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The bright teardrop-shaped meteor fell at about 11:55pm EST and eyewitnesses reported a five to six second descent, followed by a bright flash that lit up the sky like a firework.
Fire in the Sky
The bright teardrop-shaped meteor fell at about 11:55pm EST and eyewitnesses reported a five to six second descent, followed by a bright flash that lit up the sky like a firework.
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Residents in Tasmania's south captured the fast flash of light on camera.
Residents in Tasmania's south captured the fast flash of light on camera.
Amateur photographer Leoni Williams captured a shot of the green streak about 9:30pm on Thursday by "accident".
Overlooking Pipe Clay Lagoon, toward Clifton Beach in southern Tasmania, Ms Williams had her camera facing south in anticipation of an Aurora.
"I was very lucky to capture this bright green object before it disappeared over the horizon," Ms Williams said.
"I'm still not sure what it was. I didn't actually see it with the naked eye as I wasn't watching. I had just set the camera on 30 seconds and pushed the shutter and turned back to my phone.
"I would imagine it was pretty quick. I nearly missed it because it was at the end of the exposure."Photo sparked social media debate
Ms Williams took to social media to try and find out what she'd captured on camera.
Opinions varied, with some thinking it was a shooting star, a fallen satellite or even a UFO.
Spotted from the Huon Valley to Dodges Ferry, other photos began popping up on social media.
Eventually, it was shared on social media page Australian Meteor Reports.
"It's definitely a meteor," page administrator David Finlay said.
"That flash that's been captured is a very, very bright meteor - it's what we'd call a 'fireball'. It probably lit up the countryside."Mr Finlay - a former industrial chemist who has been studying astronomy from an very early age - said the flash was created by a "small rock from space, blazing through the atmosphere, creating friction with the atmosphere".
"It glows and ionises gas - that's what you see as this fireball blazing through the sky.
"If it actually survives atmospheric entry and lands as a rock on land, that's what we call a meteorite - only if it makes it to the ground."
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Meteor observed by camera in Douglassville, Berks County, around 6:13 am EST on Thursday, March 28, 2019. Witnesses across the East Coast described seeing a fireball in the sky that morning, including to people in Philadelphia.
Meteor observed by camera in Douglassville, Berks County, around 6:13 am EST on Thursday, March 28, 2019. Witnesses across the East Coast described seeing a fireball in the sky that morning, including to people in Philadelphia.
"It was very large! Much bigger than any type of shooting star I have seen. The flames around it were evident!" one report from Bethlehem read.
The reports to the American Meteor Society put the fireball's appearance as around 6:15 a.m. EDT. Sunrise on Thursday was 6:46 a.m.
The nonprofit society lists dozens of reports of this fireball as pending on its website, amsmeteors.org.
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Meteor fireball over Santa Catarina, Brazil on March 24, 2019.
Meteor fireball over Santa Catarina, Brazil on March 24, 2019.
A video has been uploaded on the AMS Website. AMS Event: 1245-2019, Report 163602 (1245m-2019) Credit:V. Antonio Geraldo.
A security camera at Roberts Sand Company in Quincy captured video of the apparent meteorite.
"It came across the sky and you could see the fire trail behind it," said operations manager Dwyane Fox.
Fox told WCTV's Katie Kaplan that something flashing and bright had caught his eye it about 7:10 a.m.
"I looked up at it and you could see the fireball coming down and parts coming off of it and a little bit of black smoke coming off," he said.
Did you see it?
#Fireball caught over Elmira Corning Regional Airport, NY last night.
— AMSMETEORS (@amsmeteors) March 19, 2019
68 reports so far: https://t.co/ZHOkMko7UX
If you saw this event, please report it: https://t.co/N0EuOVkOgj pic.twitter.com/QQVTB5DOYA
As of now, there are eighty seven reports on the AMS website about the fireball, which can be seen streaking across the sky in the video above.
Fireball over Kamchatka peninsula in December went largely unnoticed at the time
A meteor explosion over the Bering Sea late last year unleashed 10 times as much energy as the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, scientists have revealed.
The fireball tore across the sky off Russia's Kamchatka peninsula on 18 December and released energy equivalent to 173 kilotons of TNT. It was the largest air blast since another meteor hurtled into the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, in Russia's south-west, six years ago, and the second largest in the past 30 years.
Unlike the Chelyabinsk meteor, which was captured on CCTV, mobile phones and car dashboard cameras, the December arrival from outer space went largely unnoticed at the time because it exploded in such a remote location.
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The atmospheric explosion (bottom right) and debris trail left by the exploding meteor over the Bering Strait in December 2018
The atmospheric explosion (bottom right) and debris trail left by the exploding meteor over the Bering Strait in December 2018
The fireball tore across the sky off Russia's Kamchatka peninsula on 18 December and released energy equivalent to 173 kilotons of TNT. It was the largest air blast since another meteor hurtled into the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk, in Russia's south-west, six years ago, and the second largest in the past 30 years.
