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The meteor was also referred to as the "Buzzard Coulee fireball", named after the area where searchers found the first fragments. [9] Buzzard Coulee is located approximately 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the Battle River valley. The first pieces of the rock were found by Ellen Milley, a University of Calgary Master's student on November 27, 2008.
It exploded tens of kilometers above the ground with the energy of 0.9 to 2.1 kilotons of TNT over a remote area of the Nubian Desert, causing a large fireball or bolide. [12] The Times reported that the meteor's "light was so intense that it lit up the sky like a full moon, and an airliner 1,400 km (870 mi) away reported seeing the bright flash."
2013 Russian meteor event – a 17-metre diameter, 10 000 ton [105] asteroid hit the atmosphere above Chelyabinsk, Russia at 18 km/s around 09:20 local time (03:20 UTC) 15 February 2013, producing a very bright fireball [106] in the morning sky. A number of small meteorite fragments have since been found nearby. [107]
People living along the East Coast might have seen a large meteor flash across the sky Sunday night. News 12 New Jersey even managed to capture video of it. WCAU reported people in Pennsylvania ...
A meteorite fall, also called an observed fall, is a meteorite collected after its fall from outer space was observed by people or automated devices. Any other meteorite is called a " find ". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] There are more than 1,300 documented falls listed in widely used databases, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] most of which have specimens in modern collections.
The UK Meteor Network said it received more than 200 reports, most of them from Scotland and Northern Ireland. ‘Stunning’ meteorite lights up UK night sky Skip to main content
Space rock produced streak of green light and sonic boom as it burned up over Ontario in 2022
Meteorite fall statistics are frequently used by planetary scientists to approximate the true flux of meteorites on Earth. Meteorite falls are those meteorites that are collected soon after being witnessed to fall, whereas meteorite finds are discovered at a later time. Although there are 30 times as much finds than falls, their raw ...