exploded about 25 miles above Woodstock, Alabama.
A baseball-sized meteor blasted over the southeastern United States on Monday night, creating a bright streak of light, a sonic boom and a ruckus on Twitter, officials said on Tuesday.

The meteor appeared at 9:18 p.m. EDT over Alabama, traveling at about 76,000 mph. It exploded 25 miles above Woodstock, Alabama, located about 30 miles from Birmingham.

"Objects of this size hit the Earth's atmosphere on a daily basis, but this one happened near Birmingham, which is a fairly decently sized city and lot of people saw it," Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, told Reuters.

Many of the more than 180 eyewitness reports came from people attending a Mumford & Sons concert in Birmingham.

"This one wasn't at 2 in the morning, so a lot of people were out and about," Cooke said.

"I saw what I first thought was a falling star and then it turned bright green," an observer from Anniston, Alabama, posted on the American Meteor Society website.
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Large green fireball explodes over Alabama, event seen from surrounding states, filmed at Mumford and Sons Birmingham concert

Vincent Perlerin
American Meteor Society
Tue, 10 Sep 2013 06:12 UTC
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© AMS.orgHeat Map For AMS Event 2013/1907
Over 80 (so far) witnesses reported a large fireball over Alabama last night (9/9) around 8:35 PM local CDT (1:30 on 10/9 UT). The fireball was seen from primarily Alabama and Ohio, but witnesses from Michigan, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Virginia and Kentucky also reported seeing the fireball.

We are currently investigating dozen of reports about this event. We will update this page later today with more information.

Here is the current heat map for the event
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© Dr.Bill Cooke, NASAThe fireball event was captured on all-sky cameras in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee at 20:18 CDT on 9 Sept 2013.

that shows where the witnesses reported from. Click the image below to review the event map and witness reports for this fireball.

Someone caught the fireball on video at the Mumford & Sons concert at Oak Mountain Amphitheater in Birmingham, AL.


Comment: Remember this from 5 days ago?

Green fireball seen over eastern U.S. coast

And this from 1 week ago?

Small asteroid explodes over Georgia-Tennessee border: Fireball was 20 times brighter than Moon

And this from 4 months ago?



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Second meteor explosion over Ferrara, Italy, within two days


strangesounds.org
Sat, 07 Sep 2013 08:32 UTC
A first meteorite exploded in the sky of Ferrara Italy on September 3 2013. Two days after, this one was filmed by the exact same cameras.


The images were shot at 10:11 pm on September 5, 2013 west of Ferrara, Italy.

Comment: See also Massive fireball causes overhead explosion in Italy 3 September-2013

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Green fireball seen over eastern U.S. coast


CBS DC
Thu, 05 Sep 2013 16:59 UTC
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© Peter O Connell / Twitter
What in the world was that?

People tweeting about a green light "falling" from the sky Wednesday don't have the slightest clue.

But according to Geoff Chester, of the U.S. Naval Observatory, the celestial display was a rock, "probably something about the size of a basketball," entering the Earth's atmosphere at a speed in excess of 40 miles per second.

"Friction with the Earth's atmosphere causes the characteristic greenish glow," he says.

The light was seen by people up and down the Eastern Seaboard late Wednesday evening.

Chester says these "fireballs" occur almost daily, but aren't always reported because 70 percent of the planet's surface is covered in water and because most of the world's people reside near coast lines.

Obviously, since this light was visible to the East Coast of the U.S., plenty of people spotted it.
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