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It was generated by a rock from a comet that hit the atmosphere at about 140,000 km/h. It began at an altitude of about 108 km over the sea, and ended at a height of around 60 km.
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This fireball flew over the provinces of Segovia, Valladolid and Zamora on the night of September 27, at 22:40 local time.
A rock from an asteroid at a speed of about 111 thousand kilometers per hour came into the earth's atmosphere. The ball of fire advanced westward to end south of the province of Zamora.
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A Twitter user from Ludwigsburg near Greifswald managed to photograph it over Greifswalder Bodden according to NDR.de. Some observers reported a greenish glowing ball of light with a tail that broke into three to four parts after three to five seconds.
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Next year, the U.S. space agency plans to spend $150 million on its so-called "planetary defense" programs. Some of the money would be going to develop systems to detect asteroids and comets like the football-field-sized space rock that zipped past the Earth this summer at 55,000 mph. It was only spotted by astronomers 24-hours after it passed by.
This close, passing asteroid was characterized as a "city killer" by Swinburne University astronomy professor Alan Duffy. If it had been on a collision course, it would have crashed into the Earth with more than 30 times the energy of the atomic blast at Hiroshima, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine likened it to the meteor that struck Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013.
Even though NASA missed this relatively small asteroid, the agency is "really good at characterizing, cataloging and tracking objects that are one kilometer or larger, which is the type of object that could damage the Earth permanently, Bridenstine said. But NASA is investing in capabilities to discover these smaller objects.
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Catriona Ross was sitting with her family around a bonfire in Koroit, near Warrnambool, when her son Lachlan noticed the meteor.
"I already had my camera open on my phone because I was taking photos of the bonfire so I zoomed it around," Ross told 7NEWS.com.au.
Ross said the meteor was bright but wasn't travelling as fast as a regular meteor would.
"It was amazing... it was quite clear," Ross said. "The unusual thing was that it was right on sunset."
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Speaking at the Planetary Defense Conference in Washington, D.C., NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine warned that the risk posed by meteor crashes was not being taken seriously.
"This is not about Hollywood, this is not about movies, this is about ultimately protecting the only planet we know right now to host life," he said.
Bridenstine pointed to the meteorite that exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk in 2013, which had "30 times the energy of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima" and injured around 1,500 people. Just 16 hours after the crash, NASA detected an even larger object that approached the earth but did not land on it, he revealed.
Comment: It's so obvious, NASA is saying it outright. But instead trillion$ are wasted on geopolitical power games and social engineering...
On September 17, 2019, The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 19 reports of a meteor flying over New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.
AMS member 'Ari K.' snapped a picture of the fireball as it soared over Maryland:
Another meteor was seen just two days later in New York and was captured on video by 'J. Taddeo':
AMS member 'Ari K.' snapped a picture of the fireball as it soared over Maryland:
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It’s possible that other solar systems are flinging comets into interstellar space, and we might be able to see them in the next few years as technology improves.
It’s possible that other solar systems are flinging comets into interstellar space, and we might be able to see them in the next few years as technology improves.
The first, dubbed 'Oumuamua, was spotted on 19 October 2017.
This one, named 2I/Borisov, was discovered on 30 August 2019 by amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov of Nauchnij, Crimea, using a home-built 65-centimeter telescope.
It was initially thought to be an ordinary comet, says Davide Farnocchia of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, Pasadena, California.
But a week of observations by amateur and professional astronomers revealed that it was on an orbit that must have originated outside the Solar System and is now in the process of slingshotting around the Sun before heading back into interstellar space. (The "2I" in its name means it is "interstellar object number 2.")
Already, it is proving to be quite different from its predecessor. To begin with, it's much larger. 'Oumuamua (now officially called 1I/'Oumuamua) was a cigar-shaped object, only 800 meters long. 2I/Borisov is probably several kilometers in diameter.
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According to eyewitnesses, London has been illuminated by a meteor, with some of them managing to record the dramatic footage.
Comment: Just five days before this meteor sighting, another fireball lit up the skies over Tasmania and Victoria.