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Retired Georgia professor says meteor may have caused unexplained boom that shook Athens

Wayne Ford
Online Athens
Wed, 31 May 2017 16:07 UTC
Meteor (stock image)
© SkyandTelescope.com, Rick Scott and Joe Orman/Associated Press
The loud unexplained sound that rattled homes and unnerved people across the Athens area on Saturday may have been a sonic boom created by a meteor, a retired University of Georgia professor said Wednesday.

"I think if it wasn't the military, it may well have been a meteor, which may have been natural or a piece of space junk returning to Earth," said Michael Covington, an artificial intelligence expert who's been involved in astronomy for 50 years.

Because the boom was deafening across a wide area, a ground-based explosion could be ruled out as the cause, according to Covington.

"It seemed to be loud at a bunch of different places from the Athens Country Club to the Epps Bride Parkway area" in a north-to-south direction, he said.

Covington heard rattling in his Athens home at 1:26 p.m. Saturday.
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Bright meteor fireball observed over England and N.W. France


Sott.net
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 16:58 UTC
UK meteor fireball 010617
© AMS/google maps (screen capture)
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 74 reports about a meteor fireball seen over England, Bretagne, Saint Andrew, Torteval, Saint Peter Port, Vale, Saint-Sauveur, Wales, Hauts-de-France and St Martin on Thursday, June 1st 2017 around 22:39 UT.

It was captured by UK Meteor Network's Wilcot station (see video below).

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Meteor fireball filmed over Buffalo, New York


wgrz.com
Wed, 31 May 2017 08:26 UTC
Weather cam catches meteor over downtown Buffalo

Weather cam catches meteor over downtown Buffalo
You never know what you are going to see in the wee hours of the morning on Daybreak, and this morning, while taking a live picture from our Buffalo weather camera, we caught a meteor falling on live television.

Storm Team 2 Chief Meteorologist Patrick Hammer says the meteor was probably the size of a baseball that burned up in the atmosphere. In order for it to be caught on camera, it is likely that it was also much brighter and more brilliant to the naked eye.

See video footage here
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Meteor fireball filmed over Asiago, Italy

Meteor Experiment Asiago UniPd DFA
You Tube
Wed, 31 May 2017 08:59 UTC
Fireball - stock image

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Fireball from Cima Ekar, Asiago at 2017 05 30 23 09 23

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Mystery remains over boom loud enough to rattle houses in Bay of Islands, New Zealand

Peter de Graaf
New Zealand Herald
Thu, 01 Jun 2017 17:02 UTC
Could the mystery boom have been caused by a meteor, like this one recorded by a dashcam in Portland, in the United States? PHOTO / FILE

Could the mystery boom have been caused by a meteor, like this one recorded by a dashcam in Portland, in the United States? PHOTO / FILE
A loud boom which shook houses and alarmed pets in the Bay of Islands is likely to remain a mystery, with a meteor a possible explanation.

Whatever it was, it was strong enough to be picked up by a seismograph used to monitor earthquakes but almost certainly came from the sky.

Residents in Oromahoe, Ohaeawai, Puketona, Kawakawa and Opua reported hearing what sounded like a loud explosion about 6.15pm on Sunday. Others reported a "blinding flash" around the same time.

Serena Jenkins, who lives at Oromahoe, said it was loud enough to shake her home.

"It was amazing. It felt like something had crashed into our house. We went outside straight away but we couldn't see anything."
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Rare daytime meteor photographed at Namadgi National Park, Australia


The Canberra Times
Tue, 30 May 2017 05:42 UTC
rare daytime meteor over Australia
© Ari Rex
Photographer Ari Rex snapped this meteor hurtling past Earth while taking pictures in Namadgi National Park.
It was an uncanny case of right time and right place when photographer Ari Rex snapped this streaking ball of light at the Namadgi National Park.

Mr Rex was teaching a photography workshop at the Orroral Homestead when he unexpectedly captured a meteor hurtling past Earth.

"Last Friday, during the new moon, I went to Namadgi National Park to teach an advanced Milky Way photography workshop," he said.

"It's very dark out there when there is no moon so it makes it perfect for photographing the Milky Way, especially now in winter."

Although he expected to snap some stellar shots of the twilight sky, he was completely surprised by the photos when he looked back at them.

"I was lucky enough to capture this meteor in my frame. This is a rare phenomenon," he said.

"Usually you see them at night. But you typically never see them during the day.

"According to some quick calculations I did - considering the shutter speed of the shot - I found that the meteor was travelling at least 60,000 kilometres per hour."
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Meteor fireball spotted in New Territories, Hong Kong


Ejinsight
Mon, 29 May 2017 18:17 UTC
The phenomenon was captured by a camera from the Hong Kong Space Museum’s Sai Kung iObservatory (left). The fireball races across the night sky (right).
© Hong Kong Space Museum, Facebook/Ng Yuen
The phenomenon was captured by a camera from the Hong Kong Space Museum’s Sai Kung iObservatory (left). The fireball races across the night sky (right).
A fireball was seen streaking over Hong Kong skies on Saturday night, with multiple Facebook posts suggesting that the 'bolide' meteor was seen by netizens in Yuen Long, Tai Po and Sheung Shui.

Some netizens said they mistook the bright flying object emitting green light for an airplane or a drone. Others said it could have been a UFO (unidentified flying object), Headline Daily reports.

A video clip from a dash cam shows the fireball streaking across the sky from left to right at a moderate speed for about five seconds.

The Hong Kong Observatory later confirmed on its Facebook page that the phenomenon was captured by a camera from the Hong Kong Space Museum's Sai Kung iObservatory at 10:42 p.m.

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Meteor fireball reported over England and Wales


Sott.net
Sun, 28 May 2017 07:43 UTC
meteor fireball over England
© IMO (screen capture)
Heat map of 1768-2017 Fireball event
The UK Meteor Network (UKMON) has received over 20 reports and many messages on social media of a meteor fireball on 27th May 2017 over England and Wales just after 10PM BST. It was captured by Exeter and Wilcot stations (see images below).

Exeter meteor fireball
© UKMON
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Thunderbolts Space News: Electric meteors becoming accepted science

Thunderbolts Project
YouTube
Tue, 23 May 2017 05:51 UTC
Thunderbolts Project
© YouTube/Thunderbolts Project (screen capture)
A new scientific study, published in the Geophysical Research Letters, argues that the sounds associated with some meteor sightings are the products of electrical activity. In this episode, we explore the significance of this breakthrough and elaborate the Electric Universe predictions and explanations for meteoritic phenomena.

Comment: For further information read Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.

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Meteor fireball streaks across sky over Texas

Calily Bien
kxan.com
Fri, 19 May 2017 15:36 UTC
fireball
For the past two years, Aaron Olmsted has had a dash camera mounted in his car. He says he has it because he drives a quick car and the camera comes in handy in certain situations.

But early Friday morning was the first time his camera ever captured a fireball streak across the sky in Bastrop. Olmsted and his wife were driving back to their Bastrop home from the Austin airport around midnight when they noticed the bright light.

"We both spotted it," says Olmstead. "My wife was driving, and I was in the passenger seat and we both saw it and we were both amazed."

The couple said they're not sure if anyone else saw what they saw because it was late and there weren't that many people driving on State Highway 71 in Bastrop at the time.

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