Shortly after midnight from Monday to Tuesday, residents in parts of Poland witnessed a vivid flash in the night sky. The cause was a meteoroid hurtling towards Earth, its flight captured by observation stations affiliated with the Skytinel project.
"The fireball, whose trajectory passed entirely over the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship in Poland, was observed by two monitoring stations affiliated with our project: SN05 (operated by Dariusz Wiosna) and SN07 (operated by Mateusz Roman). Fortunately, no meteorites reached the ground this time," confirmed the authors of the Skytinel research project, which gathers enthusiasts of sky observation.
Calculations indicated that the meteoroid became visible at an altitude of 95.42 km and traveled towards Earth at an initial speed of approximately 25 km/s. During its flight, it decelerated to about 9 km/s and completely burned up at an altitude of 38.45 km, explained representatives of Skytinel on their websites.
Melburnians were treated to a remarkable sight on Wednesday night, as a “huge” meteor lit up the sky.
Experts say back-to-back sightings of multiple fireballs detected across Victoria overnight were purely coincidental.
The events were detected by the Global Fireball Network — an Australia-wide network of cameras designed to track meteoroids entering the atmosphere.
Monash University professor and member of the network Andy Tomkins said thefirst sighting came in just before 6:30pm, followed by another about 9pm and two more just after 4am.
Dozens of Victorians reported spotting meteors across several locations including in the suburbs of Frankston, Footscray and Seaford.
"That's not uncommon with large fireballs, because they burn up in the upper atmosphere quite high up in the sky," Professor Tomkins said.
Clima ao Vivo and Bramon cameras recorded a bright meteor that occurred in the early hours of this Saturday (22), which streaked across the sky of cities in the Southeast and South.
We received 177 reports about a fireball seen over DC, DE, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, MD, NC, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, SC, South Carolina, Tennessee, VA, Virginia and WV on Wednesday, June 26th 2024 around 01:30 UT.
We received 28 reports about a fireball seen over Connecticut, CT, DC, DE, MA, MD, NJ, NY, Ontario, PA and VA on Sunday, June 16th 2024 around 05:18 UT.
For this event, we received 3 videos and 2 photos.
The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
