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Evacuations following floods in Vrsac, Serbia

Richard Davies
Floodlist
Fri, 09 Jun 2017 18:07 UTC

© Serbia Ministry of Interior
Department for Emergency Situations in Serbia carried out flood rescues in areas near Vršac.

One person has died and as many over 40 people were evacuated when a storm and heavy rain caused flooding in parts of north eastern Serbia on Wednesday 07 June, 2017.

Serbia's Ministry of Interior reported flooding in the villages of Uljma, Izbiste, and Šušara, near Vršac in the province of Vojvodina. Vršac is around 75 km north east of the capital Belgrade, close to the border with Romania.

The Ministry of Interior reported that the Department for Emergency Situations had evacuated 42 people in the affected villages. Dozens of homes were inundated although much of the flood water soon subsided. Local media say that one person, thought to be an elderly woman, died in the floods.

Russian meteor stream study of 1966

Paul Roggemans
Meteor News
Sun, 04 Jun 2017 20:51 UTC

© NASA-ARC/Image courtesy A. Scott Murrell and James W. Young
by Alexandra Terentjeva (Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia): ater@inasan.ru

3600 individual photographic orbits of meteor bodies and about 2000 visual meteor radiants with corresponding velocities were compiled and carefully studied in detail. 154 minor meteor streams were detected in the Solar System, their basic orbital and other data are given.

Firstly some remarkable shower and stream properties are established: examples of the large elliptic radiation areas with semi-major axes perpendicular to the Ecliptic; the existence of the Northern (N) , Southern (S) and Ecliptical (Q) branches of some streams; stream-antipodes and radiant-antipodes (symmetrically arranged relatively to the Ecliptic) with angular distances from the Ecliptic to 40-80°; а number of short-perihelion streams (q ~ 0.05-0.07 A.U.); some meteor streams perpendicular to the Ecliptic's plane.

There are also some unique meteor bodies with their orbits enclosed within the limits of the Earth's one, or having the clockwise and anticlockwise direction in two similar orbits.

Comment: See also: New study: Threat of asteroid collision on Earth higher than previously thought

Flaming meteor fireball seen exploding in South Africa

Retha Nel
Corridor Gazette
Thu, 08 Jun 2017 15:46 UTC

The Southern Cross, near where the meteor fragment passed.

A resident was astounded when he spotted a large fireball while stargazing at Kaapmuiden last week. He approached an astronomical expert to find out what it was.

A resident spotted a massive fireball in the sky, the result of a falling meteor fragment, while stargazing last Tuesday at 19:35.

Bertus van der Merwe said he was standing outside his house, looking south, when a large fireball came from the east, moved west over the treetops and exploded. He was stunned and mesmerised, as it wasn't just a light, he could make out flames.

He said when he went back into his house, he joked that he now knew where the expression "great balls of fire" comes from.

Van der Merwe found a fireball report form on the Internet and sent it to Tim Cooper of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa for answers.

Given the size and brightness of the fireball, Cooper stated that it might have been a large meteor fragment. After determining Van der Merwe's location, Cooper plotted the path the meteor may have followed.

Possible meteorite impact in Jaipur, India

Akanksha Sharma
Top Yaps
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 23:20 UTC

The universe has its own peculiar ways to establish contact with the planet Earth. Although we have been quite lucky for the past hundreds of years that nothing as destructive as the extinction of dinosaurs has happened, however, every now and then, the cosmic bodies give us a visit in the form of meteorites.

Monday night turned into a nightmarish experience for the people of Mukundpura village when a mysterious object resembling a fireball fell on the farm of Banshi Bagha. Scared and skeptical of the object, people spent the night fearing an explosion. The area is situated on the outskirts of city of Jaipur.

Meteor fireball filmed across Washington DC sky

Allyson Rae
wusa9.com
Wed, 07 Jun 2017 18:37 UTC

Fireball spotted across DC sky

Some people around D.C., Maryland and Virginia witnessed a fireball light up the sky Tuesday night just before 10 p.m.

