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Did An Asteroid End Up Hitting Earth And How Many Detected Strikes Have There Been This Year?
A small asteroid was detected early Tuesday over northern Siberia on its collision course with Earth. The European Space Agency confirmed the asteroid, measuring about 27 inches wide, was first ...
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A Bright 'Fireball' Lit Up the Sky This Week, But It Wasn't a Meteorite — Here's What Experts Say
NASA calls this kind of celestial occurrence a "fireball event" Getty Residents of Mexico City are pondering the out-of-nowhere blinding light in the sky. Around 3 a.m. Wednesday, April 16 ...
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Did you see it? A fireball was confirmed in the North Texas sky this week
A meteor occurs when a meteoroid -- a rock in space -- enters the Earth's atmosphere at a high speed and burns up, creating the fireball or "shooting star" effect, according to NASA.
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9 Delawareans, 340 others report seeing a fireball in the sky on Nov. 11. Did you?
The American Meteor Society received 349 reports of a fireball seen over Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia ...
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Daylight fireball meteor may have rattled parts of New York City and New Jersey, NASA says
No meteorites were produced by this event, according to the agency. Residents in parts of New York City and New Jersey were shaken by a loud boom Tuesday morning, with NASA officials saying it was ...
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A Fireball Near Mexico City Lit Up the Sky and the Internet
It streaked across Mexico’s predawn skies on Wednesday. By Aimee Ortiz For a few brief moments on Wednesday, a bright fireball lit up the predawn skies near Mexico City. The display awed ...