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Bright greenish-blue meteor fireball explodes over Puerto Rico

kevinizooropa
YouTube
Wed, 27 Jul 2016 05:53 UTC

A greenish bright meteor was visible from several areas of the island on the night of July 26, 2016, reported the Caribbean Astronomical Society (SAC). The educational institution conducted an analysis suggesting it was a meteor Alfa Capricornids, a slight meteor shower associated with comet debris 169P / NEAT.

Although Capricornids Alfa is not a meteor shower well known and is not intense, it can produce bright meteor. A curious fact is that gradually the area of waste comet 169P / NEAT will be in the future closer to the path where the Earth orbits the sun. Both, estimated could produce "meteor storms", ie showers very intense meteor from the year 2220 so our distant descendants will be those who will enjoy such intense spectacle of nature.

Meanwhile, we can make do with seeing a few that will be visible in the next few nights. On these nights some related to light rain and Alfa Delta Aquarid meteors will be Capricornids while in mid-August will be the Perseids, which is anticipated this could be more active than usual year, the SAC said.

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Fireball spotted over much of Western and Northern California

KCRA
Thu, 28 Jul 2016 05:49 UTC

A streak of light was seen over the eastern sky of Northern California Wednesday night. The light was also seen over Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and Reno.It is unclear what caused the light, which was first spotted around 9:45 p.m.

According to NASA, the Delta Aquarids meteor shower is expected to peak Thursday and Friday. It is also possible the streak was caused by space junk. NORAD and U.S. Strategic Command said they did not know what the streak of light was.

No other details were available.

Comment: Electrically charged meteors can travel very slowly and tend to disintegrate and shed as they do.

Meteor fireball seen flying through Phoenix skies

Catherine Holland
AZ Family
Fri, 22 Jul 2016 20:00 UTC

Valley residents have seen their share of unusual lights in the sky over the years, and it happened again Thursday night. It happened just after 9 p.m. Viewer Robert Northrop posted video of the odd light on his Facebook page.

While the light is nothing like the bright meteor that was seen -- and heard -- all over the state, it's definitely something.

What kind of something we do not know yet but check out the video. The light is small and fast so we highlighted it to make it easier for you to see.

You can see the light enter the top of the frame left of center. It zips down on a diagonal, briefly disappearing and then flicking once more before vanishing behind the light.

Blue meteor fireball lights up the sky over Cork, Ireland

Joyce Fegan
Irish Examiner.
Sat, 23 Jul 2016 16:21 UTC

File photo of meteor

At midnight on Thursday, while most of Cork was tucked up in bed, bright flashes of light were turning the sky overhead blue.

"We think it might have been a random fireball," David Moore, editor of Astronomy Ireland magazine, told the Irish Examiner.

"A fireball is just a piece of material burning up in the earth's atmosphere, it's just a very bright shooting star," he added.

Mr Moore said that if anyone in the south west of Ireland saw the flashes of blue light, to visit Astronomy.ie and click on the link 'Report a Fireball.'

Just saw the whole #sky light up looking North from #Cork Like #lightning only none on radar?? What gives?? #Meteor? #Fireball? #Explosion?

— Darren Forde (@darrenforde) July 21, 2016

Comment: The skies certainly seem to heating up lately, the above is the 7th fireball report within the last 5 days:

Meteor fireball 'brighter than Venus' seen in Osaka, Japan

Satoshi Uehara
Facebook
Thu, 21 Jul 2016 01:03 UTC

At 3 this morning, 25 minutes, 50 seconds of fireball.
- 5.3, etc. It was brighter than Venus around, but if the dark shadows I think I can.

Comment: Multiple sightings of a meteor fireball over Japan

Multiple explosions from meteor fireball shake buildings in General Roca, Argentina

Global Post
Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:50 UTC

Residents of a city in southern Argentina got a scare when a series of powerful explosions shook homes and buildings Wednesday, but the cause turned out to be a natural wonder: a meteor disintegrating overhead.

It was an ordinary Wednesday afternoon in General Roca, a city of 85,000 people, when suddenly a series of loud blasts caused buildings to shake and windows to rattle. "Everything trembled," said Martin Soria, the local mayor.

