Mar 31 2009
Atlantic Coast Fireball
On Sunday evening, March 29th, it was reported that bright lights could be seen in the night sky, along the Atlantic Coast from Maryland down to North Carolina. Along with these bright lights, witnesses heard thunderous rumblings, even though there were not storms in the region. It was determined that it was mostly likely a meteorite-bolide, a random asteroid striking the Earth’s atmosphere and exploding along its flight path. A Russian spent rocket entered the Earth’s atmosphere on the evening of March 29th, however, this event took place two hours after the Atlantic Coast event and it occurred in the region near Taiwan. If you will recall, we had two encounters with asteroids ‘buzzing’ on by within the last month; Asteroid 2009 DD45 and Asteroid 2009 FH.
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There seems to be a great deal of asteroid activity lately. Maybe we always have quite few out there, but no one has ever pointed it out to us.
cindy23 - thanks for stopping on by - yes, there does seem to be an increase in asteroid events - it could also be that there is a news site that tracks this stuff and feeds it out, which is where I get my info - I get an alert when there is activity. They also have a tracking matrix where they report and catalog the space junk that is floating around.
Spaceweather.com is a great site for keeping up with stuff like this. They’re often the first place I hear about collisions.
Hi,
I have added you to The Country Cook blog roll.
Laurie