Olivia Logan iamexpat.de Sat, 29 Apr 2023 17:13 UTC
A German family in Schleswig-Holstein has been unlucky enough to have their house hit by a falling meteor. Thankfully, the falling rock was only the size of a tennis ball.
German family house hit by a meteor
A truly unexpected guest has paid a visit to a family's home in Schleswig-Holstein. On Tuesday, an oblong rock about the size of a tennis ball penetrated the roof of the family house in Elmshorn.
According to a report in the local newspaper, the Elmshorner Nachrichten, the meteor weighed about 225 grams and was part of a pair which fell on the town, with the other forming a small crater in a nearby residential area.
Officials were trying to determine if a metallic object that smashed through the roof of a Hopewell Township house Monday was a meteorite.
The oblong, 4-inch-by-6-inch object penetrated the the roof of Old Washington Crossing Pennington Road ranch-style home, then crashed through the ceiling and stopped after it hit the hardwood floor, according to a statement from the Hopewell Township Police Department.
The house was occupied at the time but no injuries were reported, police said.
The department said it has contacted several other agencies to aid in identifying the object and safeguarding the residents.
Western Australia's southern sky lit up early this morning as a fireball entered the earth's atmosphere and streaked across the sky to end south of Rottnest Island in Perth.
Early risers spotted the meteor at 5:03am and it lasted about 15 seconds as it travelled from east to west.
Planet astronomer Dr Hadrien Devillepoix dismissed claims it was space junk and said it was a natural object that entered the atmosphere.
"People would have had a really good show of it," he said.
"It was a very shallow entry, so a very slow, long fireball — basically crossing the entire Wheatbelt."
A blue light was seen shining in the skies of Mexico on Friday evening. The blue light stunned those who saw it. Local residents recorded those moments with their phone cameras. In the statement made by the authorities, it was reported that the blue light was a meteorite.
At around 7:30 p.m. local time on Friday evening, an occasional glowing blue light was observed in residential areas in the northern and western parts of Nuevo Leon state in northern Mexico.
The locals could not observe their amazement at the observed blue light. Many people recorded the footage of the event with their cell phone camera and shared it on social media.
The bright fireball in this video was recorded over Spain on April 23, at 6:10 local time (equivalent to 4:10 universal time). The event was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from Comet 1P/Halley that hit the atmosphere at about 240,000 km/h. The fireball overflew the provinces of Córdoba and Badajoz. It began at an altitude of about 122 km over Villaviciosa de Córdoba (province of Córdoba), moved northwest, and ended at a height of around 84 km over Hinojosa del Valle (province of Badajoz).
This bright meteor was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN) from the meteor-observing stations located at Huelva, La Hita (Toledo), Calar Alto, Sierra Nevada, La Sagra (Granada), Sevilla, and Valencia del Ventoso. The event has been analyzed by the principal investigator of the SMART project: Dr. Jose M. Madiedo, from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC).
Meredith Deliso abcnews.go.com Sat, 22 Apr 2023 12:25 UTC
A loud boom heard across Central Indiana Friday night reportedly shook some homes and left residents wondering what exactly just happened.
There were also reports of a light streaking across the sky and a "possible explosion," the Hamilton County Emergency Management said, as the source of the activity was under investigation.
"It may have been a sonic boom," Hamilton County Emergency Management tweeted Friday night. "Police and fire continue to investigate."
The course of life and labour reminds me of a long journey I once took on the railway. Suddenly, there was a breakdown ahead, and passengers took the event in various ways. Some of them sat still resignedly, and never said a word. Others again, went to sleep. But some of us leaped out of that train, and ran on ahead to clear the road of all obstructions.
- Michael Collins
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