Police, firefighters and emergency workers rushed to the scene, but found no evidence of a bomb, earthquake or calamity.

Finally, scientists pieced together the reason: A meteor had entered the Earth's atmosphere some 10,000 meters (33,000 feet) overhead, traveling at 2,400 kilometers (1,500 miles) per hour.

"It took everyone by surprise because it entered the atmosphere over an inhabited area. If it had fallen over the desert, the sea, Antarctica, we would never have known," said astronomer Roberto Figueroa, head of the nearby Neuquen observatory. He estimated the meteor measured about 12 meters in diameter before breaking into three fragments.

Giant meteor fireball seen over Calabria, Sicily and Malta

Malta Today
Fri, 22 Jul 2016 17:50 UTC

File photo of meteor

A meteor passing over Calabria, Sicily and Malta in the Mediterranean was witnessed by skygazers yesterday at 11pm, as the celestial object ploughed through the summer night sky towards the southeast.

A full moon illuminated the field through which the 'white ball of fire', as some witnesses described it, tore across: the sighting comes ahead of the Delta Aquarids shower which Science Alert says will be most visible in the southern hemisphere.

While the peak for the shower will be on July 28 and 29, the display will continue until around August 23, overlapping with the Perseid shower, which occurs in mid-August.

Catching a glimpse of the Delta Aquarids will very much depend on your location, though the best time to watch the sky for these shooting stars will be around midnight.

Because meteors can be quite faint, it is best to look out for them in a dark sky, free of moonlight and artificial lights.

Bright meteor fireball filmed over Odessa, Ukraine

asteroid457
You Tube
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 13:26 UTC

Bright fireball over Odessa, July 20, 2016 filmed by amateur astronomy club Odessa city, Ukraine.

Huge fireball seen across North Western Australia

Ben Collins
ABC Kimberley
Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:50 UTC

People across the Kimberley have reported seeing a bright fireball streak across the sky, inspiring awe and some fear.

"It was scary, because it came from the airport direction, and then we realised that it was probably space junk or a meteor," talkback caller Monica from Broome told ABC Radio.

"We spend a lot of nights with the kids lying out on trampolines watching shooting stars, but I've never seen anything like that."

The fireball was seen across a wide area of north western Australia just before 7pm on Tuesday.

Camped by the Fitzroy River, Cybil called ABC Radio to describe the awe-inspiring sight.

"Huge, big; it was the brightest thing I've ever seen. It was huge, white, massive. I've never seen anything so big in the sky," she said

About 130km south of Broome, Randal was camped on a cliff overlooking the ocean.

"It just seemed to come right up out of the sea, and then shot right across the Barn Hill camping area where we are," he said.

"My wife was sitting opposite me and she spun around, and we watched it disappear over inland somewhere.

"It was just so, so bright. We were wondering whether one of those missiles had come down from North Korea.

"We've seen shooting stars before, but this just outdid anything."

Great ball of fire over New Zealand

Margot Taylor
Otago Times
Tue, 19 Jul 2016 18:23 UTC

A fireball that lit up southern skies last night was not a meteor, but something much rarer, a leading astronomer says.

Minutes after the bright orange ball flashed across the sky about 6.30pm, hundreds of people from Dunedin to Nelson took to social media to report having seen it.

Former resident superintendent of Canterbury University's Mt John Observatory Alan Gilmore said the ball of fire had all of the characteristics of a re-entry of debris from a spacecraft, or piece of equipment which had been orbiting Earth.

"It is not a meteor, I'm certain of that. It took too long to go across the sky.''

Comment: Actually, electrically charged meteors CAN travel very slowly. AND, disintegration - shedding - is quite common.

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Bright greenish-blue meteor fireball explodes over Puerto Rico

Fireball spotted over much of Western and Northern California

Meteor fireball seen flying through Phoenix skies

Blue meteor fireball lights up the sky over Cork, Ireland

Meteor fireball 'brighter than Venus' seen in Osaka, Japan

Multiple explosions from meteor fireball shake buildings in General Roca, Argentina

Giant meteor fireball seen over Calabria, Sicily and Malta

Bright meteor fireball filmed over Odessa, Ukraine

Huge fireball seen across North Western Australia

Great ball of fire over New Zealand

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