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Meteor lights up sky above Edmonton, Canada

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© Globalnews.ca
Were you lucky enough to see a meteor streaking across the Edmonton sky on Monday evening? If not, the Global Edmonton's SkyTracker camera on top of Manulife Place was and caught the shooting star as it happened.

Reports of a meteor over the capital region started coming in shorting after 5:00 p.m.

The Global Edmonton SkyTracker camera was facing southwest, with the High Level Bridge in the bottom left hand corner of the shot. At 5:08 p.m. a fire ball can be seen for about 45 seconds over the south horizon before it either burned out, or was covered by clouds near the horizon.

Comment: Yes, the Geminid meteor shower is active at present. But it is well worth remembering what can come out of the sky without any warning at all, such as the Chelyabinsk meteor from February 2013:


For more on the very high probability of Earth soon being on the receiving end of a major cometary bombardment, and why, see Laura Knight-Jadczyk's Comets and Catastrophe series: And the books: Comets and the Horns of Moses by Laura Knight-Jadczyk
and Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection: The Secret History of the World - Book 3 by Pierre Lescaudron
and Laura Knight-Jadczyk


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Meteor caught on dashcam over Scotland - 29.11.2015

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© DashcamDundee

Published on Dec 7, 2015

Parked outside waiting for someone I noticed a large bright object travelling towards the ground at speed, it appears blue-ish in colour and is trailing before disappearing behind the houses.

Comment: Other meteor fireballs observed over Ireland and the United Kingdom in November include: There were 29 reports of this event recorded with the American Meteor Society (AMS). This may be the same meteor seen over Scotland on 29.11.2015:




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Taurid fireball filmed over Tenerife, Spain

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Taurid shooting star from the Pico del Teide (Tenerife).


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Meteor fireball filmed over Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Hanukkah evening meteor in the south sky of of Santa Fe, December 6 2015 at 7:34PM.

The meteor comes from the east at about 25 second mark.


I was driving southbound at https://goo.gl/maps/zqjSYkayet32 .

The fireball was brilliant white and the dashcam doesn't do it justice.

The rumble you hear is the sound of a diesel Vanagon.

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Meteor fireball streaks across Brazilian sky - 04.12.2015

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© Bramon - Brazilian Meteor Observation Network
Fireball -- 04/12/2015 - Estação DOG/DF - Paulo Cacella

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For the second month running, a meteor fireball is caught on live TV, this time over Providence, Rhode Island

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It was more a matter of luck than anything else, but it was an amazing 1-2 seconds caught live on television Sunday morning at about 8:17 a.m. A fireball raced across the deep blue sky over Providence, and I watched it as it happened. Look just above the smoke stack about 3 seconds into the video.

To see the fireball, enlarge the video to fill your screen.

Our Hurricane Barrier Cam was pointed to the west. For perspective, the I-Way Bridge is on the right, Rhode Island and Hasbro Children's Hospitals are in the center of the screen. I circled the streak of light in red below. You can see it behind the exhaust from the smoke stack. In the inset, you can see the pieces of the burning debris that fell off of the object.


Comment: 10 November 2015: Fireball falls behind TV reporter during liveshot in Oklahoma City


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Bright meteor over Spain - A meteorite said to have fallen in the Mediterranean Sea

meteorite Mediterranean
© SMART Project (screenshot)
Fireball recorded on 5 Dec. 2015 at 21:43 UT in the framework of the SMART Project (www.meteoroides.net). The bolide penetrated the atmosphere till an ending height of about 18 km. A small fraction of the meteoroid survived, and the resulting meteorite fell into the Mediterranean Sea.


Comment: Just a few days ago, another bright bolide appeared over Barcelona, Spain.


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Meteor captured blazing through night sky over Cheltenham, UK

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© Allan Carter
Did you see a meteor in the skies above Cheltenham last night?

They were caught on camera by Allan Carter who posted the images on twitter this morning.

He wrote: "Caught this bright meteor breaking through the clouds on two cameras to the north East over Cheltenham area."
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© Allan Carter

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Bright bolide appears over Barcelona, Spain

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A very bright bolide appeared on Nov. 28th, 2015 at 19h07m08s TUC was recorded by Folgueroles SPMN station operated by Pep Pujols (Agrupació Astronòmica d'Osona). Trajectory reconstruction from other 4 stations was made by Dr. J.M. Trigo-Rodriguez (CSIC-IEEC) giving clues on the fragile nature of the meteoroid producing this bright fireball that disrupted abruptly at a height of 80 km. More details in Dec. 4th, 2015 IEEC press release


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Exploding meteor: Bright bolide lights up night sky over Pacific Northwest

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© NASA , The ProvinceA bolide, or exploding meteor, similar to this one was spotted in the night sky over the Lower Mainland and Western Washington on Friday night.
Tina Robertson was just trying to catch a stray cat out in front of her property when she heard it.

"It freaked me right out," she said.

Then she looked up to see a "big ball of fire."

"It was moving like hell," she said. "It was big, but not as big as that one in Russia."

What she and other witnesses as far afield as Seattle and Nanaimo seem to have seen around 6:50 p.m. Friday night was a type of meteor known as a bolide. Bolides are as bright as a full moon; they're a meteor that doesn't just burn up as it travels through the atmosphere, it explodes.

(Hat tip to Seattle Twitter user Reb Roush for pointing us all to the term.)

Robertson's partner Wilf Krickhan was loading up fire wood in a bobcat behind the house when he saw the blue-green bolide flash across the sky.

"It had an orange streak behind it," he said.

The couple live on a farm about 25 kilometres up Chilliwack Lake Road. From their vantage point, it looked like the meteor flashed out up the slopes of Mount McGuire, in direction of Vedder Road and the site of the former CFB Chilliwack.

Friday was the start of the Geminid meteor shower, so keep your eyes peeled at the sky for the next two weeks. The peak period will be on Dec. 13 and 14.

Comment: The American Meteor Society (AMS) have received 33 reports relating to this event. There has been an upsurge in fireball activity recently. See the SOTT Worldview graph for fireball sightings this year: