Fireballs
Residents in Maghull were left perplexed when huge explosions reverberated throughout the region.
The bangs are thought to have originated near Ashworth Hospital in Maghull's east end.
According to residents, they were initially heard around 9 p.m. last night.
One resident, who lives about an hour's walk from the hospital, explained: "I was watching football with my husband in my living room with the French doors open when I got a text from my brother-in-law saying, "Did you hear the pistol shots?"
"It was around 9 p.m.," says the narrator. It was a little startling, but strangely, no sirens were heard after that."
Some locals speculated on Facebook, with one stating the sounds were caused by a motorcycle backfiring and another believing the sounds were related to farming.
The meteoroid entered the Earth's atmosphere on Thursday shortly before 10:00 pm in the area around the German city of Deggendorf. "At that time, the body was moving at a speed of 11.7 kilometers per second, and along a runway sloping to the earth's surface of less than 25 degrees, it continued to fly in an east-southeast direction and gradually brightened," said Spurný.
Phaethon appealed to his father, who swore to prove his paternity by giving him whatever he wanted. Phaethon asked to be allowed to drive the chariot of the sun through the heavens for a single day. Helios, bound by his oath, had to let him make the attempt. Phaethon set off but was entirely unable to control the horses of the sun chariot, which came too near to the earth and began to scorch it. To prevent further damage, Zeus hurled a thunderbolt at Phaethon, who fell to the earth at the mouth of the Eridanus, a river later identified as the Po.Another cool thing for the Tusk is that I first learned the Phaethon myth may represent an actual cosmic event way back in 1995. My original guru — on all this stuff — is old buddy Bob Kobres. His neo-digital worldwide web page back in 95′ opened my eyes to the possibility that ancient myth isn't all just caveman campfire stories. Bob believed that long related tales of 'god's wrestling in the sky' were based on actual observations of physically realistic cosmic impacts.
Many casual eyewitnesses could see this bolide, most of them located in the provinces of Sevilla, Málaga, and Cádiz. The fireball was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, operated by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN) from the meteor-observing stations located at Sevilla, La Sagra (Granada), La Hita (Toledo), Sierra Nevada (Granada), and Calar Alto. 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).
According to NOHS principal Mario Amaca, he and other persons in the school heard a loud explosion at about 4pm.
Janette Sarcillo, the wife of one of the school's security guards, later reported that she found the "space stone" that fell near the guards' barracks.
"I saw the flaming object fall from the sky. It grew bigger and bigger as it approached the ground and made a loud explosion as it landed," she said.
A geologist of the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office will visit the NOHS campus on Monday to identify the stone.
Amaca said the fireball turned out to be a shiny black stone that is about two and a half inches thick and three inches long.

Mystery surrounds a noise and rumble that was heard across areas of the North-West, including Waratah.
People from Waratah, Wynyard, Burnie and Somerset replied to a post.
"Saw a bright flash which lit up the sky around 2am in Wynyard," Richard Middap posted.
"Cracked my bedroom window in West Mooreville," Nett Richards replied.
"Gone over Waratah. It broke a window," Judith Summers wrote.
Waratah resident Val Flemming said her window was left cracked after hearing and waking up to rumbling, shaking windows and a loud sound.
"It was clear it wasn't thunder, I know what thunder sounds like," she said.
"It could've been an earthquake, or a sonic boom.
From the South Bay through the city of San Diego and in to North County, residents reported a loud "boom" accompanied by the rattling of windows around 8:15 p.m. Tuesday.
Monitors didn't record any sort of significant earthquake in the region at that time, leaving a single educated guess, geologist Pat Abbott, a professor at San Diego State, told FOX 5.
"If the sound didn't emanate from underground there's only one more place to look and that's up above," Abbott told FOX 5, referring to a sonic boom. "Some aircraft ... something traveling at a rate faster than sound, oriented in the right direction."
While officials at Camp Pendleton have warned that artillery exercises may be heard in parts of San Diego this week, the sensation appeared to emanate from farther south, based on reports from residents. A military spokesperson added that aircraft they had over San Diego at the time are not capable of supersonic flight.
The event 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), Calar Alto (Almería), Sierra Nevada (Granada), La Sagra (Granada), and Sevilla.












