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Meteor fireball lights up Mexican skies and rains fire on northern states

RT
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 18:55 UTC

Residents across northeastern Mexico were stunned when a green-hued fireball lit up the night sky on Tuesday. Authorities reported that the fiery debris caused localised bushfires in the vicinity.

Reports came flooding in from across the northern state of Nuevo Leon after the suspected meteorite streaked across the sky at approximately 22:14 local time on Tuesday night.

Eyewitness and doorbell cam videos captured the intensity of the fiery phenomenon as it burned bright through the darkness.

Meteor fireball recorded over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Sott.net
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 07:40 UTC

The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 24 reports (event 5549-2020) about a meteor fireball seen over DE, IN, KY, MD, NJ, NY, OH, PA, VA and WV on Tuesday, October 6th 2020 around 06:11 UT.

A video from a Pittsburgh resident was uploaded to their website.

Bigger than an airliner: Huge asteroid hurls towards Earth's orbit

Andrei Dergalin
Sputnik
Mon, 05 Oct 2020 17:43 UTC

With somewhere between 36 and 83 meters in diameter, the asteroid will be traveling at a speed of about 6.68 kilometers per second as it passes Earth.

Our planet is about to have yet another brush with a massive chunk of rock from outer space in a matter of days, according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Objects.

The asteroid in question, designated 2020 RK2, was reportedly first spotted by astronomers last month.

With its size being somewhere between 36 and 83 meters in diameter, thus possibly rivaling that of a Boeing 747 airliner, the asteroid is expected to cross our planet's orbit on 7 October.

While the space rock will be traveling at the speed of about 6.68 kilometers per second, it is not actually expected to hit our planet, essentially making it yet another asteroid that flies harmlessly past Earth - a not that uncommon occurrence.

Residents report hearing 'loud explosion' across Nottingham, UK

Andrew Topping
Nottingham Post
Mon, 05 Oct 2020 13:58 UTC

Residents right across Nottingham have reported hearing a "loud explosion" and a "sonic boom" on Sunday evening.

Numerous reports have been made across social media and messaged into Nottinghamshire Live, with people reportedly hearing the 'loud bang' at around 10pm.

One reader messaged through to Nottinghamshire Live and said he heard it in Mapperley Park and that it made his flat feel like it was "shaking".

Fernando Martins, who described it as a "big and very quick explosion", said: "[It was] just as simple as a very loud muffled bang. "I cannot really make much sense of it, but at the same time it felt like a big and very quick explosion.

Ground-shaking, loud boom reported across Escambia County, Florida

northescambia.com
Sat, 03 Oct 2020 12:17 UTC

The sounds of an explosion or rattling and shaking were heard or felt across part of Escambia County Saturday afternoon, and so far no one seems to know why.

Beginning about 2 p.m., NorthEscambia.com was flooded with over 600 messages and comments from people reporting the incident, and Escambia County 911 also received numerous calls.

A majority of the comments were concentrated from Molino to the north to Beulah in the south, but other reports were received from across Escambia, Santa Rosa and Baldwin counties.

Escambia Fire Rescue checked the area out and found nothing. And the U.S. Geological Survey did not report a earthquake.

Click here to see a Facebook post with hundreds of reader reports.

Superbolide turns night into day over Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Marcelo Zurita
Bramonmeteor.org
Thu, 01 Oct 2020 07:19 UTC

A superbolide was recorded in Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina states by the cameras of BRAMON, Clima ao Vivo and Heller & Jung Observatory in the early morning hours of October 1st, 2020. Check out the video:

Bright meteor fireball blazes over central Spain

Meteoroides.net
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 07:19 UTC

This fireball was almost as bright as the Full Moon and overflew Spain on 2020 September 30 at about 1:23 local time (equivalent to 23:23 universal time on September 29). It was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at around 95,000 km/h. It began at an altitude of about 95 km over the province of Ciudad Real, and ended at a height of around 40 km.

The event was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, which is being conducted by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN). The event was spotted from the meteor-observing stations located at Sevilla, La Sagra (Granada), La Hita (Toledo), and Sierra Nevada (Granada).

Hundreds report meteor fireball blazing over Eastern US - UPDATE

Sarah Brookbank
Cincinnati Enquirer
Wed, 30 Sep 2020 12:37 UTC

A streak of bright light, described as a meteor, was sighted in parts of the United States Wednesday morning, according to Twitter users.

The astronomical event was sighted in Cincinnati and in Kentucky. Twitter users reported the sighting before 6:30 a.m.

Many users said it appeared blue or green, then turned orange before it burned out.

"Just happened to look southeast this morning before 6:30 and caught a meteor in the sky. Lit up all red, looked like a contrail fizzling out. Can't remember ever seeing one before - very cool," twitter user Ryan Wichman said.

According to NASA, meteoroids are objects in space that range in size from dust grains to small asteroids. When they enter Earth's atmosphere at high speed and burn up they become meteors. They can become visible fireballs or "shooting stars."

Comment: The American Meteor Society (AMS) has received 264 reports about a meteor fireball seen over DC, IL, IN, KY, MD, MI, NC, NJ, NY, OH, Ohio, Ontario, PA, SC, TN, VA, WI and WV on Wednesday, September 30th 2020 around 10:24 UT.

Update: 1st Oct. 2020

This meteor fireball event has now had 567 reports posted to the AMS website, making it the most widely reported meteor fireball in the US since July 2019.

More videos have been uploaded to the AMS website:

Meteor fireball over Spain on Sep. 25

Meteoroides.net
Fri, 25 Sep 2020 20:06 UTC

This bright meteor overflew the south of Spain on 2020 September 25 at about 23:52 local time (equivalent to 21:52 universal time). It was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from an asteroid that hit the atmosphere at around 39,000 km/h. It began at an altitude of about 80 km over Seville, and ended at a height of around 26 km over Córdoba.

The event was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, which is being conducted by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN). The event was spotted from the meteor-observing stations located at Sevilla, La Sagra (Granada), La Hita (Toledo), Sierra Nevada (Granada), and Calar Alto.

Asteroid the size of a bus flew within just 13,000 miles of the Earth

Stacy Liberatore
Daily Mail, UK
Wed, 23 Sep 2020 16:57 UTC

An asteroid the size of a bus is set to make a close flyby of Earth on September 24.

Dubbed 2020 SW, the object will travel pass some 13,000 miles from Earth, which is closer than moon and weather satellites floating in space.

After the asteroid was spotted by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona on September 18, follow-up observations determined it is 15 to 30 feet wide and will make its closes approach at 7:12am ET.

Experts say 2020 SW is not on an impact trajectory with Earth, but if it were, the space rock would likely break up in the atmosphere and become a fireball before hitting the surface.

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Fire in the Sky

Meteor fireball lights up Mexican skies and rains fire on northern states

Meteor fireball recorded over Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Bigger than an airliner: Huge asteroid hurls towards Earth's orbit

Residents report hearing 'loud explosion' across Nottingham, UK

Ground-shaking, loud boom reported across Escambia County, Florida

Superbolide turns night into day over Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Bright meteor fireball blazes over central Spain

Hundreds report meteor fireball blazing over Eastern US - UPDATE

Meteor fireball over Spain on Sep. 25

Asteroid the size of a bus flew within just 13,000 miles of the Earth

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