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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 ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A meteor streaked over the New York City skyline before disintegrating over nearby New Jersey, according to NASA. William Cooke, the head of the space agency's Meteoroid ...
A meteor that exploded in a spectacular fireball over Niagara Falls in 2022 was the smallest asteroid ever measured, a new study has found.. The asteroid, spotted by astronomers just hours before ...
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 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]
As the meteor, traveling at a speed of about 14 km/s (8.7 mi/s), entered the atmosphere, it began to break apart, and the fragments fell together, some burying themselves 6 metres (20 ft) deep. [3] At an altitude of about 5.6 km (3.5 mi), the largest mass apparently broke up in an explosion called an air burst .
A bright flash in the Minnesota sky was followed by ”a thunderous boom” in what officials say may have been caused by a meteor. The possible celestial event happened at 6:40 p.m. Monday, Nov ...
The Astoria Borealis was an industrial accident that occurred at a Con Edison substation in Astoria, Queens, New York City, on December 27, 2018. During the incident, a 138,000 volt coupling capacitor potential device failed, resulting in an arc flash , which in turn burned aluminum , lighting up the sky with a blue-green spectacle visible for ...