News articles tagged with 'fireball'
Caught in the act: Fireballs light up Jupiter
— 10 Sep 2010 12:10 | AstronomyAmateur astronomers working with professional astronomers have spotted two fireballs lighting up Jupiter's atmosphere this summer, marking the first time Earth-based telescopes have…
Wisconsin fireball caught on tape
— 17 Apr 2010 10:53 | AstronomyA rooftop webcam at the University of Wisconsin-Madison captured the final seconds of a fireball's Wednesday, April 14 descent into the atmosphere. A fireball is a meteor, or 'shooting…
Western astronomers capture spectacular meteor footage and images
— 9 Oct 2009 10:27 | AstronomyAstronomers from The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada have released footage of a meteor that was approximately 100 times brighter than a full moon. The meteor lit up…
Nullarbor fireball cameras find rare meteorite
— 18 Sep 2009 14:14 | AstronomyUsing cameras which capture fireballs streaking across the night sky and sophisticated mathematics, a world-wide team of scientists have managed to find not only a tiny meteorite on…
How a cometary boulder lit up the Spanish sky
— 14 Feb 2009 09:50 | AstronomyLast July, people in Spain, Portugal and France watched the brilliant fireball produced by a boulder crashing down through the Earth's atmosphere. In a paper to be published in the…
Ten-ton rock responsible for fireball in Western Canada last week
— 26 Nov 2008 08:32 | Geology and palaeontologyInvestigation of the fireball that lit up the skies of Alberta and Saskatchewan on 20 November has determined that an asteroid fragment weighing approximately 10 tonnes entered the…
University of Western Ontario cameras capture 'fireball'
— 26 Oct 2008 16:06 | AstronomyFor the second time this year, The University of Western Ontario Meteor Group has captured incredibly rare video footage of a meteor falling to Earth. The team of astronomers suspects…
Scientist answers how Peruvian meteorite made it to Earth
— 16 Mar 2008 10:49 | AstronomyIt made news around the world: On 15 September 2007 an object hurtled through the sky and crashed into the Peruvian countryside. Scientists dispatched to the site near the village of…
Sandia supercomputers offer new explanation of Tunguska disaster
— 19 Dec 2007 15:30 | Geology and palaeontologyThe stunning amount of forest devastation at Tunguska a century ago in Siberia may have been caused by an asteroid only a fraction as large as previously published estimates, Sandia…
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