News tagged with fireball
Mysterious light over Southwest likely a fireball
A brilliant light seen darting across the Southwest night sky was most likely a piece of asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere, a NASA scientist said Thursday.
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Sep 15, 2011 |
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High confidence meteorite fall in Northeast Ohio
On August 8 at 1:22 Eastern Daylight Time, 4 all sky cameras belonging to the Southern Ontario Meteor Network detected a fireball entering the atmosphere 54 miles above Lake Erie (80.944 W, 41.945 N), moving ...
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Aug 18, 2011 |
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Spring is fireball season
What are the signs of spring? They are as familiar as a blooming Daffodil, a songbird at dawn, a surprising shaft of warmth from the afternoon sun. And, oh yes, don't forget the meteors.
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Apr 01, 2011 |
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Some UFOs may be explained as ball lighting
(PhysOrg.com) -- An Australian scientist studying photographs of fireballs, UFO sightings and a report of a strange green light in the sky suggests some UFOs may be ball lightning caused by fireball meteors.
Dec 02, 2010 |
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Purdue unveils 'Impact: Earth!' asteroid impact effects calculator
(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University on Wednesday (Nov. 3) unveiled ''Impact: Earth!'' a new website that allows anyone to calculate the potential damage a comet or asteroid would cause if it hit the Earth.
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Nov 03, 2010 |
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Scientists on the look-out for a 'Hartley-id' Meteor Shower
This month, Comet Hartley 2 has put on a good show for backyard astronomers. The comet's vivid green atmosphere and auburn tail of dust look great through small telescopes, and NASA's Deep Impact/EPOXI probe i ...
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Oct 27, 2010 |
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Wisconsin Fireball Caught On Tape
(PhysOrg.com) -- A rooftop webcam at the University of Wisconsin-Madison captured the final seconds of a fireball's Wednesday, April 14 descent into the atmosphere. A fireball is a meteor, or "shooting star," ...
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Apr 16, 2010 |
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Fireball Streaks Through Night Sky of Western Alabama (Video)
Vigilant sky watchers were treated to a fiery surprise in western Alabama sky on Friday, March 19.
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Mar 23, 2010 |
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How a cometary boulder lit up the Spanish sky
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last July, people in Spain, Portugal and France watched the brilliant fireball produced by a boulder crashing down through the Earth’s atmosphere. In a paper to be published in the journal ...
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Feb 13, 2009 |
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Fireball
A fireball is a somewhat spherical mass of fire, such that is caused by an explosion or a firestorm.
It may also refer to:
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Wikipedia.
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