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2. ‘Election fireball’ meteor shower to peak tonight in first of ...

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   Twin meteor showers will peak just a week apart this month, with the first celestial display taking place on Monday night.. The Southern Taurids will reach their zenith on the night of 4-5 ...

3. How, when, and where to see the Perseids - AOL

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   The Perseids meteor shower is often the best of the year, with bright fireballs and colorful tails. A planetary conjunction of Jupiter and Mars will also be visible to the naked eye this weekend ...

4. Why tonight’s meteor shower offers a rare opportunity to see ...

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   The Southern Taurid meteor shower is set to peak on the night of November 5, when sky-gazers will get a chance to see bright fireballs blaze across the sky.

5. Meteor air burst - Wikipedia

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   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 resulting shock wave flattened an estimated 80 million trees over a 2,150 km 2 (830 sq mi) area, and may have killed 3 people.

6. Video shows bright fireball seen in the skies over Lake Erie

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   A large fireball lit up the skies over large portions the U.S. and Canada Monday evening. The American Meteor Society reported 436 sightings of the fireball, which was seen from northern Michigan ...

7. List of bolides - Wikipedia

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   A bolide: a very bright meteor of an apparent magnitude of −14 or brighter. Fireball over the Bering Sea viewed from space (18 December 2018). The following is a list of bolides and fireballs seen on Earth in recent times.

8. Novato meteorite - Wikipedia

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   The Novato meteorite is an ordinary chondrite which entered the Earth's atmosphere and broke up over Northern California at 19:44 Pacific Time on 17 October 2012. The falling bolide created a bright fireball and sonic booms and fragmented into smaller pieces as the intense friction of passing through the atmosphere heated it and absorbed its kinetic energy. [2]

9. Great balls of fire: Taurid meteor shower to light up sky ...

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   Get ready for a light show this weekend. It's not a show at the Ryman or at Bridgestone Arena, it's the Taurid meteor shower with its peak viewing on Nov. 4 and 5.