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Australian catches close-up footage of meteor fireball

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© YouTube Screen Capture
Melbourne -- A man testing out his body camera at a Victoria, Australia, beach captured video of a suspected meteor falling to earth nearby.

The video, posted to YouTube (see below) by Overwatch Security, features body camera footage filmed by a worker for the firm as he walked on a Victoria beach on a stormy day.

The man faces out toward the water as the suspected meteor lights up the sky and streaks down toward the water.

The lights are quickly followed by the sound of the object passing through the air toward the water.

The video's time-stamp indicates it was filmed just after 8 p.m. Jan. 27.

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Meteor fireball filmed over Euless, Texas

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Meteor Feb 17 2016 Euless, TX

Cool video I captured with my dashcam of a really close meteor. I witnessed a similar incident higher up in the sky 2 days before this... Interesting happening, glad I was driving by at the right moment. This was on 183 Westbound in the Euless area.


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Meteorites recovered in Osceola County, Florida, following last month's overhead meteor explosion

 A portion of a ‘heat map’ – showing location of witnesses or observers, and ground trajectory – of January 24, 2016, daylight meteor via the American Meteor Society.
A portion of a ‘heat map’ – showing location of witnesses or observers, and ground trajectory – of January 24, 2016, daylight meteor via the American Meteor Society.
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© MikesAstroPhotos.com.Meteorite
You may remember hearing about a fireball meteor that streaked across the daytime sky in Florida late last month. Fragments of that meteorite have been tracked down and recovered by a group of meteorite enthusiasts, according to Earthsky.com.

Mike Hankey, Larry Atkins, Laura Atkins, Brendan Fallon and Josh Adkins searched for days in pine forests and swamplands across Florida in search of the space rock. The zone where the meteorites were found matched up perfectly with the trajectory that the meteor took during the January 24th fireball event. According to the American Meteor Society, there are now almost 130 reports that a bright meteor streaked over the southeast U.S. on January 24th and 10:25 A.M. ET.

Josh Adkins holds up an 800-gram meteorite
© Brendan FallonJosh Adkins holds up an 800-gram meteorite – a chunk of rock from space – associated with the January 24, 2016 daylight meteor over the U.S. Southeast.

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Meteorites buried under Antarctica may hold clues to solar system's origins

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© NASA / Reuters
Clues as to how the solar system came into existence could be hidden in a layer of meteorites just beneath the surface of Antarctica, a team of British scientists claim.

A recent study by researchers at the University of Manchester posits the theory that a "hidden reserve" of meteorites lies between 10 and 50cm beneath the icy surface.

If discoverable, these rocks - which were originally part of large planets which subsequently broke apart - could help scientists in their understanding of the formation of the solar system.


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Fireball lights up skies over northern Italy

Fireball over Italy
© YouReporterMany witnesses saw a meteorite fall over northern Italy on Wednesday evening.
A streaking fireball brighter than the full moon lit up skies over northern Italy on Wednesday evening.

The fireball left a trail of vapour hanging in the sky for minutes.

Not long after the unusual event, pictures of bright flashes, vapour trails and eyewitness reports started to emerge on social media, with users suggesting they had witnessed a meteorite falling to earth.

The unidentified flying object lit up skies over northern Italy, travelling east to west from Genoa to Venice at around 6.19pm.

Sightings of the object were also reported from as far away as southern France and Switzerland.

La Repubblica reported a spike in phone calls made to Italy's fire brigade to report the phenomenon.

A photo of the vapour trail, captured on a road outside Genoa, was uploaded to the Italian citizen journalism website, YouReporter.

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Bright meteor fireball lights up sky over southern France


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Bright meteor fireball lights up sky over southern France

meteor fireball over southern France 17.02.2016
© Youtube/MrMBB333 (screen capture)
Hundreds of people across south eastern France reported seeing the skies lit up by "balls of fire" on Wednesday evening.

While many wondered whether the phenomenon was linked to some kind of military exercise and others panicked that planes were on fire, the fire balls are believed to have been caused by a meteorite shower.

Social networks lit up at around 6.20pm on Wednesday after hundreds of people caught sight of a fire ball passing through the sky.

"You're never going to believe me but I saw a meteorite, something on fire falling from the sky! "F**king hell I 'm in shock," said one eyewitness.

The regional newspaper Dauphiné Libéré said hundreds of eye-witnesses had contacted them from right across southern France.

Readers described seeing a "green ball with a trail" or a "white ball that exploded followed by a long trail of fire."

One resident in the Alps told Le Parisien newspaper the meteorite "passed pretty low and horizontally and was a big ball of green fire."


