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The meteoroid entered at a record speed of 64,000 ± 1,600 mph (28.6 ± 0.7 km/s), the fastest fireball on record from which meteorites were later recovered. [9] It broke apart at an altitude of 157,000 ft (48 km), the highest breakup event on record resulting in meteorites on the ground.
It is the fastest annual meteor shower. [3] Larger Leonids which are about 10 mm (0.4 in) across have a mass of 0.5 g (0.02 oz) and are known for generating bright ( apparent magnitude −1.5) meteors. [ 7 ]
Fastest ever recorded: 484±32 km/h (301±20 mph) (3-second gust); calculated by a DOW (Doppler On Wheels) radar unit in the 1999 Bridge Creek–Moore tornado between Oklahoma City and Moore, Oklahoma, USA, 3 May 1999. Recently, the wind speeds were re-examined and adjusted to a maximum official wind speed of 321 mph (516.6 km/h).
A meteor air burst is a type of air burst in which ... Its detonation was also clearly recorded by the ... (180,000 km/h). Fastest collision in the CNEOS Fireball and ...
The list below shows all approaches by potentially hazardous objects (objects which can approach Earth within 0.05 astronomical units (AU)) without atmospheric contact which have been the closest ever observed at some point in time, from the discovery of the first such object to the record holder as of February 2025.
British inventor Richard Browning broke the record for fastest speed in a body-controlled jet engine powered suit on Nov. 14. ... Doorbell camera catches meteor streaking across sky.
The fireball, actually a particularly bright meteor streaking through the night sky, was recorded in 335 reports collected by the American Meteor Society. The reports stretched from Ontario ...
The Chelyabinsk meteor is thought to be the biggest natural space object to enter Earth's atmosphere since the 1908 Tunguska event, [23] [24] [25] and the only one confirmed to have resulted in many injuries, [26] [Note 1] although a small number of panic-related injuries occurred during the Great Madrid Meteor Event of 10 February 1896.