Smoke trail from a bright fireball, whose sightings were centered on Arizona, via David Adkins via American Meteor Society.
The American Meteor Society (AMS) says it’s received over 200 reports so far of a bright fireball over Arizona, early in the morning of June 2, 2016. The bright meteor – a bit of debris from space – sizzled through Earth’s atmosphere at around 3:57 a.m. MST (10:57 UTC). It’s been mostly people in Arizona reporting the event, but AMS says that witnesses viewed it from Utah, New Mexico, California, Texas and Nevada as well.
A fireball is another name for a bright meteor. Fireballs are common, if you consider Earth as a whole. We hear reports of them every few days, from somewhere. But seeing one over your location is special!
The video below is a compilation of sightings of the June 2 fireball (profanity alert at around 00:25 seconds).
Despite the early hour, many apparently saw the meteor, and many more saw the smoke trail it left behind.
In the northeastern sky, here's the trail from what seemed to be a meteor. http://pic.twitter.com/tQIaOpBGLI
— Arizona DOT (@ArizonaDOT) June 2, 2016
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Smoke trail from a bright fireball, whose sightings were centered on Arizona, via David Adkins via American Meteor Society.
The American Meteor Society (AMS) says it’s received over 200 reports so far of a bright fireball over Arizona, early in the morning of June 2, 2016. The bright meteor – a bit of debris from space – sizzled through Earth’s atmosphere at around 3:57 a.m. MST (10:57 UTC). It’s been mostly people in Arizona reporting the event, but AMS says that witnesses viewed it from Utah, New Mexico, California, Texas and Nevada as well.
A fireball is another name for a bright meteor. Fireballs are common, if you consider Earth as a whole. We hear reports of them every few days, from somewhere. But seeing one over your location is special!
The video below is a compilation of sightings of the June 2 fireball (profanity alert at around 00:25 seconds).
Despite the early hour, many apparently saw the meteor, and many more saw the smoke trail it left behind.
In the northeastern sky, here's the trail from what seemed to be a meteor. http://pic.twitter.com/tQIaOpBGLI
— Arizona DOT (@ArizonaDOT) June 2, 2016
from EarthSky http://ift.tt/1U0oQNf
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