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Bright meteor fireball explodes over Nuevo León, Mexico

A bright meteor was observed over Santiago, Monterrey, and several other municipalities in Nuevo León, Mexico, at approximately 08:13 UTC (02:13 local time) on June 15, 2025. The event lasted around 10 seconds and was widely reported across Nuevo León and Tamaulipas.

Bright fireball over Mexico on June 15, 2025.
© Nuevo Leon Civil Protection ServiceBright fireball over Mexico on June 15, 2025.
A bright fireball was observed over Santiago and several municipalities in Nuevo León, northeastern Mexico, at approximately 02:00 local time on June 15. Many residents reported a sonic boom following the visual phenomenon.

The object was captured in numerous eyewitness videos and was also visible from neighboring states, including Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and parts of southern Texas, United States.

Local and national media outlets have reported widespread observation of the meteor, with users on social media platforms posting videos and images of the bright trail as it moved across the night sky.

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Stunning meteor fireball over southern Spain (Jun.13)

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This stunning bolide was spotted from Spain on June 13, at 4:29 local time (equivalent to 2:29 universal time). It was almost as bright as the full Moon. The event was generated by a rock (a meteoroid) from a comet that hit the atmosphere at about 87,000 km/h. The fireball overflew the province of Jaén (southern Spain). It began at an altitude of about 106 km over the locality of Aulabar (province of Jaén), moved northeast, and ended at a height of around 63 km over the locality of Coto-Rios (province of Jaén).

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 Huelva, La Hita (Toledo), Calar Alto, Sierra Nevada, La Sagra (Granada), Sevilla, and Otura (Granada). 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). Its code in the SWEMN database is: SWEMN20250613_022920.


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Meteor fireball over India on June 9

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We received 7 reports about a fireball seen over Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra on Monday, June 9th 2025 around 16:55 UT.

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


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Meteor fireball over Washington, Oregon and British Columbia on June 7

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We received 91 reports about a fireball seen over British Columbia, OR, WA and Washington on Saturday, June 7th 2025 around 04:59 UT.

For this event, we received 2 videos and one photo.


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Meteor fireball flashes through skies in Sydney as Aurora Australis seen across southern New South Wales, Australia on June 1

Footage from Mount Riverview shows the object flashing green before breaking into smaller pieces.
© Karisha DaviesFootage from Mount Riverview shows the object flashing green before breaking into smaller pieces.
A bright flash of light that briefly lit up the Sydney sky on Sunday night was not a rogue Vivid installation but is believed to have been a meteor.

Sydney resident Tom McCallister said he was waiting at traffic lights about 6pm when he saw the light appear in the sky.

"It travelled right across in front of us and glowed a bright green before it broke up and faded," Mr McCallister said.

"I was luckily on the ball and had my phone to hand to quickly capture the last few seconds of its flight."

A meteor differs from space debris, and is described by the Bureau of Meteorology as a phenomenon occurring when rocks enter Earth's atmosphere and the high friction causes a streak of light to appear in the sky.

In a video taken in Mount Riverview by resident Karisha Davies, the object can be seen flashing green before breaking into smaller pieces.


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Meteor fireball streaks through aurora-filled skies over Canada on June 3

A purple and blue aurora borealis is seen, combined with the bright contrail of a meteor in the skies above Canada.
© Andres U.A purple and blue aurora borealis is seen, combined with the bright contrail of a meteor in the skies above Canada.
Spectators were already out capturing the stunning aurora display when a blazing meteor sped past.

What is it?

At 5:57 a.m. local time skywatchers around Montréal, Canada and parts of the northeastern U.S. found themselves watching the brilliant streak of a bright meteor, also called a fireball, zoom across the sky.

The aurora borealis, or "the northern lights" happen when charged particles ejected from the sun interact with Earth's atmosphere. These particles are shuttled to our planet's north and south poles by Earth's magnetic field. There, the particles excite gas and molecules in Earth's atmosphere, creating various colors depending on which gas is in the atmosphere.

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Major Younger Dryas impact evidence discovered in Louisiana: Shallow airburst crater identified

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A stunning new scientific paper published today in Airbursts and Cratering Impacts provides some of the most compelling evidence yet for a Younger Dryas Boundary (YDB) impact structure — this time in Louisiana.

The study, titled "Evidence of a 12,800-year-old Shallow Airburst Depression in Louisiana with Large Deposits of Shocked Quartz and Melted Materials", is a tour de force by 25 authors, including well-known names in the field such as James Kennett, Allen West, Christopher Moore, Malcolm LeCompte, and Marc Young — both of whom will be presenting this groundbreaking research live at Cosmic Summit 2025.

The paper reports the discovery of an anomalous 300-meter-long depression east of Perkins, Louisiana, filled with high concentrations of impact proxies: shocked quartz, meltglass, microspherules, carbon spherules, and metallic flakes. Most remarkably, the authors argue the site represents a shallow "touch-down" airburst craterpotentially North America's first documented YDB-age impact feature.

🔬 What They Found
  • Shocked Quartz: Glass-filled planar fractures and deformation features — classic cosmic impact indicators.
  • Hundreds of Billions of Microspherules: Found in situ within sediments dating to ~12,800 years BP.
  • Over a Ton of Meltglass: Formed at temperatures exceeding 2200°C; includes melted zircon, kaolinite, and quartz.
  • Carbon-Rich Spherules: Enriched in iridium, platinum, and osmium — elements associated with cosmic bodies.
  • Oxygen-Depleted Metallic Flakes: Rare forms of native iron and wüstite common in extraterrestrial materials.
Dating methods included both radiocarbon and argon-argon analyses, pinpointing the event to the Younger Dryas Boundary: 12,835-12,735 cal BP.

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Meteor fireball falls during the day in several states of Mexico on May 31 [Update: Calculated total impact energy 1 kt of TNT]

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The passage of a suspected meteorite disrupted the tranquility of the afternoon of Saturday, May 31, leaving hundreds of residents breathless in several states in central Mexico.

According to the San Luis Potosí State Civil Protection Coordination, the sighting was accompanied by vibrations in structures, which generated a wave of citizen reports.

Several municipalities, such as Tamuín, Tamasopo, Tamazunchale and Ciudad Valles, felt the tremor after the unidentified object passed by.

The agency reported that it consulted NASA's Planetary Defense platform , which specializes in monitoring near-Earth objects, which confirmed that five asteroids recently entered Earth orbit.

One of them, identified as 2025 KS8 , is the closest and, according to estimates, could be leaving visible debris in its wake which would explain the bright fireball seen in the sky.


Comment: From the CNEOS list [Link]
2025-05-31 23:06:33 UTC Locations 21.1N 98.8W Velocity: 17.8 km/s Calculated Total Impact Energy 1kt TNT.

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Meteor fireball over Holland and 2 other countries on June 2

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We received 26 reports about a fireball seen over Friesland, Groningen, Hessen, Limburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Région wallonne, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Vlaanderen, Waals Gewest and Zuid-Holland on Monday, June 2nd 2025 around 22:19 UT.

For this event, we received one video.


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Meteor fireball over California and 2 other states on May 31

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We received 8 reports about a fireball seen over Arizona, CA and NV on Saturday, May 31st 2025 around 04:48 UT.

For this event, we received one video.