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Fire in the Sky
Regarded by many in the astronomy community as the best meteor display of the year, the Geminids peaked at around 50 meteors per hour. Eyewitness footage from around the world captured the phenomenon, caused by the debris trail of the asteroid 3200 Phaethon.
"[T]he predicted rate for observers in the Northern Hemisphere is closer to 60 meteors per hour," NASA officials wrote. "This means you can expect to see an average of one Geminid per minute in dark skies at the shower peak."
The Slooh online observatory, which remotely operates a number of telescopes around the world, also carries a live stream of the event.
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Observers map for event 7648-2020
Observers map for event 7648-2020
One video was uploaded (credit @flightlevel150) to the AMS website:
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Like many, Fisher turned to social media for a quick explanation.
Almost immediately, just before 11 p.m., residents of Hendersonville's Walton Ferry and Indian Lake peninsulas, Old Hickory and Hermitage flooded social media sites on Facebook and Nextdoor seeking answers.
And everyone, it seemed, had a theory - from a blown transformer to fireworks or gunshots to an explosion at the DuPont chemical plant to blasting at a rock quarry in Old Hickory.
Hendersonville Fire Chief Scotty Bush said he heard what sounded like a transformer blow from his living room on the Indian Lake peninsula.
A mysterious flaming rock in the sky has had people in Morecambe scratching their heads.
What appeared to be a "big rock on fire" was seen over the town at around 8.15am on Monday (December 7).
Two 11-year-old boys, Thomas Wilson and Jay Grounds, saw the strange object while walking to school and managed to take a picture of it:
Jay's mum, Beth, said: "My son and his friend Thomas saw what the described as a big rock on fire in the sky this morning on their way to school and Thomas got this picture of it. Did anyone else see it around 8.15am?"
She added that the boys said that it disappeared from view after a few moments.
What appeared to be a "big rock on fire" was seen over the town at around 8.15am on Monday (December 7).
Two 11-year-old boys, Thomas Wilson and Jay Grounds, saw the strange object while walking to school and managed to take a picture of it:
© Thomas Wilson and Jay Grounds
She added that the boys said that it disappeared from view after a few moments.
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Observers map for event 7440-2020
Observers map for event 7440-2020
For this event, AMS received one video.
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Nobody seems to know what the noise was, which seemingly took place at around 12.22am (Sunday December 6).
One person on Twitter said: "Anyone in Bath UK hear that? MASSIVE boom???"
To which someone replied: "Yeah, what was it?"
When asked what kind of noise it was, the witness said: "A really loud concussive bang. Felt it as well as heard it. It echoed. Nothing like a firework or a car back firing."
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Beginning about 12:15 p.m., NorthEscambia.com was flooded with messages and comments from people reporting the incident. As of 12:40 p.m., Escambia County 911 had not received any calls reporting damage.
A majority of the comments were concentrated in the Cantonment and Beulah areas, but other reports were received from across Escambia and Santa Rosa counties
So far, the U.S. Geological Survey has not reported an earthquake.
Comment: Uhm, this is almost identical to the report this North Escambria publication put out 2 months earlier in October 2020.
Stranger things have happened!
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Here is a map of reported fireball sightings around the Northeast Wednesday afternoon.
According to the American Meteor Society, the sound heard across Central New York came at the same time witnesses reported seeing a meteor streaking across the sky in other areas not under dense cloud cover.
"We currently have 41 reports of this fireball." Robert Lunsford of the American Meteor Society told us. "It seems that central New York and northern Pennsylvania had cloudy skies and therefore did not see the fireball. If skies had been clear I'm certain that the trajectory would shift toward central NY, where the reports of sounds are numerous."
The bolide was generated by a rock from a comet that hit the atmosphere at about 147,000 km / h. It began at an altitude of about 112 km over the sea, and ended at a height of around 72 km after traveling about 77 km in the Earth's atmosphere.
The event was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN), from the meteor-observing stations located at Calar Alto (Almería), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Sagra (Granada), La Hita (Toledo), and Seville.
Comment: Video of the boom can be heard here.