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The Peekskill meteorite is the object resulting from a well-documented meteorite event that occurred in October, 1992, in Peekskill, New York, United States. [1] Sixteen separate video recordings document the meteorite burning through the Earth's atmosphere, whereupon it struck a parked car in Peekskill. [2]
A meteor exploded over New York City in the middle of the day, according to Nasa and local reports.. At around 11.17am local eastern time, a fireball appears to have flown over Manhattan and then ...
A meteorite fall, also called an observed fall, is a meteorite collected after its fall from outer space was observed by people or automated devices. Any other meteorite is called a " find ". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] There are more than 1,300 documented falls listed in widely used databases, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] most of which have specimens in modern collections.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) reported that, during the weekend of December 14–15, it received about 120 calls related to drone sightings but, upon investigation, most weren't drones at all but were manned aircraft, meteor showers, and the planet Venus. [87]
The Geminids are expected to be most active between noon and 8 p.m. ET Friday, according to Robert Lunsford, fireball report coordinator for the American Meteor Society. During this year’s event ...
The most powerful meteor air burst in the modern era was the 1908 Tunguska event. During this event a stony meteoroid about 50–60 m (160–200 ft) in size [1] [2]: p. 178 exploded at an altitude of 5–10 km (16,000–33,000 ft) over a sparsely populated forest in Siberia.
The Leonid meteor shower tends to produce 15 meteors per hour during its peak, but because of the moon’s full luminosity that will impede visibility of fainter meteors, viewing conditions may ...
March 15: all schools in the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE) system closed until at least mid-April. [240] March 22: The city goes into a state of lockdown, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. March 30: The Mercy-class hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) arrived in New York City to assist in against the COVID-19 pandemic. [241]