Large Meteor Flashes Over El Paso - Day After Turkey Fireball - See Videos

• When: May 7th, 2016
• Where: West Texas, including El Paso
• What: Bright fireball descends and flashes - most likely a meteor and could be leftover from Eta Aquarid meteor shower that occurred days previous

Did the Eta Aquarid meteor shower male a late appearance in Texas? Astronomers prepared star gazers to witness falling stars May 5th through the 6th, but according to Lunar Meteorite Hunters, it was on the 7th that a giant fireball flashed over West Texas. Which is strange, considering this is the second time in recent weeks that sightings of  meteors have occurred on slightly different days than astronomers predicted.

Meteor causes bright flash over Turkey on May 7th (video below)

Large meteor appears over Texas on May 9th (video below)

Check out the screenshots and video of the West Texas fireball, which was captured by a NASA sky cam:

Start location at 30.855 N, 104.405 W at an altitude of 106 km
End location (from our cameras - cut off in the New Mexico Skies station) at 30.909 N, 104.735 W at an altitude of 77 km
Average speed of 30 +/- 5 km/s
Radiant coordinates: RA - 265.0 +/- 0.5 deg, Dec - +13.0 +/- 2.0 deg

And compare that to sky cam footage from South Turkey from around the 6th of May:

Before fireball

Fireball appears - bright flash in sky

Were you lucky enough to spot this fireball? Do you have photos or videos or accounts to share? Please do!

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