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☆ Fact Check-Meteor-like flares seen over Dubai night sky were skydivers, not meteoroids or asteroids
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Meteor-like flares recorded soaring over the Dubai skyline on Dec. 11 were skydivers performing a stunt with flares attached to them, not meteoroids or asteroids, as has been claimed online. One Facebook user uploaded a video of glowing objects flying over the UAE city’s night sky on Sunday (here), along with the caption: “Numbers of meteorites falling in Earth. Every time planet Nibiru comes in our solar system it drags space dust, asteroids and meteorites with its tail. It shows sky divers performing a stunt with flare-like objects attached to them. The video shows skydivers performing a stunt involving flares, not meteors breaking up in the atmosphere over Dubai’s skyline.

☆ Meteor shower: Mark your calendar for the strongest one of 2022
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-13 | by ( Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The best chance to see the strongest meteor shower of the year is on its way this week. “If you had to pin one (meteor shower) as being the best of the year, year in and year out, it would be the Geminids,” said Robert Lunsford, fireball report coordinator for the society. The biggest and brightest Geminids meteors are often said to appear greenish in color. The moon’s Illumination has affected Geminids watching for the past two years, but the meteor shower is expected to occur around a new moon in 2023, creating perfect viewing conditions. To the casual observer, they’re a nice firework (display) — meteor showers are nature’s fireworks.”The next and final major annual meteor shower of 2022 will be the Ursids, which peak the evening of December 22, according to EarthSky.

☆ Videos captured a fireball flashing across the Toronto skyline before it struck Earth near Niagara Falls
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The object's impact on Earth was predicted, marking the sixth time in history that has occurred. The European Space Agency said such detection technology for small objects is improving. The fireball was captured in several videos, including one that showed it appearing to pass by the city's CN Tower. The European Space Agency said the event marked only the sixth time in history the impact of a space object with Earth was successfully predicted. Mike Hankey of the American Meteor Society told The New York Times its possible meteorites — debris from a space object — from Saturday's event could be discovered near Niagara Falls.

☆ Leonid meteor shower: Fast, bright meteors light up the night sky
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-17 | by ( Taylor Nicioli | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Known as some of the fastest meteors around, the Leonids blaze across the night sky annually during the month of November. Historically, they are considered to be one of the most impressive meteor showers on record, largely due to the meteor storm they form roughly every 33 years, causing thousands of meteors to rain down in the night sky. On Thursday night, the shower is expected to peak at 7 p.m. The Leonid meteor shower is active through December 2, alongside the tail end of the North Taurid meteor shower. Around their peak, sky gazers could potentially observe 10 to 15 meteors per hour.

☆ The Taurids meteor shower is expected to peak this weekend. Here's how to watch bright fireballs dazzle the night sky.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Northern Taurids meteor shower will be at its best overnight, between November 11 and 12. In the Southern Hemisphere, the meteor shower reached another peak in mid-October. The Southern and Northern Taurids' last peaks were in 2015. NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/Southwest Research InstituteIn 2005, a Taurids meteor struck the surface of the moon. During the peak, the American Meteor Society says you might see around five meteors per hour under clear, dark skies.

☆ ‘Flaming basketball’ that fell from the sky may have been a meteor that destroyed a California home
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Mirna Alsharif | Mirna Alsharif Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A possible meteor caught on video that “looks like a flaming basketball” falling from the sky may have been responsible for destroying a Northern California man’s home last week. Authorities are now investigating whether it was possibly a meteor that fell from the sky onto Porcita's home. "I can say that during the incident many people approached the fire department to say they saw a potential meteor fall in that area. The debris "hits the Earth’s atmosphere at 65,000 mph and burns up" creating what the agency calls the Taurid meteor shower. When shown a video of the possible meteorite that had fallen in the area, Porcita said it looked like a "flaming basketball."

☆ Tongan volcano eruption unleashed highest plume on record
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

The deafening eruption sent tsunami waves across the Pacific Ocean and produced an atmospheric wave that traveled several times around the world. The plume extended through the bottom two layers of the atmosphere, the troposphere and stratosphere, and about 4 miles (7 km) into the mesosphere. The plume was far from reaching the next atmospheric layer, the thermosphere, which starts at about 53 miles (85 km) above Earth's surface. A delineation called the Karman line, about 62 miles (100 km) above Earth's surface, is generally considered the boundary with space. Scientists were unable to use their standard temperature-based technique of measuring a volcanic plume because January's eruption passed the maximum height for which this method could be used.

NASA's InSight lander felt a powerful Mars quake. Then an orbiter took a picture of the meteor impact that caused it. The impact kicked up boulders of water ice, which will be crucial for future astronaut missions to Mars. "It was immediately clear that this is the biggest new crater we've ever seen," Ingrid Daubar, InSight impact science lead, said in a press briefing. An artist illustration of the InSight lander on Mars.

☆ Orionid Meteor Shower: When It Is and How to Watch the Peak
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-20 | by ( Aylin Woodward | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Orionids, an exceptionally bright and speedy meteor shower, will be visible all over the world early Friday. The Orionid meteor shower will peak in the predawn hours of Friday morning, giving sky-watchers a chance to see what the National Aeronautics and Space Administration astronomers call one of the most beautiful of the 30 or so annual meteor showers. The Orionids are known for producing exceptionally bright and speedy meteors. Some move up to 41 miles per second, or about 148,000 miles an hour, as they streak through and burn up in the atmosphere.

☆ The Orionid meteor shower peaks Thursday night. Here's how to watch colorful streaks and fireballs lighting up the sky.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Orionids meteor shower peaks late Thursday night and into early Friday morning. Colorful streaks and bursting fireballs make this one of the year's most beautiful meteor showers, according to NASA. A meteor streaks past the Canis Minor constellation in the night sky during the annual Orionid meteor shower in Ronda, near Malaga, Spain, on October 22, 2017. NASA recommends against using telescopes or binoculars to view a meteor shower, since those instruments show only a limited portion of the sky at a time. A stargazer waits for light clouds to clear to watch the Perseid meteor shower to begin near Bobcaygeon, Ontario, on August 12, 2015.

☆ NASA's InSight lander captured the 'bloop' sound of a meteor falling to Mars
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-19 | by ( Morgan Mcfall-Johnsen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

NASA shared the sound of a meteor falling to Mars, with photos of the impact craters, on Monday. The dwindling InSight lander has captured the acoustic and seismic noise of four meteor impacts. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of ArizonaThe details of the four Mars meteor strikes were published in a paper in Nature Geosciences on Monday. InSight is nearing the end of its lifeA solar array on NASA's InSight Mars lander in December 2018 (left) and June 2021 (right). NASA/JPL-CaltechThese are the first meteor impacts InSight has detected since it landed on Mars in 2018.

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