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Dublin, Ireland residents spooked as massive mysterious bang 'shakes houses' leaving locals baffled

Darrragh Berry
Dublin Live
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 04:47 UTC
Boom in Dublin, Ireland
© dublinlive.com
Dublin residents have been left spooked after a massive mysterious bang shook houses and woke locals late last night.

Baffled northsiders took to social media to first see if they were imaging what had happened, asking others if they had heard the noise too, before trying to figure out what the colossal clang was.

And Royal Oak, Santry Court and Woodlawn residents are still none the wiser almost 12 hours after the big boom.

The thud had affects on houses in a 2km radius along the M50 in the area with many fearing it may have been coming from the motorway.
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Bright meteor fireball lights up the night sky over Texas

Ben Hooper
UPI
Fri, 20 Nov 2020 12:10 UTC
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A bright meteor illuminated the night sky over southern Texas as part of the anticipated Leonids meteor shower, experts said.

The fireball was caught on camera Thursday night across the Rio Grande Valley, an area of southern Texas and northern Mexico, including at the National Weather Service's Brownsville station.

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Bright meteor fireball blazes over Germany, Czech Republic and Austria


Sott.net
Fri, 20 Nov 2020 08:38 UTC
Meteor fireball over Austria
© AMS/Herbert R.
Meteor fireball over Austria
The American Meteor Society (AMS) has received 34 reports (event 6819-2020) about a meteor fireball seen over Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Oberösterreich, Sachsen, Salzburg, Saxony, Tirol, Upper Austria and Veneto on Thursday, November 19th 2020 around 03:46 UT.

For this event, they received 2 videos and 5 photos.

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Captured on film: Huge meteor fireball's spectacular explosion off the southern coast of Tasmania, Australia

Jackson Ryan
cnet.com
Wed, 18 Nov 2020 12:28 UTC
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An enormous, spectacular fireball blazing a trail across the sky off the southern coast of Tasmania, Australia, has been captured on film.

A livestream camera fitted to the research vessel Investigator, operated by Australia's national science agency CSIRO, spotted the fireball at 9:21 p.m. local time on Nov. 18. The vessel is designed to "look" down, performing mapping of the seafloor and conducting oceanographic studies about 60 miles south of Australia, but it was the meteor that flew by overhead that excited the crew on Wednesday.

"What we saw on reviewing the livestream footage astounded us, the size and brightness of the meteor was incredible," John Hooper, voyage manager onboard the vessel, said in a press release.

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Meteor fireball captured over Illinois and neighbouring states


Sott.net
Thu, 19 Nov 2020 08:15 UTC
AMS observers map (event 6742-2020)
© American Meteor Society (screen capture)
AMS observers map (event 6742-2020)
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 54 reports (event 6742-2020) about a meteor fireball seen over AR, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MI, MO, NE, OH, TN and WI on Wednesday, November 18th 2020 around 11:24 UT.

For this event, they received 2 videos.

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Follow-up on recent NEO objects

Ernesto Guido
Remanzacco Blogspot
Tue, 17 Nov 2020 22:25 UTC
Below you can find a selection of some objects for which we recently made follow-up observations at the "Osservatorio Salvatore di Giacomo, Agerola, ITALY" (MPC code L07; Observers E. Guido, A. Catapano, F. Coccia) while they still were on the NEOCP list. More details about the telescope, the magnitude, number of images & exposition, asteroid speed & PA etc. are on the images. Click on each image for a bigger version. All the processing has been made with TYCHO software by D. Parrott.

2020 VX5 (neocp designation C3WZUQ2) is an Apollo-type asteroid discovered by G96 Mt. Lemmon Survey on November 15, 2020. This asteroid has an estimated size of 55 m - 120 m (H=23.4) and it had a close approach with Earth at about 29 LD (Lunar Distances = ~384,000 kilometers) or 0.074 AU (1 AU = ~150 million kilometers) at 1950 UT on 11 Nov. 2020.
2020 VX5
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Bolide captured over southern Spain


Meteors
Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:16 UTC
Bolide over southern Spain
© YouTube/meteors (screen capture)
On 16 November 2020, at about 3:49 local time, a beautiful and very bright fireball was spotted over the south of Spain. This bolide was generated by a rock from a comet that hit the atmosphere at about 227,000 km/h. The fireball began at an altitude of about 132 km over Andalusia (south of Spain), and ended at a height of around 61 km over the south of Portugal.

This bright meteor was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN) from the meteor-observing stations located at Sevilla, La Hita (Toledo) and Calar Alto (Almería). 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).

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'Loud bang' heard across Dorking and Westcott, UK

Kirstie McCrum and Jamie Phillips
Surrey Live
Mon, 02 Nov 2020 17:28 UTC
Mystery boom (stock)
© myjournalcourier.com
Reports are emerging of a large presence of emergency services in the Dorking area after a "loud bang" was heard by residents.

Witnesses in the area have said that paramedics and police officers are in attendance at an incident in the Westcott area of the town as of around 4pm on Monday (November 2).

However, it is not believed that this is in connection with the noise heard by a number of residents. People have taken to social media to question the source of the noise, with some speculating it may have been a "sonic boom".

Surrey Police has been contacted for more information. We will be providing all the latest updates and information as we receive it in our live blog below.
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Meteor fireball lights up Alabama sky

Maggie Gregg
WVLT
Tue, 03 Nov 2020 17:22 UTC
Fireball over Alabama
© WVLT
There were many reports of a mysterious bright greenish-blue object streaking across the Alabama sky just before 6 p.m. on Sunday. Turns out it was a very bright meteor -- often referred to simply as a fireball.

The fireball wasn't just spotted in Central Alabama; it was seen at multiple locations across Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee.

It was even seen a time or two as far away as Kentucky, Virginia and Florida!

According to reports submitted to the American Meteor Society, it was seen burning up in Earth's atmosphere near Birmingham, Montgomery, Huntsville, Auburn, and Troy just to name a few Alabama cities.


The most concentrated area of reports came in from around Atlanta, Georgia. That's likely due to the amount of people there that could have witnessed it.
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Huge meteor fireball seen over US - 'Almost thought it was a plane crashing'

Sean Martin
Daily Express
Sun, 15 Nov 2020 12:31 UTC
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A huge fireball over the US stunned hundreds of residents across mid-northeast US, with some claiming they "almost thought it was a plane crashing".

A large fireball dazzled onlookers across the US when it entered the atmosphere on November 14. The fireball was so bright some people claimed to be "frightened".

Tens of people swarmed to the International Meteor Organisation (IMO) to report their sighting.

Eric wrote on the IMO: "I've seen shooting stars in the past, but this one was much larger than anything I've seen before.

"It honestly frightened me and my girlfriend."

The meteor can be seen bright in the top right of the image
© Westsidesaint
The meteor can be seen bright in the top right of the image
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