It was definitely moving fast. After a quick browse, only 2 other fireballs were moving at least that fast in the CNEOS catalog (https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/fireballs/).
It would be interesting to know its velocity components. Hopefully NASA will have and report that data.
42km/s is assuming you use all of Earth's orbital velocity (~30km/s) to your favor, a small deviation means 45km/s won't cut it. In terms of possible angles, it's a very low chance of an interstellar object.
All of these interesting space phenomena on film in the past 10 years and the most recent video of “alien activity” I saw came out in like 2005. I don’t think they’re here.
Is the rule of threes now fulfilled, or is there still more to come? I’m personally hoping for a daylight-visible supernova before the end of 2024.
I’ll mention that the population in my region appears to have stayed primed to watch astronomical phenomena since the eclipse. The beach I usually go to for viewing was busier the night of the auroras than some beach days in the summer.
It was already restored when Xi made himself premier for life. We’re in the Xi dynasty, but it looks like he chose an inauspicious time and the dynasty might not last long.
> The relative contribution of the main emission lines of iron, magnesium and sodium control the color of meteors, which emission (colour) predominates is related to the meteor's composition and velocity; fast meteors (>30 km per second) ionize magnesium and are green, moderate velocity meteors (30-15km per second) ionize iron and are blue, and slow moving meteors (<15km per second) ionize sodium and are yellow-orange.
I saw one like this 15 years ago. It was terrifying as I was alone in a forested area and I had no idea what it was at first. But then the sonic boom that lasted for minutes was even more disconcerting.
My first thought was similar like how incredible it would be to experience it in person.
Second thought was, if we see this in a movie it might come across as your average cgi scene (without any epic music or slow shots) and doesn't standout much.
But now that I know it is real, all these normal videos (compared to movie CGI) somehow makes them better, special and makes me want to be there which doesn't happen with a movie scene.
It was cloudy over me, so no bolide - I only saw slowly rising to 100% saturation brightness outside, during pitch-black night.
(sonic boom a couple of minutes later).
I gave it a 20% chance it was a nuke from Putin :D
It was astounding. It became day for a few seconds and then it broke off into a half dozen pieces or so. It left an incandescent trail behind.
It looked incredibly close. I had the feeling we were going to hear it coming down nearby in a few seconds, but it ended up in the Atlantic Ocean (actually not that far from us since we were by the ocean, but far enough).
So glad we were having drinks outside and I wasn't grabbing anything in the house!
Looking at the reaction of the girl in the video, I wondered... when you see something out of the ordinary like that, do you get the ape/lizard brain instinct of "oh shit the sky is on fire, better hide under a rock"?
I have seen enough meteors in video to recognise one in real life, but I wonder if for a split second the fight-flight instinct kicks in before reason prevails.
I saw this last night in Matosinhos - north Portugal outside of Porto.
This is a town that happened to have its biggest celebration of the year last night. It's called Festas do Senhor de Matosinhos.
The meteor made an appearance 15 minutes before midnight. The big fireworks were to go off at midnight. We all thought it was the weirdest firework we'd ever seen and only later realized it was a meteor.
It was truly huge. And lit the ground blue.
The really interesting part of this is that the festival is to celebrate a miracle in the town wherein a vision of Jesus appeared a long time ago.
I am not religious. But wow. Quite a coincidence.
Posting under a fresh account for location privacy, of course.
Maybe this sounds unbelievable but here is the program of the festival where you can see that the fireworks happen:
It's no coincidence believers see God in clouds or toasted bread.
Scientifically, this phenomenon is called confirmation bias. The bigger your belief, the more biased your conclusion. "Faith" is simply how religious people call their confirmation bias.
Time ago there was a running joke about YouTube comments sillyness. That section has improved a lot. Live chats, on the other hand...
During a recent volcano eruption someone was convinced that the rain would help stop the lava. I can't forget that. Oh, and the prophetic, blessings, I knew it, climate change, etc.
Yeah but no matter where it is, people are going to people and where there’s a lot of them, you’re also going to see two things: their superstitions and the knowledge problem in action.
It's fucking up my equation to continue investigating this, but, shouldn't this be a simple Poisson distribution (constant rate)? What model are you doing that has a trigonometric tan
Try not to handle any freshly fallen meteorites with your bare hands! Oils and microbes from your skin will slowly degrade the surface of a meteorite, dulling the fusion crust, contaminating the meteorite, and promoting rust. The contamination aspect is especially important for carbonaceous meteorites and other uncommon types.
Any space expert able to explain the very vivid blue colour please? I distinctly remember most meteors are either white or greenish tinted. Was it just the composition, or was it down to higher temperatures reached due to the higher speed?
I know this is completely irrational and very very unlikely to happen, but one of the greatest fears I have when flying is that the plane will be hit by something like this.
If I had to die in a plane crash, this seems like the least terrifying way to go out. Way better than hearing an ominous rumbling, scrambling for the oxygen masks…
https://news.sky.com/story/blue-fireball-flashes-in-night-sk...
Some beautiful images:
https://x.com/esaoperations/status/1792106330267799685
https://x.com/travolax/status/1792004429173916132
https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/1cvtfuw/b...
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