Unlike the Chelyabinsk meteor, which was captured on CCTV, mobile phones and car dashboard cameras, the December arrival from outer space went largely unnoticed at the time because it exploded in such a remote location.
Comment: Raindrops keep falling on our heads...
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A truck drives along the M54 federal highway on the bank of the Us river in the Western Sayan mountains in Krasnoyarsk region, Russia, November 4, 2016.
A truck drives along the M54 federal highway on the bank of the Us river in the Western Sayan mountains in Krasnoyarsk region, Russia, November 4, 2016.
Earlier, the Yenisei TV channel published a dashcam video, which showed a falling luminous body. It is reported that the incident occurred on Friday evening near the village of Tura.
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The meteorite came through the Earth's atmosphere as a fireball.
The meteorite came through the Earth's atmosphere as a fireball.
The meteorite is believed to have landed south of Al Wathba after being captured on camera by Abu Dhabi's Astronomy Centre.
Meteorites can contain grains of stardust older than our solar system and hold information about its formation and the geological history of the Earth, Moon and stars.
But it will not be easy to find the remains of last Tuesday's fireball, thought to be a meteorite of one to three centimetres in diameter and weighing between two and 10 grams.
Abu Dhabi astronomers narrowed down the landing site to a desert area of about 15 square kilometres in the south-east of the emirate.
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Update: The Khaleej Times on 13th March reports:
Another bright fireball, the second in a week, was spotted in UAE skies late Tuesday night (March 12) at around 11:50pm, local time.
This is actually the second fireball to be spotted in the UAE skies in one week, after the first one appeared on Tuesday night, March 5, at exactly 7:40:11, according to a senior official.
Eng Mohammed Shawkat, Director of the International Astronomy Centre Abu Dhabi, told Khaleej Times that investigations and calculations are underway to identify the route, altitude, speed, and expected location of the new meteor.
"The Centre has received many calls from eye witnesses who affirmed that they did see that bright fireball in the UAE sky late on Tuesday night."
This is actually the third meteor to be spotted in the UAE skies since the Centre was founded in 2016, he pointed out.
"The first super bright fireball was recorded on October 1, 2016, the second on March 5, and this is the third on March 12."
The new meteor, as was the case with last week's fireball, has been recorded by a special network of astronomical cameras, he added.
"These sophisticated cameras have been installed by the International Astronomy Centre at different parts of the country, and these are managed in collaboration with the US space agency NASA."
The network consists of several stations, each having 16 astronomical cameras pointed at the sky at all times, he elaborated.
"These automatically record any meteor(s) that appears in the sky, sending high definition clips to the station they are connected to, which are instantly transferred to the main center in Abu Dhabi."
Possible parts of burnt meteor located
Meanwhile, a team of experts from the Centre have managed to locate possible parts of the burnt meteor that fell in the UAE desert last week, Eng Shawkat exclusively told Khaleej Times.
"A team of four groups have been dispatched to the expected site of the meteor that fell on Tuesday."
Each and every group, equipped with special scan and search gadgets, was assigned to excessively search a particular area, he added.
"The 3.5-hour-long search, from 2:30pm to 6pm, ended in finding two possible samples; the first was a dark rock, while the second was a rock mixed with rusted iron."
On the spot tests showed some magnetic traits of the second sample, he explained.
"The experts at the centre immediately contacted NASA and shared the pictures of the samples collected."
The second sample of rust iron rock is mostly of an old meteor, he underlined.
"However, the Centre experts are to move to the second stage - and lab test the sample to identify its content and nature."
The first super bright fireball has been video recorded by two astronomical cameras; one fitted at the Ramah station, and one at the Al Wajan station, Eng Shawkat stated.
"Based on these calculations, the meteor was found to have been orbiting at a distance of 384 million km off the sun."
"The meteor was travelling at a speed of 67,000 kmph when it entered the Earth's atmosphere."
The object started burning at an altitude of 93km from the Earth's surface between UAE's Al Qooa and Umm Al Zamul areas, he pointed out.
"It then flew to the northwest when the fire came to an end at an altitude of 35km close to Razeen area."
Eng Shwkat added that the meteor might not have entirely got burnt. "Parts of the meteor, mostly 2 to 10gm, have most likely reached the UAE desert, close to the Arabian Nights Village Resort."
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AMS observers map - Event 1061-2019
AMS observers map - Event 1061-2019
Many of these reports describe an impressive phenomenon according to actu.fr. A resident of Lot-et-Garonne explains having observed a "meteoroid", "brilliant" , "sparkling" and so "close" that she had the impression that it was going to crash around her house .
"This is the first time I see a phenomenon as long and as big, I thought a plane on fire," said a resident from Tarn-et-Garonne. Another one even reported "a big boom" on the side of Tarbes.
On Twitter too, people wondered what they saw.
Comment: Last week another streaking fireball, believed to be meteorite, was spotted over Gadsden County, Florida.