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Meteor fireball over Michigan and surrounding states on February 20


American Meteor Society
Tue, 21 Feb 2023 13:28 UTC
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© Spalding Allsky Camera Network, Node73 - Pete Mumbower
We received 197 reports about a fireball seen over IL, IN, MI, NY, OH, Ontario, PA and WI on Monday, February 20th 2023 around 01:51 UT.

For this event, we received 5 videos and one photo.

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Best of the Web: Meteorite found in northern France following break-up of brilliant meteor fireball

Deena Theresa
Interestingengineering.com
Fri, 17 Feb 2023 11:20 UTC
023 CX1 Fireball Meteorite discovered in Northern France.
© FRIPON/Vigie-ciel023 CX1 Fireball Meteorite discovered in Northern France.
On February 12, around 10 pm EST (0300 GMT, February 13), an asteroid burned up rather dramatically over Europe.

Hours later, a space-focused citizen science volunteer group found a meteorite from the fireball event 2023 CX1.

Members of the science group Vigie-Ciel (translated to 'Sky Lookout') and a related project, FRIPON, another space-focused citizen science effort working with French scientific institutions like the Paris Observatory and the University of Paris-Saclay can be credited with confirming the exciting find.

Loïs Leblanc, an 18-year-old student, found the meteorite first. At 4:47 pm, Leblanc chanced upon "a dark stone barely level with the ground of a field in the town of Saint-Pierre-le-Viger," the group wrote in a blog post.


Comment: Videos below of this terrible beauty as it burned up over northwestern Europe:

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Meteor fireball over Italy on February 14


American Meteor Society
Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:14 UTC
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We received 30 reports about a fireball seen over Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Emilia-Romagna, Lazio, Ljubljana, Marche, Puglia, Toscana, Umbria and Zadarska županija on Tuesday, February 14th 2023 around 17:59 UT.

For this event, we received one video.

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Texas: Meteor fireball tracked on anniversary of Chelyabinsk incident - UPDATE: NASA confirms detection of asteroid


RT
Thu, 16 Feb 2023 17:48 UTC
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© US National Weather ServiceSatellite imagery shows the bright flash produced by a suspected meteor spotted over southern Texas on February 15, 2023.
A suspected meteor was seen blazing through the sky over Texas on Wednesday night, according to a local sheriff, who cited air traffic controllers in the area. The US National Weather Service confirmed that it detected a bright "flash" in the atmosphere, almost exactly ten years after a massive meteor came down in Chelyabinsk, Russia.


Comment: It actually happened during daytime, as you'll see from CCTV footage below.


Hidalgo County Sheriff Eddie Guerra took to social media to relay the reports from the aviation authorities in Houston, saying more than one aircraft had spotted a meteor near McAllen, a border town in southern Texas.

"Was informed by my federal partners that Houston Air Traffic Control received reports from two aircrafts that they saw a meteorite west of McAllen. Where the exact point of impact is unknown," the sheriff said, adding that there had been no reports of damage in the area.

The chief of police in nearby Alton, Jonathan Flores, told local media that he felt a "blast" on Wednesday night, but could not pinpoint its origin.

Comment: UPDATE: 17th February 2023 @ 12:03 CET

NASA - late to the party, as usual! - confirms 'entry of an asteroid':

ZeroHedge reports further:
After examining multiple reports, NASA released a statement Thursday that confirmed a meteoroid made entry near McAllen around 1800 ET.

"NASA experts believe the object was a meteoroid about two feet in diameter weighing about 1,000 pounds," a statement from the space agency read. [...]

We have one question: Why didn't planetary defense systems monitor the meteoroid, especially since it was a 1,000-pound chunk of space rock? Or was the military's radar system too busy chasing balloons?
Good question. British astronomer Victor Clube articulated the perfect answer:
"We do not need the celestial threat to disguise Cold War intentions; rather we need the Cold War to disguise celestial intentions!"

~ British astronomer Victor Clube, author of The Cosmic Serpent and The Cosmic Winter, in a report commissioned by the U.S. Air Force


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Meteor fireball over Ohio and 2 other states on February 14


American Meteor Society
Wed, 15 Feb 2023 11:55 UTC
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We received 8 reports about a fireball seen over MI, OH and PA on Tuesday, February 14th 2023 around 09:41 UT.

