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Meteor fireball lights up Orihuela's sky in Spain on July 3

Dazzling dawn: Fireball lights up Orihuela's sky.
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An impressive stellar event was captured from the La Aparecida district in Orihuela.

The image, taken by Vicente Cayuelas, a meteorite hunter and collaborator with the Fireball and Meteorite Research Network (SPMN), showcases a fireball associated with a fragment of comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke.

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This spectacular sight was observed early on Wednesday, July 3 at 4:29.AM.

The SPMN reported that the fireball disintegrated over the Bay of Cartagena.

The captured video highlights the remarkable speed and size of the object, making it a breathtaking spectacle for astrophysics enthusiasts.


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Meteor fireball spotted blazing across night sky in Turkey on July 5

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A glittering fireball lit up the night sky in Turkey, captivating onlookers and sparking widespread interest.

The meteor, seen blazing across the sky, was captured in numerous videos that quickly surfaced online.

Visuals captured by people show the sky illuminated in flashes of green as the meteor traveled through the clouds over the area.

Witnesses described the event as a stunning display of natural beauty.


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Meteor fireball over Alabama and other states on July 5

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We received 22 reports about a fireball seen over AL, Alabama, FL, GA, MS, Tennessee and TN on Friday, July 5th 2024 around 03:50 UT.

For this event, we received one video.


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Impressive meteor fireball seen over central Poland on July 2

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Shortly after midnight from Monday to Tuesday, residents in parts of Poland witnessed a vivid flash in the night sky. The cause was a meteoroid hurtling towards Earth, its flight captured by observation stations affiliated with the Skytinel project.

"The fireball, whose trajectory passed entirely over the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship in Poland, was observed by two monitoring stations affiliated with our project: SN05 (operated by Dariusz Wiosna) and SN07 (operated by Mateusz Roman). Fortunately, no meteorites reached the ground this time," confirmed the authors of the Skytinel research project, which gathers enthusiasts of sky observation.

Calculations indicated that the meteoroid became visible at an altitude of 95.42 km and traveled towards Earth at an initial speed of approximately 25 km/s. During its flight, it decelerated to about 9 km/s and completely burned up at an altitude of 38.45 km, explained representatives of Skytinel on their websites.


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Best of the Web: Multiple meteor fireballs seen over Melbourne, Australia on July 3

Melburnians were treated to a remarkable sight on Wednesday night, as a “huge” meteor lit up the sky.
Melburnians were treated to a remarkable sight on Wednesday night, as a “huge” meteor lit up the sky.
Experts say back-to-back sightings of multiple fireballs detected across Victoria overnight were purely coincidental.

The events were detected by the Global Fireball Network — an Australia-wide network of cameras designed to track meteoroids entering the atmosphere.

Monash University professor and member of the network Andy Tomkins said the first sighting came in just before 6:30pm, followed by another about 9pm and two more just after 4am.

Dozens of Victorians reported spotting meteors across several locations including in the suburbs of Frankston, Footscray and Seaford.

"That's not uncommon with large fireballs, because they burn up in the upper atmosphere quite high up in the sky," Professor Tomkins said.


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Bright meteor fireball streaks across the sky of cities in southeast and south Brazil on June 22

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Clima ao Vivo and Bramon cameras recorded a bright meteor that occurred in the early hours of this Saturday (22), which streaked across the sky of cities in the Southeast and South.


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Meteor fireball over Pennsylvania and other states on June 26

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We received 177 reports about a fireball seen over DC, DE, Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, MD, NC, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, SC, South Carolina, Tennessee, VA, Virginia and WV on Wednesday, June 26th 2024 around 01:30 UT.

For this event, we received one video.


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Shocked quartz reveals evidence of historical cosmic airburst from 12,800 years ago

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© UC Santa BarbaraShocked quartz grains, with fissures filled with meltglass.
Researchers continue to expand the case for the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis. The idea proposes that a fragmented comet smashed into the Earth's atmosphere 12,800 years ago, causing a widespread climatic shift that, among other things, led to the abrupt reversal of the Earth's warming trend and into an anomalous near-glacial period called the Younger Dryas.

Now, UC Santa Barbara emeritus professor James Kennett and colleagues report the presence of proxies associated with the cosmic airburst distributed over several separate sites in the eastern United States (New Jersey, Maryland and South Carolina), materials indicative of the force and temperature involved in such an event, including platinum, microspherules, meltglass and shock-fractured quartz. The study appears in ScienceOpen's journal Airbursts and Cratering.

"What we've found is that the pressures and temperatures were not characteristic of major crater-forming impacts but were consistent with so-called 'touchdown' airbursts that don't form much in the way of craters," Kennett said.

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Meteor fireball over Texas and Louisiana on June 25

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We received 11 reports about a fireball seen over Louisiana, Texas and TX on Tuesday, June 25th 2024 around 04:58 UT.

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


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Meteor fireball over Texas and other states on June 22

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We received 88 reports about a fireball seen over AR, Arkansas, LA, Louisiana, OK, Oklahoma, Texas and TX on Saturday, June 22nd 2024 around 03:32 UT.

For this event, we received 2 videos.