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The Dubrovnik Times reports that in Zagreb, there was a strong rumble and tremors. A tremor was felt throughout the city, so at first everybody thought that it was an earthquake.
According to the Aberdeen Astronomical Society "a bright light" was seen in the sky above the Bucksburn area shortly before 6am this morning.
A number of other witnesses, including people from Ellon, Montrose and even Northumberland reported seeing the object.
One eyewitness told the page how they had seen a "single stream that broke up to numerous little flares".
© YouTube/S Paris (screen capture)
On Wednesday, YouTuber S Paris captured an object zooming through the sky on his dashcam at around 5:30 a.m. In the video's description, S Paris believes the object that came down is a meteor.
With the sun still down, the video showcased a clear visual of the meteor flying through the sky.
According to YouTuber, the video was captured on the southeast side of Tucson.
The meteor detection station Calar Alto (CAHA) reported that two large balls of fire were observed shooting across the sky in the early hours of the morning of February 18 and 19.
The first one was detected by the CAHA observation station in Almería, but because of the weather conditions (cloudy night skies), the trajectory could not be calculated nor could more information be collected.
The second fireball, observed on February 19, could just as the first one be observed by the Almería observatory, but also by the observatories in Sierra Nevada (Granada) and Seville.
© YouTube/Meteors (screen capture)
The event was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN), from the meteor-observing stations located at Calar Alto (Almería), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Hita (Toledo), and Sevilla. 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).
The natural phenomenon occurred at 4:35 local time and lasted for about six seconds.
A falling meteor was caught on a CCTV camera in the Segezhsky district of the Russian Republic of Karelia.
The footage shows a meteor falling at a high speed in the skies above a populated area before a bright flash occurs.
The fall of the meteor happened early in the morning and lasted for about six seconds. Eyewitnesses say that the meteor landed with a loud bang.
The footage shows a meteor falling at a high speed in the skies above a populated area before a bright flash occurs.
The fall of the meteor happened early in the morning and lasted for about six seconds. Eyewitnesses say that the meteor landed with a loud bang.
© YouTube/Frankie Lucena (screen capture)
"The sky lit up brightly when the meteor hit," says Lucena. "The flash came from the direction of the Dominican Republic."
Indeed, he continues, "the GOES16 Group Energy Density image shows that it exploded over the Dominican Republic at 07:30 UTC (Feb. 21st):
If you seek an indication that something is terribly wrong with science look no further. In 2012 brave citizen of Miami Cory Boehne noted that just south of the Port of Miami ship channel, less than two miles from downtown Miami Beach in 30′ of water, was the unmistakable signature of a cosmic collision: A multi-ringed impact complex crater with a central peak.
Cool. At best it is an easily accessible opportunity for complex crater research. So much easier than Greenland or the Moon.
Or, at worst, a chance to demonstrate geological forces other than impact are crafty, and conspire to produce "pseudo-craters" in order to fool pajama scientists like the Tusk.
So what do you think was the response from the scientific "community" to these compelling images? Crickets. Not a word.
Despite what appears to be a sincere attempt to bring some attention to the amazing find, and another wonderful effort by astronomer Charles P.T. O'Dale, as far as I can tell, the community of academic and research scientists in Florida and elsewhere could not get up the gas money to take a boat out there.
See if you can find a single published paper.
Yet again we learn the lesson: The closer the subject hits to home, the more verboten it becomes.
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Or, at worst, a chance to demonstrate geological forces other than impact are crafty, and conspire to produce "pseudo-craters" in order to fool pajama scientists like the Tusk.
So what do you think was the response from the scientific "community" to these compelling images? Crickets. Not a word.
Despite what appears to be a sincere attempt to bring some attention to the amazing find, and another wonderful effort by astronomer Charles P.T. O'Dale, as far as I can tell, the community of academic and research scientists in Florida and elsewhere could not get up the gas money to take a boat out there.
See if you can find a single published paper.
Yet again we learn the lesson: The closer the subject hits to home, the more verboten it becomes.
© sunshinevillage
This isn't the first time this month that Albertans caught a fireball exploding across the sky.
Calgarians witnessed a dazzling fireball flying across the sky on Saturday, February 9, leading locals to go on social media to react to this unusual sighting in the sky.
We might have missed this week's astronomical phenomena altogether had it not been for the Jackrabbit camera situated on the ski hill's chairlift.
Comment: The event was also witnessed from across the North Sea in Denmark and the Netherlands according to the American Meteor Society.