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

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Small Asteroid 2023 CX1 (NEOCP Sar2667) impacted Earth on February 13

Ernesto Guido
Remanzacco Blogspot
Mon, 13 Feb 2023 05:08 UTC
On 2023 February 12.8 (20:18:07 UTC), K. Sarneczky found a small asteroid with the 0.60-m Schmidt + CCD of the Piszkéstető Observatory in Hungary (K88 MPC code) that was soon after put on the NEOCP list with the provisional designation Sar2667 for the follow-up by other observers. The object was subsequently imaged by many observers around the world and various impact assessment systems found a 100% impact probability in the area of the English Channel on Feb. 13 between 02 and 04 UTC. This is the second discovery by Sarneczky of an impactor, following the 2022 EB5 event in March 2022.

M.P.E.C. 2023-C103 issued subsequently on 2023 February 13 at 04:13 UT assigned the official designation 2023 CX1 to Sar2667 with the following comment:
K. Sarneczky reported a new NEOCP candidate observed at GINOP-KHK (K88). Rapid follow-up from multiple sites indicated an impact with the Earth's atmosphere on February 13 03:00 UTC near the coast of Normandy, France, as determined by imminent impact monitoring services such as JPL's Scout, ESA's Meerkat and MPC's internal warning system.
Map of the impact zone predicted to occur a few kilometers from French coast, North-East of Le Havre. Click on it for a bigger version.

Asteroid Impact Site
© International Meteor Organization
2023 CX1 was a small Aten asteroid with an estimated size of ~1.0 m (based on the object's absolute magnitude H=32.6).
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Best of the Web: Spectacular meteor fireball seen from northern France and southern UK on February 13


American Meteor Society
Mon, 13 Feb 2023 10:47 UTC
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We received 84 reports about a fireball seen over Île-de-France, Bruxelles, Centre-Val de Loire, Cymru, England, Esch-sur-Alzette, Flanders, Grand Est, Hauts-de-France, Limburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Normandie, Normandy, North Rhine-Westphalia, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Pays de la Loire, Vlaams Gewest, Wales and Zeeland on Monday, February 13th 2023 around 02:58 UT.

For this event, we received 17 videos and 6 photos.


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Meteor fireball seen over LaBelle, Florida on February 9


Fox4now.com
Thu, 09 Feb 2023 12:39 UTC
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A Fox 4 viewer sent in this video of a fireball seen burning over Port LaBelle early Thursday morning, around 5 a.m.

Fireballs like this are caused by meteors burning up as they hit Earth's atmosphere.

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Huge meteor fireball over Saudi Arabia on February 9


alertamundialinfo.com
Thu, 09 Feb 2023 19:08 UTC
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A video clip circulating on social media documents the moment a meteorite fell in Dawadmi Governorate, northwest of Riyadh.

Meteorologist Abdulaziz Al-Hussain said in a tweet: "A strong blue light appeared in the sky surrounding the meteorite in the Najd region, and a tremor was said to be felt on its impact," local media reports .

At the same level, the head of the Astronomical Society in Jeddah, Eng. Majed Al Zahra confirmed that this bright meteor, which is also called (the fireball), is larger than the ordinary meteor, and drew a lot of attention in social media platforms, where many confirmed to see it in a very bright blue color. It illuminated the surface of the earth and was accompanied by a loud sound, which means that it descended very deep into the atmosphere.

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Green meteor fireball crosses the skies of Puerto Rico on February 6


alertamundialinfo.com
Tue, 07 Feb 2023 12:17 UTC
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A fireball was captured in the skies of Puerto Rico at 10:01 pm on Monday, said the Caribbean Astronomy Society (SAC).

According to the institution, the meteorite was a piece of the asteroid called "2001 YB5", belonging to the "Delta Cancrids" meteor shower.

The meteor disintegrated in the atmosphere at a speed of 62,000 miles per hour and it is possible that small fragments reached the surface over the sea.

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