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Observers map for event 7648-2020
Observers map for event 7648-2020
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Fireballs
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A mysterious flaming rock in the sky has had people in Morecambe scratching their heads.
What appeared to be a "big rock on fire" was seen over the town at around 8.15am on Monday (December 7).
Two 11-year-old boys, Thomas Wilson and Jay Grounds, saw the strange object while walking to school and managed to take a picture of it:
Jay's mum, Beth, said: "My son and his friend Thomas saw what the described as a big rock on fire in the sky this morning on their way to school and Thomas got this picture of it. Did anyone else see it around 8.15am?"
She added that the boys said that it disappeared from view after a few moments.
What appeared to be a "big rock on fire" was seen over the town at around 8.15am on Monday (December 7).
Two 11-year-old boys, Thomas Wilson and Jay Grounds, saw the strange object while walking to school and managed to take a picture of it:
© Thomas Wilson and Jay Grounds
She added that the boys said that it disappeared from view after a few moments.
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Nobody seems to know what the noise was, which seemingly took place at around 12.22am (Sunday December 6).
One person on Twitter said: "Anyone in Bath UK hear that? MASSIVE boom???"
To which someone replied: "Yeah, what was it?"
When asked what kind of noise it was, the witness said: "A really loud concussive bang. Felt it as well as heard it. It echoed. Nothing like a firework or a car back firing."
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Here is a map of reported fireball sightings around the Northeast Wednesday afternoon.
According to the American Meteor Society, the sound heard across Central New York came at the same time witnesses reported seeing a meteor streaking across the sky in other areas not under dense cloud cover.
"We currently have 41 reports of this fireball." Robert Lunsford of the American Meteor Society told us. "It seems that central New York and northern Pennsylvania had cloudy skies and therefore did not see the fireball. If skies had been clear I'm certain that the trajectory would shift toward central NY, where the reports of sounds are numerous."
The bolide was generated by a rock from a comet that hit the atmosphere at about 147,000 km / h. It began at an altitude of about 112 km over the sea, and ended at a height of around 72 km after traveling about 77 km in the Earth's atmosphere.
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 Sagra (Granada), La Hita (Toledo), and Seville.
Around noon, a number of GTA residents reported seeing a fireball trail across the sky while others said they saw a large flash of nearly blinding light.
A camera on the CN Tower captured a split-second view of the flash of light across the Toronto skyline.
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Village of Lumby
Village of Lumby
And so far, nobody seems to know what caused it.
Rob Blake said the noise sounded like a loud explosion, in a post on the Around the Block Lumby Facebook page around 12:10 p.m. Nov. 27.
"It was like a volcano erupted," Blake said.
"Did anyone just hear that big boom, Creighton Valley Rd," his post reads. Since then, the post has racked up more than 125 comments, with people reporting they heard the sound from various locations in the area.
Fireball sighted over Germany
Western Germany on Saturday witnessed a mysterious fireball darting through its night sky, as per the statement of some astronomers.
The bright streak caused by the fireball lasted about 5 to 7 seconds, ending in a jade (forest green) colour and diverging into two smaller blips, a witness at Siegen near Bonn had conveyed to the "fireball network." The said network is run by Berlin's Technical University (TU) and the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
"Most probably it was an asteroid fragment that had entered the atmosphere," said DLR fireball expert Dieter Heinlein on Sunday, linking the position of the spectacle the evening before to be over Kassel city in central Germany.
The fireball, believed to be a bolide -- a type of shooting star often compared to a full moon for its brightness -- could be seen clearly from parts of western and central Japan.
A man in his 20s living in Gifu Prefecture was able to capture the shooting star on camera as it momentarily lit up the sky at around 1:35 a.m. Sunday morning.
"It made a rumbling noise," one Twitter user wrote, while another said, "The sky went totally bright."
Comment: The other fireball was filmed on November 25 (26?):
Comment: See also: Falling meteor causes fireball, flash of light over parts of Ontario