A meteor streaking over Alabama just after midnight last night lit up the southern sky. It was seen by many… here is the report from Bill Cooke, Lead, NASA Meteoroid Environment Office… Last night, at 12:19 AM Central Daylight Time, numerous eyewitnesses in the SouthEast reported seeing a very bright fireball, which was also detected […]
From Bill Cooke of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville…. Update on our visitor from the asteroid belt: 1) Eyewitness reports put the meteor in the same area as the doppler echo – good confirmation. Check out the clump of lines in the map NW of Cullman (along with the eyewitness accounts) at this […]
Good work by Chip Faust as we work to solve the mystery of the fireball seen by thousands across the Alabama sky around 5:30 p.m. yesterday. Last night, Bill Cooke of the Meteoroid Environments Office at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville wrote… “This was NOT a Taurid meteor; probably a random interloper from […]
Thanks to Bill Cooke from NASA in Huntsville.. the best meteor expert in the state. He tells us this about the 5:30 p.m. fireball that was seen over much of our state… “This was NOT a Taurid meteor; probably a random interloper from the asteroid belt. Doppler weather radar shows a meteoritic “rain”, indicating that […]
Social media lit up like a Christmas tree around 5:30 this evening as thousands across North and Central Alabama saw an extremely bright fireball rolling through the southern sky. Then, loud explosive type “booms” were heard… mostly around Smith Lake and adjacent areas. The Taurid meteor shower is in progress now… and is most likely […]
The Twitter/Facebook world is buzzing about a bright flash of light seen across the southern U.S. tonight around 8:50 p.m. CST. Many rumors are out there, but little fact. More likely a meteor, but we won’t know much more. I have Bill Cooke with NASA working on it. Did you see it? Hear anything>
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