#meteors — Public Fediverse posts

‘Thought it was a plane on fire’: rare meteor sightings stir delight in New Zealand
By Eva Corlett in Wellington

Footage shows North Island skies lighting up followed by a ‘huge boom’ days after a seperate fireball in South Island

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/29/new-zealand-meteor-fireball-sightings

#NewZealand #Meteors #Space #TheGuardian #EvaCorlettinWellington

‘Thought it was a plane on fire’: rare meteor sightings stir delight in New Zealand https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/29/new-zealand-meteor-fireball-sightings #NewZealand #Meteors #Space

‘Thought it was a plane on fire’: rare meteor sightings stir delight in New Zealand https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/29/new-zealand-meteor-fireball-sightings #NewZealand #Meteors #Space

Apparently there's a new meteor museum being put in place at UCLA. Apparently the third floor of the Geology Department..... thousands of meteors. #meteors #space

Apparently there's a new meteor museum being put in place at UCLA. Apparently the third floor of the Geology Department..... thousands of meteors. #meteors #space

Southern Delta Aquariids Meteor Shower 2026: Date, Time in IST & Where to Watch

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://in.mashable.com/science/111945/southern-delta-aquariids-meteor-shower-2026-date-time-in-ist-where-to-watch

Southern Delta Aquariids Meteor Shower 2026: Date, Time in IST & Where to Watch

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://in.mashable.com/science/111945/southern-delta-aquariids-meteor-shower-2026-date-time-in-ist-where-to-watch

Time to choose a side.
If there is chaos, I will be there. Turn the world to ruin!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNWscaKMOzo

https://word.undead-network.de/2026/06/29/time-to-choose-a-side/
#chaos #doom #meteors #music #psycho #psychobilly #real #ruin

Time to choose a side.
If there is chaos, I will be there. Turn the world to ruin!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNWscaKMOzo

https://word.undead-network.de/2026/06/29/time-to-choose-a-side/
#chaos #doom #meteors #music #psycho #psychobilly #real #ruin

Scientists find ‘smoking gun’ evidence of world’s oldest meteorite strike in Western Australia https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/24/worlds-oldest-meteorite-strike-pilbara-western-australia #Geology #WesternAustralia #Environment #AustraliaNews #Science #Geography #Meteors

Scientists find ‘smoking gun’ evidence of world’s oldest meteorite strike in Western Australia https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/24/worlds-oldest-meteorite-strike-pilbara-western-australia #Geology #WesternAustralia #Environment #AustraliaNews #Science #Geography #Meteors

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌠☄️ #HamiltonCollege astronomer Adam Lark breaks down #asteroids, #comets, #meteors, and #meteorites – where they form, how they light up our sky, and how to spot a real meteorite on the ground.

👉 https://theconversation.com/asteroid-or-comet-meteor-or-meteorite-how-to-identify-and-classify-the-rocks-you-see-streaking-through-the-sky-283958

#solarsystem #astronomy #science #stargazing #meteorshowers #nasa #kids #nightsky #observatory

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌠☄️ #HamiltonCollege astronomer Adam Lark breaks down #asteroids, #comets, #meteors, and #meteorites – where they form, how they light up our sky, and how to spot a real meteorite on the ground.

👉 https://theconversation.com/asteroid-or-comet-meteor-or-meteorite-how-to-identify-and-classify-the-rocks-you-see-streaking-through-the-sky-283958

#solarsystem #astronomy #science #stargazing #meteorshowers #nasa #kids #nightsky #observatory

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌠☄️ #HamiltonCollege astronomer Adam Lark breaks down #asteroids, #comets, #meteors, and #meteorites – where they form, how they light up our sky, and how to spot a real meteorite on the ground.

👉 https://theconversation.com/asteroid-or-comet-meteor-or-meteorite-how-to-identify-and-classify-the-rocks-you-see-streaking-through-the-sky-283958

#solarsystem #astronomy #science #stargazing #meteorshowers #nasa #kids #nightsky #observatory

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🌠☄️ #HamiltonCollege astronomer Adam Lark breaks down #asteroids, #comets, #meteors, and #meteorites – where they form, how they light up our sky, and how to spot a real meteorite on the ground.