Comment: The American Meteor Society (AMS) has received 55 reports about a fireball seen over South France and Switzerland on 17th February 2016.

NASA space data supports citizens' observations that - meteor fireball activity is increasing dramatically!

For more information read: Comets and the Horns of Moses by Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection: The Secret History of the World - Book 3 by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk.


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Green fireball streaks across US East Coast

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© NASANASA image of a fireball from a past meteor shower.
A large green meteor streaked across the sky Tuesday evening, prompting dozens of reports to the American Meteor Society.

The fireball was seen from New Jersey and Delaware into southern Virginia around 7:10 p.m. People reported it as green and bright.

It was the second fireball seen in recent weeks in the Mid-Atlantic skies. On Jan. 30, hundreds of people in the D.C. area reported seeing a streaking meteor, and it was even captured on dash cam.

According to the American Meteor Society, fireballs are very bright meteors, about as bright as Venus in the morning and evening skies.

About 10 to 15 meteorites fall to Earth each day, but sightings are rare since streaking fireballs often fall over the ocean, or during daylight hours when they can't be seen.

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Chelyabinsk meteor's third anniversary still a source of mystery today

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© Alex AlishevskikhThe Chelyabinsk superbolide flew over the Urals early on the morning of February 15, 2013.
On a quiet morning on Feb. 15, 2013, a meteor entered the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of 40,000 miles per hour (11 miles per second), exploding over Chelyabinsk, Russia with a reported force of 30 atomic bombs. In fact, the shockwave was allegedly so intense that people reported damage up to 75 miles away from the meteor's explosion, which occurred about nine miles above sea level.

Hundreds of studies have been written since then, but scientists are still trying to figure out where it came from, and how it went undetected. It's not like the rock itself was particularly big—about 65 feet—but it continues to leave a mark. Upon its atmospheric entry, the explosion generated a superbolide that scientists say was brighter than the sun; some eyewitnesses at the time reported feeling an intense heat from the fireball.

It must have truly felt like the end of the world.

About 1,500 people were injured due to broken glass and other debris, though no deaths were reported. Although scientists have an idea of where the Chelyabinsk meteor came from, they're still not 100 percent sure. To that end, researchers also aren't sure if it's part of a larger threat. Following the event in 2013, one researcher said, "If humanity does not want to go the way of the dinosaurs, we need to study an event like this in detail."

The bad news is rocks the size of the Chelyabinsk meteor are undetectable from Earth, which means a similar event could happen at any time.

"Another body of this size could hit Earth without warning in the future," said Jiri Borovicka, as astronomer at the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic.

Source: Agenciasinc

Comment: Recently NASA created a 'Planetary Defense Coordination Office' with a view to track meteors headed toward Earth, and "redirect" potentially dangerous asteroids as part of a long-term planetary defense goal.

However, asteroid 'redirection' or 'deflection' remains just theoretical. A more accurate way of looking at it is that NASA is funding deflection and redirection of the topic of space threats by 'getting the message out' that 'everything is just fine'.

On the third anniversary of the Chelyabinsk meteor, it is well worth remembering what can come out of the sky, without any warning at all:


Even NASA's own space data supports citizens' recent observations, namely the inconvenient fact that meteor fireballs are increasing dramatically.

For more on the very high probability of Earth soon being on the receiving end of direct or indirect cometary bombardment, and why, see Laura Knight-Jadczyk's Comets and Catastrophe series: And the books: Comets and the Horns of Moses by Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Earth Changes and the Human Cosmic Connection: The Secret History of the World - Book 3 by Pierre Lescaudron and Laura Knight-Jadczyk


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Valentine's Day meteor fireball streaks over Northeastern US

meteor fireball over Delaware
© Youtube/Bill Conklin (screen capture)
A streak of light, followed by a large flash over Dover, DE on Valentines Day morning.


Comment: The American Meteor Society (AMS) received 81 reports yesterday of a fireball observed over NE United States.

Other sightings of meteor fireballs over the US in recent weeks include: NASA space data supports citizens' observations that - meteor fireball activity is increasing dramatically!


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Meteor? Unexplained flashes of light puzzle residents of Petrozavodsk, Russia

Flash of light!
© Screenshot via You Tube/Live Petrozavodsk
What is this mysterious flash of light recorded by different cameras in the city of Petrozavodsk, the capital city of the Republic of Karelia, Russia?

Most probably a meteor exploding and lighting up the city for a brief moment on February 11, 2016 just before midnight.


Comment: Another video of the event: