We received 67 reports about a fireball seen over IA, IL, Iowa, Kansas, KS, Minnesota, Missouri, MN, MO, Nebraska, SD, South Dakota, WI and Wisconsin on Tuesday, April 8th 2025 around 10:22 UT.
For this event, we received 4 videos and one photo.
"Newly-discovered Comet SWAN25F is brightening nicely as it approaches the sun," reports Mike Olason, who sends these pictures from Tucson, Arizona. "On the morning of April 6th, the comet was magnitude 8.4 with a bright green 3' wide coma and a thin tail that extended well beyond my field of view."
The comet is named after the SWAN camera onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO). Australian amateur astronomer Michael Mattiazzo noticed the comet in online images. SWAN is a special camera that maps hydrogen in the solar wind, which suggests this comet may be rich in the element.
We received 82 reports about a fireball seen over Aargau, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Île-de-France, Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Centre-Val de Loire, England, Grand Est, Hauts-de-France, Hessen, Limburg, Lombardia, Luxembourg, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Normandie, Oberösterreich and Région W on Sunday, April 6th 2025 around 00:31 UT.
For this event, we received 2 videos and 3 photos.
We received 45 reports about a fireball seen over Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Brandenburg, Drenthe, Gelderland, Hauts-de-France, Hessen, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt and Thüringen on Saturday, April 5th 2025 around 22:00 UT.