👉 https://theconversation.com/asteroid-or-comet-meteor-or-meteorite-how-to-identify-and-classify-the-rocks-you-see-streaking-through-the-sky-283958

#solarsystem #astronomy #science #stargazing #meteorshowers #nasa #kids #nightsky #observatory

Geologists Went Looking For Gold. They Found Something Far Rarer. Via @sciencealert #Geology #RocksForJocks #EarthScience #Space #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️ #meteor #meteors

Geologists Went Looking For Go...

Watch: Moment a meteor creates sonic boom over Massachusetts. Via @bbc #SkyWatchers 🌃✨🌠 #meteor #meteors #MeteorShower #Space #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Watch: Moment a meteor creates...

Meteor explodes over Massachusetts, setting off loud booms. Via @guardian #SkyWatchers 🌃✨🌠 #meteor #meteors #Space #Astrophysics #OrbitalMechanics #Astronomy 🚀 🌌 ☄️ 🛰️

Meteor explodes over Massachus...

Cambia el cálculo de la #guerra: #Suecia envía #Gripens y #Meteors a #Ucrania

https://www.patreon.com/posts/cambia-el-de-la-159970686

A beefier, but slower fishy squisher
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/meteor-was-beefier-also-slower-first-thought

#meteors #boom #Boston

A beefier, but slower fishy squisher
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/meteor-was-beefier-also-slower-first-thought

#meteors #boom #Boston

Via @dr.starkid on Instagram:

Shooting stars and meteors

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZEB_yTAB9f/

#space #science #meteors #astronomy

Meteor over Massachusetts prompts reports of booms across US and Canada https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/01/meteor-massachusetts-sonic-boom #Meteors #Space #Massachusetts #Nasa #UsNews #Canada #Science

Meteor over Massachusetts prompts reports of booms across US and Canada https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/01/meteor-massachusetts-sonic-boom #Meteors #Space #Massachusetts #Nasa #UsNews #Canada #Science

NASA releases new terrifying details as meteor explodes near Massachusetts

NASA has now confirmed a meteor was travelling at 75,000 miles per hour (more than 120,000 km/h) at…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #GB #meteors #NASA #NOAA #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/614474/

NASA releases new terrifying details as meteor explodes near Massachusetts

NASA has now confirmed a meteor was travelling at 75,000 miles per hour (more than 120,000 km/h) at…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #GB #meteors #NASA #NOAA #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/614474/

Return (Возвращение) — Soviet Space Art Postcard, 1968.
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#Postcard #Space #Outerspace #Meteors #bostonmeteor #Russian #Ephemera #postards

Return (Возвращение) — Soviet Space Art Postcard, 1968.
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#Postcard #Space #Outerspace #Meteors #bostonmeteor #Russian #Ephemera #postards

BOOM!
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/boom

#Boston #meteors #MassachusettsBay

BOOM!
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/boom

#Boston #meteors #MassachusettsBay

Where Are All These #Meteors Coming From?
The frequency of fireballs in our planet’s skies seemed to grow in recent months. #NASA and other meteor experts can’t agree on what explains it.
Number of fireballs in 3 mo of 2026 was double what is usually reported to American #Meteor Society in the first quarter of other years.
This sort of activity can sometimes be attributed to a major #meteorshower. But none were scheduled during the fireball spike.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/science/march-fireballs-meteors-astronomy.html
https://archive.ph/nhnz1

Where Are All These #Meteors Coming From?
The frequency of fireballs in our planet’s skies seemed to grow in recent months. #NASA and other meteor experts can’t agree on what explains it.
Number of fireballs in 3 mo of 2026 was double what is usually reported to American #Meteor Society in the first quarter of other years.
This sort of activity can sometimes be attributed to a major #meteorshower. But none were scheduled during the fireball spike.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/science/march-fireballs-meteors-astronomy.html
https://archive.ph/nhnz1

Geminid Symphony Over La Palma’s Guardian of the Sky

This winter Milky Way panorama captures a sky filled with Geminid meteors above the Gran Telescopio Canarias, the largest optical telescope in the world, on the island of La Palma, Spain.

Photograph: Uroš Fink

#astrophotography
#MilkyWay
#Spain
#AltText
#Geminid
#meteors

#AngryAstronaut with the latest on #fireballs, #UFOs & other weirdness happening in our skies this month.

https://youtu.be/5b-Pna6LtNA?

#press #news #meteors #space

Starwatch: Lyrid meteor shower returns to the spring skies https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/20/starwatch-lyrid-meteor-shower-returns-to-the-spring-skies #Science #Astronomy #UkNews #Meteorology #Meteors

Artemis II Crew Witnessed Meteorites Hitting the Lunar Surface During Flyby https://petapixel.com/2026/04/09/artemis-ii-crew-witnessed-meteorites-hitting-the-lunar-surface-during-flyby/ #lunarsurface #micrometeor #meteorites #Artemis2 #artemis #meteors #Space #News #moon #NASA

Anomalous #fireballs have been smashing into our atmosphere since February.
Cadence up by 300%
Maybe this is why the ultra rich have built bunkers?

#space #meteors

@peterrenshaw

Thats a wonderful article.
Full of data.

Being the sceptic that I am, I have examined it thoughrly.
What I am finding is that the article is very careful NOT to say certain things.

Specifically, they've built a rigorous empirical case that the near-Earth meteoroid environment changed in early 2026, then systematically refused to speculate on what changed it. That refusal is the article.

I have reviewed the data and it appears that contrary to my earlier post, Earth HAS NOT passed through the area of the plane of the ecliptic #3iAtlas has passed through.

The article looks for a cause, then totally ignores one of the most profound events in this year, if not decade, the anomalous interstellar visitor.

1/2

#Meteors #fireballs #space

#meteors #astronomy

"Astronomers Say Recent Rash of Meteor Sightings ‘Warrants Serious Investigation’

About a dozen of the biggest fireballs spotted by hundreds of witnesses across the sky are all coming from the same place, according to a new trajectory analysis.

Astronomers are still searching for answers behind this year’s unusual wave of loud and fiery meteor sightings. Over 3,000 people witnessed a slowly disintegrating daytime fireball over Western Europe. Hundreds more reported the sight—and sonic boom—of a 7-ton, 6-foot (2-meter) asteroid screeching above Ohio. March alone has already seen over 40 meteor cases, with yet another ripping through the sky over Texas last Saturday, breaking the sound barrier, before a fragment crashed into a north Houston home and ricocheted around one bedroom like a pinball.

Now, a new analysis published by the American Meteor Society (AMS) on Wednesday has confirmed just how much of a statistical outlier this 2026 barrage has been—as well as early indications of where all these rocks in our solar system might have come from.

'After years of stable baseline activity, something appears to have shifted, according to AMS researcher Mike Hankey, who manages the society’s fireball reporting tools. 'The signal is consistent across multiple metrics.'

(. . .)

'What makes 2026 unique is the combination,' Hankey wrote. 'Prior high-sound years like 2021 and 2023 had elevated percentages but moderate event counts. In 2026, both the rate and the absolute count are high.'

(. . .)

In other words, while the total number of meteor cases has not deviated from researchers’ statistical expectations, the percentage of loud and well-documented cases did."

https://gizmodo.com/astronomers-say-recent-rash-of-meteor-sightings-warrants-serious-investigation-2000738638

#meteors #AI

"Has Something Changed in the Near-Earth Meteoroid Environment?

Yesterday I spent the day working with Claude AI (Opus 4.5) to dig into the AMS fireball database going back to 2011. The goal was to answer the question everyone’s been asking: is fireball activity actually up, or does it just feel that way?

The short answer: yes, it’s up — and the data tells us something interesting about why.

The number of large fireball events (those seen by 50+ witnesses) has roughly doubled in Q1 2026 compared to the five-year average. But the total number of fireballs is about normal. So it’s not that more rocks are hitting us — it’s that more of them are big enough to notice."

https://www.amsmeteors.org/2026/03/has-something-changed-in-the-near-earth-meteoroid-environment/

Suspected meteorite crashes into Houston home, officials say https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/22/meteorite-crashes-houston-home #Houston #Meteors #Space #UsNews

Visualising Perseid Meteor Shower in QGIS

https://videos.qwast-gis.com/w/kAGfJ88766vSZGcBPrw5CJ

Meteor seen across northern Ohio – video https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2026/mar/17/meteor-seen-across-northern-ohio-video #Meteors #Ohio #UsNews #Pennsylvania #Space #Nasa

Meteor over Ohio causes large boom heard as far away as Pennsylvania | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/17/ohio-meteor-pennsylvania

#Meteors