This fireball, which appears to be a shooting, burst of light, is actually a meteor. The meteor is a piece of debris and appears bright because it is burning up as it passes through our atmosphere.

This fireball or meteor was reported to the American Meteor Society 28 times. If a fireball or meteor were to reach Earth's surface, it would be called a meteorite.

Small meteors pass through our atmosphere almost every day, but most go undetected.

New Comet: C/2017 K4 (ATLAS)

Ernesto Guido
Remanzacco Blogspot
Mon, 05 Jun 2017 07:19 UTC

CBET nr. 4397, issued on 2017, June 01, announces the discovery of a comet (magnitude ~17) by the "Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System" (ATLAS) Team on CCD exposures taken on May 26.5 with the ATLAS 0.5-m f/2.0 Schmidt telescope at Haleakala. The new comet has been designated C/2017 K4 (ATLAS).

I performed follow-up measurements of this object, while it was still on the neocp. Stacking of 10 unfiltered exposures, 120 seconds each, obtained remotely on 2017, May 29.4 from Q62 (iTelescope network) through 0.43-m f/6.8 reflector + CCD, shows that this object is a comet with a diffuse coma nearly 10 arcsec in diameter

My confirmation image (click on it for a bigger version)

Greek photographer captures meteor fireball over Corfu

Bill Metallinos and Jim Foster
Earth Science Pictures of the Day
Sat, 03 Jun 2017 18:34 UTC

The photo above showing a startling fireball appearing to rip apart the night sky was seen during a star observation session at Mount Pantokrator on the Greek island of Corfu.

I had set my camera up to get a picture of our small group and before long this brilliant meteor lit up the surrounding landscape. It was approximately -8 magnitude or about 25 times brighter than Venus at its brightest -- so bright that we were bathed in a sea of blue-green light. You can see the reflection on my 16 in (41 cm) telescope, on the table at right-center and on the side of my car.

Click here to see a short animation. [Revised May 2017]

Doorbell camera captures meteor fireball exploding over Arizona

Vivint Smart Home
YouTube
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 18:28 UTC

A meteor flew over Arizona at 3 a.m. Not many saw it, but these 2 Vivint Smart Home customers were able to catch it on their doorbell camera.

Meteor fireball lights up southern English coast

Zoe Stevens
Devon Live
Sat, 03 Jun 2017 20:54 UTC

A fireball brighter than the moon lit up the skies over Dawlish on Thursday night - and a video shows the spectacular ball of light plummeting down to earth.

An amazing video, shot by Dawlish Beach Cam, shows the fireball, otherwise known as a meteor, at 11.38pm. It is reported that over 50 members of the public reported seeing phenomenal light ball to the UK Meteor Network.

The operators of the Dawlish Beach Cam reported the sighting to the UK Meteor Network.

A spokesman from Dawlish Beach Cam said: "This particular type is known as a Bolide fireball which means that it is brighter than the moon.

"The team are still collating information on this particular event but they do have some other footage and the trajectory they believe the fireball took.

Meteor fireball explodes over southern Switzerland

OGVT - Observatoire géophysique, Val Terbi
YouTube
Fri, 02 Jun 2017 05:35 UTC

#Meteor over the southern part of #Switzerland recorded in #Montsevelier #ValTerbi #Jura on 06/02/2017, 00:38:41 UTC

Further data: http://www.meteorastronomie.ch/detail...

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Fireballs

Evacuations following floods in Vrsac, Serbia

Russian meteor stream study of 1966

Flaming meteor fireball seen exploding in South Africa

Possible meteorite impact in Jaipur, India

Meteor fireball filmed across Washington DC sky

New Comet: C/2017 K4 (ATLAS)

Greek photographer captures meteor fireball over Corfu

Doorbell camera captures meteor fireball exploding over Arizona

Meteor fireball lights up southern English coast

Meteor fireball explodes over southern Switzerland

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