Many media outlets have featured some great coverage of the Perseid Meteor Shower, including AMSMeteors.org, but for readers who've yet to come up, here are a few great videos to have surfaced since the dazzling nighttime show. For a view of what star gazers in Texas saw, click here.
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3:29 PM Update: Texas may also have gotten a small glimpse. See the video from Montgomery County. Original story: People outside their homes in California and Nevada (as well as other parts of the US) were in for a terrifying light show late last night. A Star Wars-worthy space war appeared to be happening overhead. Bight flashes of light and a cluster of fiery space rocks breaking up in the night sky astonished witnesses, who shared photos and theories of an alien invasion online. It turns out the fireball was actually a Chinese rocket in its second stage of life. It is lucky that the fireball broke up in the atmosphere, so far no injuries or damage has been reported:
Although the event occurred on the 27th, there were similar fireball reports from California and Nevada a few nights prior, implying quite a bit of debris.
There is more Chinese space junk headed our way, unfortunately, and NASA cannot predict exactly when the Chinese Tiangong-1 cargo ship will be re-entering the Earth's atmosphere, but they suspect it will crash on Earth (much like this rocket) sometime this year or next. Perhaps asteroids are not the biggest threat to mankind.... perhaps it's man-made space junk? Discuss this story (do you think this was actually a rocket or something else?) and more in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter. If you saw this meteor, report your sighting.
7/15/16 Update: NASA spokesperson Daniel Huot has commented on this event, explaining that the feed was not cut on purpose but was simply lost, hence the blue screen. It's apparently not unusual for this to happen. As for the UFO? Huot didn't make any statements about it, leaving this case still very much unsolved. Original story Many videos of UFOs showing up on live NASA feeds from outer space pop up quite a bit. UFO hunter Streetcap1 found the latest, and his video showing a bright object descending near the ISS caused a stir online, even getting picked up by the Daily Mail. Check it out:
People are speculating online that this could be a meteor or space junk, perhaps even the ill-fated Chinese cargo ship Tiangong-1. NASA hasn't chimed in so far.
The Lunar Meteorite Hunters blog found a story from the Bangkok Post about a large rock, likely a meteorite, crashing through the roof of a home in Thailand this week.
Due to the charcoal crust of the rock and the loud explosion that preceded the crash, experts are pretty sure a meteor was to blame.
Fortunately nobody was injured. It was only last year that a man in India was killed by a falling meteorite. There were no videos or photos of meteors over Thailand from this evening, but there was an extremely bright fireball in the country earlier this year:
TexasUFOs has reported on many uncharacteristically large meteors in recent months, and in fact, it seems that every year the fireballs get bigger and brighter and deadlier. Case in point: a very large and bright meteor exploded over Arizona on June 2nd at around 4 am; NASA confirmed the fireball to be an asteroid, weighing two tons and measuring three meters wide: Meteor was so bright, it turned night into day:
After the meteor exploded, it left smokey white trails:
See videos of Arizona meteor explosion from different angles:
See more videos at LunarMeteoriteHunters.com.
No known meteor showers were expected for this evening, but the Earth did move in between Saturn and the Sun. Could Earth's new location have caused this collision, along with other extraordinary weather events happening on the planet right now?
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