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Over 17,000 near-Earth asteroids remain undetected in our solar neighborhood.
Over 17,000 near-Earth asteroids remain undetected in our solar neighborhood.
The incoming asteroids are currently being monitored by NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). As noted by the agency, the first asteroid that will fly past Earth tomorrow has been identified as 2020 KK7.
CNEOS estimated that this asteroid measures about 108 feet wide. It is currently flying towards Earth at an average velocity of almost 34,000 miles per hour.
According to CNEOS, this asteroid will approach Earth on June 2 at 4:43 a.m. EDT. During this time, the asteroid will be about 0.00343 astronomical units or roughly 319,000 miles from the planet's surface. This means the asteroid will fly past Earth from a distance that's slightly farther than that between the planet and the Moon.
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Samantha Deann Pinson shared the video pointed at her driveway in Burleson, which showed the green ball of light streak across the frame.
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Residents of Armenia's Kotyak province were likely in for quite a surprise on the evening of 27 May as a flying object, which Public Radio of Armenia suggests might've been a meteor, flashed across the sky.
According to the media outlet, videos of this event that started emerging online show the object falling in the vicinity of the town of Hrazdan which is located about 45 kilometers northeast of the capital Yerevan.
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According to Turkish news website Daily Sabah a "ball of light" was observed in several provinces at around 8:30 pm local time, including Artvin, Erzurum, Sivas, Tuncel and Ardahan.
Hürriyet reports that a sound similar to thunder was heard as a result of the explosion.
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Don Schmitz sent in the video, which shows a large fireball, possibly a meteor, falling to Earth at about 1 a.m. on May 22.
He says it happened to the southwest of the community.
CTV News has reached out to experts at the Rothney Observatory for any information on the sighting.
Taber is located approximately two and a half hours southeast of Calgary.
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Waipuna bridge: did a meteorite crash land into the Tamaki River?
Waipuna bridge: did a meteorite crash land into the Tamaki River?
Reports of a "bright light" and "an explosion" flooded the east Auckland grapevine page as local people recounted what they had seen. Many speculated a meteor, a rocket from nearby Rocket Lab, or even a flare was responsible.
Corinne Hill, whose property on Pakuranga Rd backs on to the river saw "A Bright orange-red (object) about the size of 3 full moons joined together. It (sic) was travelling at speed over the water till it appeared to hit the water and disappeared."
According to Hill, the object made no sound, and by the time she "went to get binoculars out" it had gone.
Ms Hill also stated the object "It appeared to grow in size as it travelled, so my initial thought was it looked like a ball of fire but then I got wondering what it was. There were cars on the bridge at the time commuting, so I was thinking one of them may have also seen it."
Police, The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), and Stardome observatory were approached for comment.
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Videos and pictures emerged showing what witnesses described as a "flaming" object falling from the skies over Midlothian last week, on Thursday night.
Gorebridge resident, Briege Reynolds, initially thought it was a crashing helicopter but believes it wasn't an aircraft at all.
Speaking to Edinburgh Live previously, she said: "I was actually feeding my dogs in the kitchen and the back door was open when I saw it, so I just pulled out my phone to video it.
"I thought it was something crashing, like a helicopter, but it didn't look like a helicopter. It looked like a half-circle, kind of like a capsule. There was a trail of orange smoke, and then there was no smoke, and it seemed to be spiralling down."
Reports on Facebook site Deal Watch claim the explosion-type sound was heard across parts of Walmer, Deal, Sholden and Sandwich at about 9pm.
Some said it was like a ship's distress flare while others describe it as like thunder, a firework, a car tyre bursting or a sonic boom.
Walmer resident Rachel Jones said: "I heard several different theories - a tyre blown on Dover Road, fireworks, gas bottle explosion, Defence testing... no one seems to know for definite though, but someone confirmed it wasn't the lifeboat.
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Stills show a flash of light believed to be a meteor or space debris passing over the sky in Spokane Thursday night.
Stills show a flash of light believed to be a meteor or space debris passing over the sky in Spokane Thursday night.
The flashes of light, seen by many locals and captured on many dash and front-door cameras, occurred just before midnight Thursday. Videos posted on the American Meteor Society's website show it disappearing after a few seconds.
David Syphers, an astronomy professor at Eastern Washington University, said Thursday night's meteor was not something area astronomers could predict because it was likely never a part of a comet.
Meteor showers are created when Earth passes through the path of a comet and debris is caught in the earth's gravity field and enters the atmosphere. The next meteor shower, called the Perseids, will occur from mid July to late August, according to NASA's website. It occurs when the Earth passes through leftover particles from the Swift-Tuttle comet.
When a single meteor falls, it is usually either man-made debris from space, such as a satellite, or rock and ice from an asteroid.
Comment: Earlier this month another meteor fireball was filmed over Washington state. It produced a "huge boom that shook the house," according to one witness.