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Question

Loud, home-shaking boom heard in Branson, Missouri area

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Did you hear a boom Tuesday afternoon, too?

Several viewers from Branson to Mountain Home shared with us they heard a loud boom around 4 p.m. They also say the boom shook their homes.

Taney County Sheriff Jimmie Russell says his office received several calls throughout the county. He doesn't know exactly what it is. He believes it could be a sonic boom. As for what this is, when we find out, we'll let you know.

The Ozarks has a history with these type of 'booms.' When they happen, law enforcement say they receive 60 to 75 calls.

Comment: See also: Loud booms heard, felt in northern Arkansas and south central Missouri.


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Meteor fireball explodes over Costa Rica, possibly crashes into home

Meteor over Costa Rica
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A large meteor fireball exploded in the sky over Costa Rica on April 23, 2019 at 9:09pm.

People reported seeing flashes in the sky. Others reported hearing loud booms and feeling rumblings.

On the same evening a rock fell from the sky, making a hole in a roof in Aguas Zarcas, San Carlos, Alajuela. Now experts will analyse the rock to determine its origin. But I bet it is a meteorite!

The woman who found the space rock in her house explains she heard a loud rumble, went to the back of her house, discovered the hole in the roof and found the warm rock on the floor.

Now, cosmochemist (I am one of those :-)) will have to analyse the chemical composion of the rock to determine where this rock comes from... But it is ... the meteorite!


Comment: Just two weeks earlier, a bright meteor fireball was filmed streaking through Puerto Rico skies.


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'Green meteor' streaks across skies of northern Melbourne, Geelong, Australia Easter weekend

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While locals around Geelong and Wyndham have been enjoying their Easter break, some have experienced an extra special moment.

Following Good Friday's supermoon, a meteor was also seen darting across the sky on Easter Saturday.

The brief, but bright, event occurred around 6:53pm in the northern part of the Melbourne and Geelong sky.

So far, the newsroom can confirm it was seen in Glen Waverley and Werribee in Melbourne, as well as Mildura, Swan Hill and the Murray River.

Hardhat

'Loud bang' heard in Suffolk, England

Loud boom in Suffolk, England
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A mystery bang left families in Claydon and Great Blakenham in shock last night - with some fearing it was the result of a crash on the A14 and others concerned there may have been an explosion.

But this morning, with those theories disproved, they have been left scratching their heads over what the loud bang could have been - and wondering if it could have been a sonic boom or even a 'skyquake'.

There have been further reports of another loud bang being heard in Martlesham and Kesgrave at around 8pm.

Harrison Cartwright, from Claydon, was at the doctors at 6.45pm when he heard the loud clash and then felt the room shake.

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Officials baffled over loud, house-shaking boom heard in northern Ohio city

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Several people in and around Elyria are talking about a deep, loud, house shaking boom that occurred Wednesday night, just after 9 p.m.
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We checked with Elyria Fire who had no reports of any explosions.

Elyria Police did take a call.

"We received one call last night from a resident who lives in the southeast part of the city. We responded but were unable to determine what caused it," Elyria Police Chief Duane P. Whitely said. "We have no information on what caused the "boom.""

We also checked with Lorain County Dispatch and the only report of a loud noise they had last night was for loud music.

Telescope

House-sized asteroid whizzes past earth

House-sized asteroid whizzes past Earth
© ESA/P. CarrilAn artist's depiction of a potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid.
An asteroid the size of a house gave Earth a close shave today (April 18), passing nearer to our planet than any other space rock will for the rest of this year - that is, as far as we know.

Named 2019 GC6, the asteroid was discovered by NASA's Catalina Sky Survey near Tucson, Arizona, just last Tuesday (April 9), nine days before it flew by Earth. The giant rock made its closest approach this morning at 2:41 a.m. EDT (0641 GMT), when it whizzed by our plant at a safe distance of about 136,000 miles (219,000 kilometers), or slightly more than half the average distance between Earth and the moon.

At the time, the asteroid was traveling at a relative speed of about 12,600 mph (20,300 km/h), according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA estimated that the speeding space rock's diameter is "within a factor of two" of 49 feet (15 meters), which means it may be up to 98 feet (30 meters) wide.

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Bright green meteor fireball streaks over northern Germany

Very bright meteor fireball over Germany on April 16, 2019.
© AMSVery bright meteor fireball over Germany on April 16, 2019.
A bright green fireball was seen and recorded streaking through the night sky above northern Germany on April 16, 2019 around 21:51 UT.

The American Meteor Society (AMS) received more than 60 reports of event 1774-2019 from Germany, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands.

A video was uploaded to AMS showing the event together with 1775-2019, which shows another bright meteor fireball blaze over the US east coast. AMS has received 417 reports of this event on Wednesday, April 17th 2019 around 02:57 UT.


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Dazzling meteor fireball spotted soaring over Washington DC area

A meteor was seen along the U.S. East Coast on late Tuesday night
© Steve ChazinA meteor was seen along the U.S. East Coast on late Tuesday night
Hundreds of people in the Mid-Atlantic and New England reported they looked up on Tuesday night and saw a meteor hurtling through the skies.

The meteor soared over the D.C. area about 11 p.m., and the brilliant shine caught a lot of eyes.

Steve Chazin was driving from Virginia's Dulles Airport on Route 50 when his dashcam caught the sight: an illuminated orb flying through the skies, surrounded by a glow and backed by a tail.

The American Meteor Society had 325 reports of the celestial event pour in from Washington, D.C., and 11 states, including Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.


Comment: Additional footage of the event:








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A meteor fireball flies over the Mediterranean, falling off the Moroccan coast

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On Sunday, a fireball was recorded by a Spanish platform that detects meteoroids. The rock was produced by a rock detached from an asteroid, a Spanish astrophysicist told Yabiladi.

On Sunday, April the 14th, a fireball was spotted near the Moroccan coast. The phenomenon was recorded in the framework of the SMART project (University of Huelva), created to detect meteoroids interacting with the Earth's atmosphere, Meteor News reported.

It was produced by a meteoroid from the Virginids that hit the atmosphere at about 65,000 km/h, the scientific platform added.

Speaking to Yabiladi on Tuesday, Spanish astrophysicist José María Madiedo who is part of the SMART project said that the fireball that flew over the Mediterranean «was produced by a rock detached from an asteroid.



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Meteor fireball lights up the sky in the upper Midwest

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People in the Dakotas, Minnesota and Western Wisconsin witnessed something rare Sunday night, April 14, when a bright meteor lit up the night sky.

Jason Doty of south Fargo caught this video the fireball on his doorbell camera at 11:20 p.m.

A fireball is a larger than average meteor, a rock in space that hits the atmosphere at high speed causing it to burn up.

Thousands of fireballs occur every day around the globe, but most are not seen because they are usually over the ocean.

(See video here)

Comment: Two nights later another: Meteor fireball streaks through Minnesota's night sky