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A fireball was seen hurtling over Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona early Thursday, April 27, and videos show it exploded into multiple pieces before vanishing in the dark.
The following is a list of bolides and fireballs seen on Earth in recent times. These are small asteroids (known as meteoroids ) that regularly impact the Earth. Although most are so small that they burn up in the atmosphere before reaching the surface, some larger objects may reach the surface as fragments, known as meteorites .
It entered Earth's atmosphere at a speed of 15 kilometres per second (9.3 mi/s) [2] in daylight over Utah, United States (14:30 local time) and passed northwards leaving the atmosphere over Alberta, Canada. It was seen by many people and recorded on film and by space-borne sensors. [3]
"The Tennessee fireball was caused by a 2-inch chunk of an asteroid moving at 46,300 miles per hour; the Michigan fireball was produced by a piece of a comet over 2 feet across, probably weighing ...
Many people reported to have seen the object around 9:44 p.m. Wes Ryle, astronomer for the Cincinnati Observatory , confirmed people did, in fact, see a meteor Thursday.
December 24, 2014, a slow moving Christmas Eve fireball SPMN241214 passed over north Africa, Spain, and Portugal, travelling about 1,200 km in the atmosphere. [15] July 7, 2017, the Desert Fireball Network observed a grazing fireball that traveled over 1300 km through the atmosphere above Western Australia and South Australia. The closest ...
Nearly two dozen witnesses have reported seeing a fireball over Florida’s west coast around 9 p.m. on Sunday, March 12, and some acted fast enough to get video.. The American Meteor Society says ...
An example of a bright, green-hued bolide.. Some ufologists consider green fireballs to be of artificial, extraterrestrial origin. [1] [4] Beyond meteors/bolides, outlier scientific explanations include sequelae of atomic weapons tests, including clouds of nuclear fallout, lunar material ejected from meteor impacts on the Moon's surface, and aircraft associated with secret military projects.