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© P. Jenniskens / SETI InstituteThe meteoroid stream of long-period comet Thatcher from CAMS data. Outer blue ellipse is the orbit of Neptune.
"This creates a situational awareness for potentially hazardous comets that were last near-Earth orbit as far back as 2,000 BC," said meteor astronomer and lead author Peter Jenniskens of the SETI Institute.
Jenniskens is the lead of the Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance (CAMS) project, which observes and triangulates the visible meteors in the night sky using low- light video security cameras to measure their trajectory and orbit. There are CAMS networks now in nine countries, led by co-authors on the paper.
In recent years, new networks in Australia, Chile and Namibia significantly increased the number of triangulated meteors. The addition of these networks resulted in a better and more complete picture of the meteor showers in the night sky.
"Until recently, we only knew five long-period comets to be parent bodies to one of our meteor showers," said Jenniskens, "but now we identified nine more, and perhaps as many as 15."
© YouTube/American Meteor Society (screen capture)
For this event, the AMS received 2 videos.
One powerful tool in that impact hunting toolkit is the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). It has a variety of instruments on it that make it possible to both track down areas of interest and then follow up with high resolution imagery, incluidng HiRISE, the camera that took the picture above. That is exactly what happened with a new crater that the satellite noticed on one of its flybys.
Live Weather Cameras recorded a meteor during the morning of this Monday (17th) in Bahia. Check the locations below:
- Andaraí / BA - Ibsol Telecom
- Ibiquera / BA - Ibsol Telecom
- Ibitiara / BA - Ibsol Telecom
- Miguel Calmon / BA - Heptanet
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For this event, we received one video.
© YouTube/Meteors (screen capture)
The event was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN), from the meteor-observing stations located at La Hita (Toledo), Calar Alto (Almería), Sierra Nevada (Granada), and Sevilla.
An unusual sight was spotted in Cork skies last night when a meteorite was filmed blazing through the sky before it had even gone dark.
Footage shared on Twitter last night shows the fireball blasting across the Cork skyline while it was still bright.
The video was taken in Ballinhassig at around 9:26pm with experts saying it would be unusual for it to be a meteorite so early in the night.
Earlier today, a meteor flew through the skies of California. Tens of people in California saw the meteor, most of those around the San Francisco area. Witnesses flocked to the International Meteor Organisation (IMO) to report their sighting.
Some were concerned that it was going to make land surface - which it did not.
A person named Cole told the IMO: "It was extremely close looking compared to any other meteor-like object I've observed and was headed towards the direction of Briones Reservoir.
"Could've touched down not too far from my location but am unsure. Very visible fragmentation."
Comment: Considering the above, it's notable that there's been a significant uptick of fireballs and NEOs recorded on Earth in recent years:
- Russian complex "Okno-M" detected increased activity in space
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
- HUGE meteor fireball lights up western China's dark morning skies
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