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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.
Fire in the Sky
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Meteor fireball over Brazil 07.07.18
Meteor fireball over Brazil 07.07.18
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.
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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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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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.
According to EXOSS Citizen Science Project, the meteor had comparable brightness to the moon and lasted for a duration of 5 seconds. A camera from a sky-monitoring network registered the event, although the view of the middle part was covered by low cloud and the last part was blocked by a building.
The event comes just one month after another very bright fireball exploded over the Chinese city of Jinghong in Yunnan Province.
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Time and again, humans have encountered tales about aliens, their world and a different universe that exist outside the proximity of Earth. And the unearthly objects have always fascinated the intrigue of a person. That intrigue was poked again on Friday when two hot "meteorite-looking" embers were found in the village of Kasoli in Uttar Pradesh by the locals.
According to Sub-divisional Magistrate Kumar Dharmendra, the hot stones fell down making a loud sound after a rainfall in the village. Dharmendra said, the stones have been taken into "safe custody" and will be investigated for experts to examine and identify whether they are meteorites.
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Vesta, as captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft in 2011, features a mountain that rises more than 65,000 feet above the asteroid's south pole.
Vesta, as captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft in 2011, features a mountain that rises more than 65,000 feet above the asteroid's south pole.
Vesta, a 326-mile-wide object residing in the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars, is about to make its closest approach to Earth in nearly two decades. But don't worry, unlike other close calls with asteroids in recent history, Vesta is in a stable orbit around the sun that will only bring it within 106 million miles of Earth. Nonetheless, this convergence will make it visible to the naked eye, with a magnitude brightness approaching a maximum of 5.3 this week.
Unlike other asteroids, Vesta's internal geology mimics those of terrestrial planets, with a metallic iron-nickel core covered by a surface crust of basaltic rock. In fact, it's this "frozen lava" that gives Vesta its beautiful reflectivity, casting back 43 percent of all light that hits it. (For comparison, our moon only reflects about 12 percent of all light.)
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Bright fireball explodes over central Russia on June 21, 2018.
Bright fireball explodes over central Russia on June 21, 2018.
The meteor was seen from the cities of Kursk, Lipetsk, Voronezh and Orel. A sonic boom was associated with this event and reported by residents.
An unexplained bright light was seen travelling across the sky above Toowoomba earlier this morning.
There may be an innocent explanation for it but it brings forward the age old question - are we alone in the universe?
It is something that divides people all across the world and when unexplained flashes of light or objects are snapped in the sky, the question is again brought to the forefront of people's minds. Most of the time they can be explained, but sometimes they can't.
This morning Nathan Murphy shared a photo he snapped of the puzzling light moving across the sky at 6.30am.
There may be an innocent explanation for it but it brings forward the age old question - are we alone in the universe?
It is something that divides people all across the world and when unexplained flashes of light or objects are snapped in the sky, the question is again brought to the forefront of people's minds. Most of the time they can be explained, but sometimes they can't.
This morning Nathan Murphy shared a photo he snapped of the puzzling light moving across the sky at 6.30am.
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Nathan Murphy captured a bright light in the sky outside his home in Wyreema.
Nathan Murphy captured a bright light in the sky outside his home in Wyreema.
Comment: Activity in our skies is certainly heating up - below are the events documented in just the last two weeks or so: