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Fireball spotted over Belgium


RTL Infos
Wed, 14 Dec 2016 22:58 UTC
Fireball Belgium
Photo taken at 08:42 am in Aarschot by Lionel D.
Several messages have been received from Brussels, Namur and Charleroi. All reports of a similar observation: "There was a fireball in the sky this morning".

"Frankly, it was immense" comments Ferhat, a resident of Goutroux, after joining us via our orange button Alert us. Around 6:10 am on Wednesday, the young man leaves his house and heads for his car. At that moment, a luminous phenomenon would have attracted his attention in the sky: "It lasted for a second, it explains, justifying the fact that it does not have photos of the phenomenon, but the light was very dense It was like a ball of fire going down with a long white trail in the back, there was blue at the level of the ball. "
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SOTT Exclusive: Four Fireballs Streak Across Irish Sky


Sott.net
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 21:57 UTC
On Tuesday, December 13th 2016, Sharon Owens, a resident of Bodyke, Co.Clare, Ireland, reported seeing not one but four fireballs streak across the morning sky.

Not long after sunrise, Ms. Owens spotted the first of four very bright meteors from a window of her home. Speaking to Sott.net, Mrs. Owens stated:
"I was actually pulling the curtains in the morning at the windows at the back of my sitting room and saw [the first fireball] between the trees. I then got my phone camera and ran outside with my daughter and stood at the side of the garden taking photos. I was able to get a clearer picture from there so was sure what I was seeing.

I've watched enough videos about meteors/fireballs, so I knew what these were. I was excited to see one, but then to see 3 more straight after was amazing. They came in one after the other. They were white and had a brighter front. The end of the tails were sort of wiggly and breaking up. They were going really fast and I heard a bang, but only from one of them."
Below are two images of the fireballs photographed by Ms. Owens.
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© Sharon OwensOne of 4 fireballs seen over Bodyke, Ireland this morning
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Huge meteor fireball illuminates night sky over Spain (VIDEOS)


RT
Mon, 12 Dec 2016 21:24 UTC
meteor fireball over Spain
© videoslavoz / YouTube
A huge fireball hurled across the night sky in Spain at an approximate speed of 72,000 kilometers per hour. It was visible in all parts of the country and is believed to be a piece of an asteroid.

The fireball was first spotted by Spanish scientists at 22:25 local time on Sunday as it passed over the southern regions of Andalucia, Granada and Jaen.

The object was described as a part of an asteroid to El Pais by Jose Maria Madiedo, an astrophysicist of the University of Huelva.

It was "considerable in size" so that "it could survive its passage through the Earth's atmosphere," Madiedo told Europa Press.


Comment: NASA space data supports citizens' observations that - meteor fireball activity is increasing dramatically!

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© AMS
For more about fireballs over Spain see Jose Maria Madiedos' Twitter profile, or Youtube, or page about fireballs and meteors.

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Meteor fireball photographed hurtling towards ground in Wraysbury, UK

Ryan Gray
The Royal Borough Observer
Sun, 11 Dec 2016 17:47 UTC
Meteor over Wraysbury, UK
© Windsor Observer
Two young eagle-eyed sisters from Wraysbury were on hand to catch an astronomically rare photograph of a meteor hurtling towards the ground last weekend.

Phoebe, 12, and Jasmine Hale, 13, from Douglas Lane, spotted the burning space rock from a bedroom window in their house before running outside to the Wraysbury carp fishing lake behind their house to capture it on camera.

The girls' mother, Jamie Hale, said the sisters thought it might have been something else at first. She said: "Phoebe was looking out of her bedroom window at the back of the house and she could see something with flames falling from the sky.

"At first she thought it was a plane going down! "She ran down to the bank of the lake with Jasmine and Jasmine took her phone and took the photo.

"They said it was falling really fast and they watched it until it went out of sight. "They realised, when watching it, that it was a small meteor."
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Massive meteor fireball explodes several times off the coast of Norway


Strange Sounds
Sat, 10 Dec 2016 13:08 UTC
Fireball Norway
The fireball that exploded off Norway
A huge greenish fireball exploded several times off Norway on December 6, 2016 sparking fears among residents from both western and eastern Norway.

The meteor, 50 times brighter than a full moon, turned the night sky into day at 5:15am. Many people were awaken by loud booms.

5:15 am, December 6, 2016, the sky off Norway suddenly lit up. A huge fireball exploded over the Norwegian Sea, southwest of Sogn og Fjordane. Reports of the glowing blue sky were reported as far south as Kristiansand.

Calculated path of the huge fireball that exploded off Norway on December 6, 2016.
© The Norway Meteor Network Calculated path of the huge fireball that exploded off Norway on December 6, 2016.
A camera from the Norvegian Meteor Network, situated in Olso some 500km away, captured the powerful sky event:


This next video was shot from Bergen, Norway:


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© AMS


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Another fireball explodes over Siberian city


RT
Tue, 06 Dec 2016 16:44 UTC
siberian meteor fireball
© The Siberian Times
People in the Republic of Khakassia in southwest Siberia witnessed a large fireball exploding in the sky on Tuesday, which briefly made the evening as bright as the day. Some even managed to catch the event on camera.


Reports of the rare occurrence came from practically the whole of Khakassia, as well as from the neighboring Krasnoyarsk Region, local news website xakac.info reports.
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Blazing fireball sighting over Scotland was probably meteor

Rod Edgar
DNG24
Sun, 04 Dec 2016 19:46 UTC
Meteor fireball (stock)
© Ikonacolor/Getty Images (file photo)
A sighting of a fireball blazing its way across the sky near Annan has prompted more reports

An appeal by the UK Meteor Observation Network (UKMON) for sightings at about 5.15 pm last Wednesday prompted an account from someone driving from Eaglesfield to Annan.

Adding to the reports, Helen Carruthers said: "I saw a very bright white light for a few seconds as I was walking the dog in Ecclefechan on Wednesday at the time stated, and it travelled from left to right, then just disappeared."

Ed Woodman has also added his own account of the sighting. He said: "At approximately 5.15 pm I was approaching the the Tesco roundabout from Eastriggs when I noticed a light object with a faint trail behind it, shooting across the sky from east to west "It was moving at tremendous speed and initially I thought it was a low flying fighter jet. "But then, as it suddenly flared bright white, it disappeared."

Mark Toner from Dumfries Astronomy Society says November was a busy month for meteor sightings. Addressing the local sightings, Mark said: "If it was west to east I'd say they'd seen the International Space Station. "But the fact it's going east to west — there's very few things that do that in the evening like that and then disappear, because they're heading towards the sun."

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Meteor reported blazing across sky in Denmark

Lucie Rychla
The Copenhagen Post
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 06:58 UTC
Meteor over Denmark Nov 28th 2016
© YouTube/Sokamok (screen capture)

Many report seeing a fireball light up the dark winter sky

A meteor blazed across the Danish sky on Monday evening, according to astrophysicist Tina Ibsen from the Tycho Brahe Planetarium in Copenhagen.

People from all over the country have reported seeing a fireball streak through the sky at about 18:30.

"We have received many inquiries from people who saw a fireball," Ibsen told TV2.

"However, no-one has reported a bang or a sound, which indicates the meteor burnt up before it hit the Earth's surface."

Ibsen contends the phenomenon of a 'shooting star' is nothing unusual.


Comment: NASA space data supports citizens' observations that - meteor fireball activity is increasing dramatically!


Each year the Earth is hit by some 100,000 tonnes of meteoroids from outer space, but most of them burn up before they hit the ground.


Comment: A meteor was also captured on video over Słupsk, Poland.


The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 18 reports about a fireball seen over the Netherlands and surrounding regions on Monday, November 28th 2016 around 04:42 UT.

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Meteor fireball 'tore up the skies' in northeast Brazil

Lauriston Trindade
Lunar Meteorite Hunters
Sat, 26 Nov 2016 23:04 UTC
Brazil fireball
© High News
Piauí, Ceará and Pernambuco, Brasil 26NOV2016
20-30 Second Duration with Sonics Reported

On the night of that last Saturday (26) a big meteor tore up the skies of Ceará and Piauí. It could be seen, in addition to these two states, by Maranhão, Pernambuco, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte and Bahia.

Unfortunately, none of the cameras monitoring of BRAMON recorded the event, but we managed to collect around 40 reports in several cities close to what has happened and from these reports, we set up a trajectory estimated for the object, which can be seen in this map.

Meteor in Brazil trajectory map
© 2016 BramonSightings Map of 26NOV2016 Brasil Bolide.
The object began to shine on the ocean, next to the city of Fortaleza, and crossed the Ceará from north to south, passing near Crateús, where we received several reports. Entered the state of Piaui and went about the city of peaks.

There are reports that it was beyond the state of Piauí, toward the Bahia, but even if I don't have to come to both, the juggernaut presents pretty impressive numbers:
- lasted something between 20 and 30 seconds.
- travelled over 600 miles in the atmosphere.
- had a speed between 20 and 30 km / sec.
Until this moment, is very low the possibility that this is a re-entry of space junk, but still have not ruled out the possibility. The more likely it is that in the case of a meteor buzz, also called earthgrazer.

Comment: One of the reports made by a resident in the city of Hidrolândia said the fireball had an orange, yellow tone and was followed by noise similar to thunder.

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House in Indonesia hit by meteorite

Phesi Ester Julikawat
Tempo
Thu, 24 Nov 2016 09:16 UTC
A house hit by an alleged meteor
© Tempo.coA house hit by an alleged meteor.
Residents of Sungai Serut District, Bengkulu City, were surprised by a rock that is alleged to be a meteor that ripped through a house owned by Wahab (56), on Wednesday, November 24, 2016.

At the time of the incident, according to Wahab, he was having a casual conversation with his friend. Suddenly, they heard a loud thump from the inside of his house. The noise originated from his kitchen.

After a quick search, Wahab found a rounded smoky object that is as big as a basketball that had made it through his kitchen roof. "Not only did it hit the roof, the rock also destroyed the water dispenser and a water gallon, as well as a table," he said.

Wahab and a number of his friends flushed the rock with water and placed it outside the house. The locals broke the white-colored rock to pieces and gave it to a number of people as they believe that the meteorite has a certain effect.

The rest of the rock has been handed over to the police.
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