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Leonid meteor shower light up night sky with spectacular shooting stars


RT
Sun, 17 Nov 2019 15:16 UTC
Leonid meteor shower
© Reuters / Ali jareji
One of the most famous annual meteor displays, the Leonid shower, is peaking this weekend and even though this year's show could be a downer, stargazers will still be treated to occasional spectacular fireballs and shooting stars.

The Leonid is expected to be best visible in the early hours of the morning on Monday, between 2am and 4am.
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Asteroid the size of the Great Pyramid could hit Earth in 2022


Sputnik News
Sat, 16 Nov 2019 22:45 UTC
Asteroid
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Scientists from the American space agency claim that asteroids the size of a football field collide with our planet every 2000 years, with another giant rock now heading towards the Earth.

NASA just announced when a giant asteroid, known as JF1, would hit Earth if it continues on its current trajectory - and it's not too far from now.

The American space agency predicted that a 128-meter-long space rock - the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt - could collide with our planet on 6 May 2022, potentially causing devastating consequences by wiping out an entire city just in seconds and causing millions of deaths.

As JF1 is believed to strike the Earth with a power of 230 kilotons of TNT - 15 times higher than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima that was equivalent in energy to 15 kilotons of TNT.
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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: This cycle is going to be different


Adapt 2030
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 20:46 UTC
US arctic blast
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
With heavier more powerful cycles at our door step we as a society need to have conversations on global food security. We as a species have even forgotten major celestial events as recently as 200 years with the meteor shower of 1833 in SE USA and the Carrington event that aurora were seen in South America. Now this year unprecedented blizzards, Arctic freezes cover the N. Hemisphere and the coldest temperature ever recorded in October in the N. Hemisphere in Utah. Changes have begun.


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Amateur Crimean astronomer discovers new comet in solar system: C2019V1 (Borisov)


RT
Thu, 14 Nov 2019 17:08 UTC
New Comet Borisov
© NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLAGennady Borisov has been contacted by the International Astronomical Union about his latest discovery.
Not content with leading NASA to detect water from an alien star system on board an interstellar visitor, Crimean amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov has discovered another comet.

The new comet, traveling at roughly 30km per second in the patch of sky between the Lynx and Cancer constellations, marks the ninth stellar object Borisov has discovered. Unlike his previously discovered comet, dubbed 2I/Borisov, this one is a resident of our solar system.

"I discovered a new comet in early November. I have just received a letter from the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union. This is not an interstellar comet. It's an ordinary one, which is a solar system object. It got the name C2019V1 (Borisov). This is a confirmed discovery," Borisov told TASS news agency.
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Spectacular meteor fireball caught on camera above St. Louis, Missouri - Event seen from across US Midwest


Sputnik
Tue, 12 Nov 2019 20:03 UTC
Fireball over St.Louis
© Screenshot/AMS American Meteor SocietyEarthcam footage captures the moment in which a fireball streaks across the Missouri nighttime sky near St. Louis' Gateway Arch.
Hundreds of local residents across the US state of Missouri were given front row tickets to a meteor show late Monday after a flaming rock streaked across the nighttime sky.

Local news station KMOV reported that the jaw-dropping meteor was spotted "from Columbia to St. Charles County and into St. Louis County and south St. Louis City," before disappearing into the night over Wellsville.

Reports of a fireball - a bright, slow-moving meteor - began to emerge at roughly 8:45 p.m. local time, with some residents reporting that the flashing rock was accompanied by the sound of a loud boom.

Comment: No, no, no. You CANNOT predict these things.

These are NOT the teensy-weensy flits you see during meteor showers. Those are 'shooting stars'.

These other things are LARGE CHUNCKS OF SPACE ROCK EXPLODING IN THE ATMOSPHERE.

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Meteor fireball reported over France; seen in Switzerland, Germany


Sott.net
Wed, 06 Nov 2019 17:22 UTC
Fireball over Switzerland
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On November 6, 2019, the American Meteor Society (AMS) received 14 reports of a fireball over southeastern France. The meteor was also seen in Switzerland and Germany.
Fireball over Switzerland
© AMS
AMS member Alexandre M. caught the event on his dashcam as it flew over Lausanne, Switzerland:

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Fireball lights up the skies over St. Louis during Northern Taurid meteor shower

Tom McKay
Gizmodo
Tue, 12 Nov 2019 13:21 UTC
fireball st louis
Make a wish: Cameras in St. Louis, Missouri caught what appeared to be a meteor falling from the skies on Monday night, KSDL and KMOV reported.

Both stations reported that local residents saw a flash of light and loud noise at about 8:55 p.m. local time (9:55 p.m. ET). Twitter user David Vergel posted footage from an EarthCam aimed at the city's iconic Gateway Arch of the object streaking through the atmosphere, while other locals appear to have picked up the event on home security cameras. The Northern Taurid meteor shower, which is known for brighter-than-usual meteors called fireballs, was expected to peak on Monday night into the early hours of Tuesday with St. Louis just on the eastern edge of the highest visibility region on the map, KSDK reported.
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Bright meteor fireball streaks across the US East Coast


Inside Nova
Sun, 10 Nov 2019 19:40 UTC
Fireball over VA
© Myron W.
The American Meteor Society received 43 reports of a bright fireball streaking across the sky along the East Coast Sunday evening.

The meteor was seen about 7:40 p.m. from New York to North Carolina, with several reports from the D.C. area, including Leesburg and Vienna.

The fireball (another term for a very bright meteor), is likely part of the annual Taurid meteor shower, which peaks this week.

Every year from September to November, the Earth passes through a broad stream of debris left by Comet Encke, according to NASA.
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Flash of light, loud boom shakes up Cabarrus County, North Carolina residents

Tina Terry
WSOC-TV
Fri, 08 Nov 2019 15:48 UTC
Mystery boom in Cabarrus Cty, NC
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Residents in Cabarrus County flooded the 911 call center after they said there was a loud boom and bright flash in the sky overnight Friday.

"I didn't see anything," a resident said. "(I) just heard the loud explosion sound and then, we started seeing sirens."

Channel 9's Tina Terry talks to residents about the disruption and asks officials where it came from.

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Mystery bang, flash of light rocks homes in Coventry, England

Laura Hartley
Coventry Telegraph
Fri, 08 Nov 2019 11:17 UTC
Mystery boom (stock)
© Coventry Telegraph
Social media was rife last night after 'loud bangs', an 'explosion' and a 'massive flash' were seen and heard over the city.

People living across the north of the Coventry were shocked when they heard the loud bangs in the early hours.

Residents in Coundon, Allesley and even in Radford and Keresley were woken and startled by the noise.

Across social media, more than one bang was heard, with people saying it sounded louder than a firework.

One said: "I've just heard a massive bang", while another said "what the hell was that."
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