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A meteor air burst is a type of air burst in which a meteoroid explodes after entering a planetary body's atmosphere. This fate leads them to be called fireballs or bolides , with the brightest air bursts known as superbolides .
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The Leonids meteor shower began on Nov. 3, and peak activity happens overnight on Sunday, Nov. 17 into Monday, Nov. 18. Leonids come from the Comet Tempel-Tuttle.
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The meteor air burst was caused by a random meteoroid, not a member of the Lyrids shower. [15] The bolide was so bright that witnesses were seeing spots afterward. [ 16 ] The falling meteorites were detected by weather radar over an area centered on the Sutter's Mill site in Coloma, between Auburn, California , and Placerville, California .
The Odessa Meteor Crater is a meteorite crater in the southwestern part of Ector County, southwest of the city of Odessa of West Texas, United States. It is accessible approximately 3 mi (5 km) south of Interstate 20 at Exit 108 (Moss Road). [ 1 ]
NASA suggested that the slow speed of Sunday night’s meteor means it was likely that a small piece of an asteroid produced the fireball. Video catches fiery meteor shooting across the night sky ...
Meteosat 8/EUMETSAT infrared image of the explosion Animation of 2008 TC3's orbit 2008 TC3 · Sun · Earth The meteor entered Earth's atmosphere above northern Sudan at 02:46 UTC (05:46 local time) on October 7, 2008, with a velocity of 12.8 kilometers per second (29,000 mph) at an azimuth of 281 degrees and an altitude angle of 19 degrees to ...