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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 Sagra (Granada), Sevilla, and Mazagón (Huelva). 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: SWEMN20251118_021744.
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A bright fireball was observed over New Zealand's North Island at 09:31 UTC (22:31 NZDT) on November 17, 2025, captured by multiple Fireballs Aotearoa cameras, including the color camera at Tauranga Astronomical Society in Matua and station NZ0033 in Katikati.
A very bright fireball was recorded over New Zealand's North Island at 09:31 UTC on Monday, November 17.
Fireballs Aotearoa reported captures on several network cameras, including the Tauranga Astronomical Society (TAS) color meteor camera in Matua, Tauranga, and the Katikati station.
No trajectory, radiant, absolute magnitude estimate, fragmentation data or potential fall area has been published at this time. The event occurred near the nominal Leonid maximum (active November 6-30 with peak around November 17), but any shower association remains unconfirmed pending analysis of multi-station data.
Note that the audio heard on the clip below is wind noise on the microphone, not sound from the meteor.
© Fireballs AotearoaBright fireball over North Island, New Zealand on November 17, 2025.
A very bright fireball was recorded over New Zealand's North Island at 09:31 UTC on Monday, November 17.
Fireballs Aotearoa reported captures on several network cameras, including the Tauranga Astronomical Society (TAS) color meteor camera in Matua, Tauranga, and the Katikati station.
No trajectory, radiant, absolute magnitude estimate, fragmentation data or potential fall area has been published at this time. The event occurred near the nominal Leonid maximum (active November 6-30 with peak around November 17), but any shower association remains unconfirmed pending analysis of multi-station data.
Note that the audio heard on the clip below is wind noise on the microphone, not sound from the meteor.
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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 La Hita (Toledo), La Sagra (Granada), Sevilla, and Mazagón (Huelva). 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: SWEMN20251116_040132.
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New images show that comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) has fragmented after passing its closest point to the sun, ahead of its close approach to Earth later this month. This is not the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.
The "other" Comet ATLAS has fragmented, transforming into a cloud of debris that's streaming into space, new observations have revealed.
The comet, called C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), was discovered in May by astronomers at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and passed perihelion, or closest point to the sun, on Oct. 8. It has no relation to the famous interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, other than having been discovered by the same telescope network around the same time.
Initial observations appeared to suggest that Comet K1 survived its passage around our star at a minimum distance of 31 million miles (50 million kilometers), or roughly four times closer than Comet 3I/ATLAS got.
However, new observations taken by astronomer Gianluca Masi in Manciano, Italy, show that the gravitational strain of its voyage around the sun was too much for the comet, causing it to fragment into several pieces, or clouds.
"Several parts (sub-nuclei or clouds of debris) are visible, also a plume just below the leading (the first from the left) fragment," Masi, an astronomer at the Astronomical Observatory of Campo Catino and the founder of The Virtual Telescope Project, wrote in an update.
© Gianluca Masi / The Virtual Telescope ProjectA new telescope image of the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) shows it has broken into pieces following its recent close approach to the sun. The comet is not related to the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.
The comet, called C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), was discovered in May by astronomers at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and passed perihelion, or closest point to the sun, on Oct. 8. It has no relation to the famous interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, other than having been discovered by the same telescope network around the same time.
Initial observations appeared to suggest that Comet K1 survived its passage around our star at a minimum distance of 31 million miles (50 million kilometers), or roughly four times closer than Comet 3I/ATLAS got.
However, new observations taken by astronomer Gianluca Masi in Manciano, Italy, show that the gravitational strain of its voyage around the sun was too much for the comet, causing it to fragment into several pieces, or clouds.
"Several parts (sub-nuclei or clouds of debris) are visible, also a plume just below the leading (the first from the left) fragment," Masi, an astronomer at the Astronomical Observatory of Campo Catino and the founder of The Virtual Telescope Project, wrote in an update.
