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Meteor fireball sighted by 90 observers over Germany

Business Today
Mon, 30 Nov 2020 12:18 UTC

Fireball sighted over Germany

About 90 sightings were notified to the fireball network within a span of some hours, according to Berlin's Technical University.

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.

Meteor fireball 'as bright as full moon' spotted in night sky over Japan - 2nd for the country in 4 days

Kyodo News
Sun, 29 Nov 2020 12:05 UTC

Social media was abuzz Sunday after reports that an object emitting an intense light had been spotted falling from the skies above Japan in the early hours of the morning.

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?):

Meteor fireball captured blazing over Connecticut

Sott.net
Sat, 28 Nov 2020 08:34 UTC

The American Meteor Society (AMS) has received 24 reports (event 7131-2020) about a meteor fireball seen over CT, MA, NJ, NY, PA and RI on Friday, November 27th 2020 around 07:13 UT.

For this event, it received one video.

Spate of 3 meteor fireballs are seen exploding over Brazil

Adry Torres
Daily Mail
Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:56 UTC

Carlos Fernando Jung, the south region director of the Brazilian Meteor Monitoring Network, said the meteor entered the atmosphere at an altitude of 64 miles and lasted 1.05 seconds before it blew up at 58.7 miles above the surface

This is the moment a bright meteor crossed the sky over Brazil and exploded.

The phenomenon was captured on camera by the Heller and Jung Space Observatory early Monday as it entered the Earth's atmosphere.

The center's surveillance system, located in the city of Taquara, recorded the the meteor exploding some 462 miles away near the border between Rio Grande do Sul and Uruguay approximately at 2:31am local time.

Comment: The other 2 fireballs were captured on film over northeast Brazil in the states of Alagoas and Paraíba on November 20:

Loud booming noise rattles Gibraltar, Michigan neighborhoods; source not identified

Jim Kasuba
News-Herald
Tue, 24 Nov 2020 09:48 UTC

A mysterious boom shook, rattled and rolled many residents of Gibraltar early Thursday afternoon.

The resonant sound was first mentioned by a resident who posted a comment on the Gibraltar Life Facebook group page, with numerous people saying they heard and felt it, as well.

Several people said it sounded like thunder, but the sun was shining brightly, with no storm clouds in sight.

One person said it felt like a minor earthquake, but none were reported.

Others surmised that the sound could have resulted from blasting at a nearby quarry. Many residents said the boom shook their entire house.

Three meteor fireballs over Spain on 21 November

Meteoroides.net
Sat, 21 Nov 2020 10:25 UTC

Three bright meteors overflew Spain on November 21. The brightest of them (Event # 1 on video) was spotted at about 2:32 local time (equivalent to 1:32universal time). It was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from Comet Encke that hit the atmosphere at around 101,000 km / h. It began at an altitude of about 105 km over the province of Jaén (Andalusia), and ended at a height of around 52 km.

Previously, other two fireballs were recorded, at1:47 and 2:21local time, respectively (Events # 2 and # 3 on video). The first of these (Event # 2 on video) was generated by a rock from another comet that entered the atmosphere at 202,000 km / h. It began at a height of 108 km over the Mediterranean Sea and ended at an altitude or around 72 km off the coast of the province of Almería (Andalusia).

Finally, the bolide recorded at2:21h (Event # 3 on video) was also produced by a rock from Comet Encke entering the atmosphere at 101,000 km / h. It began at an altitude of around 111 over the province of Ciudad Real, and ended at a height of about 71 km. These events were recorded in the framework of the SMART project, which is being conducted by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN). These meteors were spotted from the meteor-observing stations located at Sevilla, La Sagra (Granada), La Hita (Toledo), Sierra Nevada (Granada), and Calar Alto.

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

Darrragh Berry
Dublin Live
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 04:47 UTC

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.

Bright meteor fireball lights up the night sky over Texas

Ben Hooper
UPI
Fri, 20 Nov 2020 12:10 UTC

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.

Bright meteor fireball blazes over Germany, Czech Republic and Austria

Sott.net
Fri, 20 Nov 2020 08:38 UTC

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.

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

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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ReRan

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alex jenks

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dom38

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dom38

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Fireballs

Meteor fireball sighted by 90 observers over Germany

Meteor fireball 'as bright as full moon' spotted in night sky over Japan - 2nd for the country in 4 days

Meteor fireball captured blazing over Connecticut

Spate of 3 meteor fireballs are seen exploding over Brazil

Loud booming noise rattles Gibraltar, Michigan neighborhoods; source not identified

Three meteor fireballs over Spain on 21 November

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

Bright meteor fireball lights up the night sky over Texas

Bright meteor fireball blazes over Germany, Czech Republic and Austria

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

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