The Clima ao Vivo and Bramon cameras recorded a super fire during the night of this Tuesday (27), which streaked across the sky of Alagoas, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Bahia and Sergipe.
To be considered a super bolide, the meteor must shine brighter than the moon: brighter than a visual magnitude of -17. Indicates probable generation of meteorites (meteor that reaches the ground and debris can be found there). Super bolides are always explosive, large and very bright.
We received 9 reports about a fireball seen over England, Gelderland, Nordrhein-Westfalen, North Holland, Région Wallonne, Utrecht and Zuid-Holland on Tuesday, February 27th 2024 around 23:50 UT.
We received 18 reports about a fireball seen over Maine, Massachusetts, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Québec and Vermont on Tuesday, February 27th 2024 around 01:51 UT.
We received 19 reports about a fireball seen over AL, Alabama, IL, Illinois, Kentucky, KY, Missouri, MO, Tennessee and TN on Sunday, February 25th 2024 around 08:11 UT.
For this event, we received 5 videos and one photo.
We received 391 reports about a fireball seen over CT, DC, DE, Delaware, MA, Maryland, MD, MI, NC, New Jersey, New York, NJ, North Carolina, NY, OH, Ohio, Ontario, PA, Pennsylvania, VA, Virginia, West Virginia and WV on Wednesday, February 21st 2024 around 23:48 UT.
The stunning fireball in this video was recorded over Spain on 2024 February 18, at 23:08 local time (equivalent to 22:08 universal time). It was almost as bright as the full Moon. The fireball was observed by a wide number of casual eyewitnesses, who reported it on social networks.
The event was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at about 54,000 km/h. The fireball overflew the province of A Coruña (region of Galicia, northwest of Spain). It began at an altitude of about 89 km over the locality of Teixeiro (province of A Coruña), moved northwest, and ended at a height of around 25 km over the locality of A Torre de San Bartolomeu (province of A Coruña).
The preliminary analysis of this event shows that the rock was not fully destroyed: a small part of the meteoroid could have survived and reach the ground as a meteorite.
This bright meteor was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN) from the meteor-observing stations located at La Hita (Toledo), and Coruña. The event has been analyzed by the team headed by Dr. Jose M. Madiedo (principal investigator of the SMART project), from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC).
We received 86 reports about a fireball seen over England, Friesland, Hauts-de-France, Noord-Holland, Utrecht, Vlaams Gewest, Zeeland and Zuid-Holland on Monday, February 19th 2024 around 17:46 UT.