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Meteor fireball over California on October 18

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We received 9 reports about a fireball seen over CA and OR on Wednesday, October 18th 2023 around 11:35 UT.

For this event, we received one video.


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Meteor fireball over Connecticut and nearby states on October 13

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We received 79 reports about a fireball seen over CT, DC, DE, MA, MD, NH, NJ, NY, Ontario, PA, Québec, VA and WV on Friday, October 13th 2023 around 10:22 UT.

For this event, we received one video and one photo.


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Explosive meteor streaked across the sky of 3 states in the northeast region of Brazil

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The Clima ao Vivo and Bramon cameras recorded an explosive meteor during the night of this Monday (02), which streaked across the sky of three northeastern states.


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Shock fractures in quartz and the Younger Dryas impact at Abu Hureyra (near Gobekli Tepe)

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Researchers associated with the comet research group have just published four new papers on micro-fractures in quartz, and how they can be used to diagnose cosmic impacts. The first paper is a detailed study linking shocked quartz to airbursts. The next three below apply this new understanding to the Younger Dryas impact specifically at Abu Hureyra, which is about 100 miles south of Gobekli Tepe.

The journal is also new - "Airbursts and cratering impacts". It was set up so that papers rejected by the "impact mafia" can still be fairly reviewed and published. The impact mafia is a determined group of researchers who are expert in the more well-established science of large ground impacts where the existence of a large crater makes the diagnosis of an impact obvious. By requiring the same kind of evidence for the diagnosis of all cosmic impacts, they are effectively preventing the diagnosis of lower-energy impact events, for example small ground impacts or large airbursts that significantly affect the ground, i.e. precisely the kind of impacts central to the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis. Inevitably, this leads to under-reporting of these smaller impact events. Parallels with the "Clovis first mafia" are apt.

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Meteor fireball over New York and other states on October 1

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We received 7 reports about a fireball seen over NY, Ontario, PA and Québec on Sunday, October 1st 2023 around 03:53 UT.

For this event, we received one video.


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Meteor fireball over Alabama and other states on September 26

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We received 45 reports about a fireball seen over AL, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, SC and TN on Tuesday, September 26th 2023 around 10:27 UT.

For this event, we received 2 videos.


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Meteor fireball over France, UK and the Netherlands on September 24

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We received 10 reports about a fireball seen over Île-de-France, Bretagne, England, Normandie and Zuid-Holland on Sunday, September 24th 2023 around 00:44 UT.

For this event, we received one video and 2 photos.


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Meteor fireball over Connecticut and adjacent states on September 22

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We received 26 reports about a fireball seen over CT, MA, NH, NY, RI and VT on Friday, September 22nd 2023 around 07:01 UT.

For this event, we received 4 videos and 3 photos.


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Meteor fireball over Indiana and other states on September 22

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We received 65 reports about a fireball seen over IL, IN, KY, MO, OH and TN on Friday, September 22nd 2023 around 03:34 UT.

For this event, we received 3 videos.


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NASA predicts large asteroid impact could be in Earth's future

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© NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/CSA/York/MDA via APThis undated image made available by NASA shows the asteroid Bennu from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. On Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, scientists said they have a better handle on asteroid Bennu’s whereabouts for the next 200 years. The bad news is that the space rock has a slightly greater chance of clobbering Earth than previously thought. But don’t be alarmed: Scientists reported that the odds are still quite low that Bennu will hit us in the next century.
NASA scientists are predicting a chance that asteroid Bennu will strike Earth in the future, potentially affecting an area the size of Texas.

Bennu is a Near-Earth Object (NEO) that passes by the planet roughly every six years, and experts have been watching it since it was discovered in September 1999.

According to scientists, Bennu has a chance to pass through what they call a "gravity keyhole," which would send it on a collision course with Earth in the year 2182.

A new paper from the OSIRIS-REx science team predicts Bennu has a 0.037% chance (1 in 2,700) of hitting Earth; this will largely depend on another flyby. In 2135, Bennu will zoom past Earth just close enough that our planet's gravitational pull could affect it in just the right way to put it on a path to hit us on Sept. 24, 2182 — almost 159 years to the day from this writing.