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Fireballs and iguanas? 7 weird things that have fallen from the sky

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Fireballs and iguanas? 7 weird things that have fallen from the sky

Space rocks crash to Earth carrying compounds that were formed billions of years ago. Spaceships perform fancy flips in the air but explode when they touch back down too quickly. And sometimes, iguanas fall from trees and land belly-up, frozen on the ground. 

Here’s a list of seven intriguing objects – and a few reptiles – that made headlines for falling from the sky.

Exploding, green fireball over the Tasman Sea 

(CSIRO)

Researchers captured an incredible video when a bright, green meteor zipped over the southern coast of Tasmania, Australia – though a bit unfortunately, the video is in black-and-white.

A research vessel called Investigator, which is operated by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, filmed the fireball as it burst through Earth’s atmosphere, crossed the sky and then disintegrated above the Tasman Sea.

People who witnessed the meteor first-hand said that it appeared green to the naked eye. 

Rainbow meteorite found in Costa Rica 

(Laurence Garvie/Center for Meteorite Studies/Arizona State University)

A rainbow-color space rock broke up over Costa Rica in 2019 and scattered debris between the villages of La Palmera and Aguas Zarcas. Now, ongoing studies hint that the fireball may contain the chemical building blocks of life.

The soft meteor originally broke off of a larger asteroid, which formed out of dust from an ancient nebula. That very nebula would later birth our Solar System. The rainbow meteor contains complex carbon compounds, which may include amino acids, which can come together to form proteins and molecules like DNA. 

The sudden explosion of a SpaceX prototype 

(SpaceX)

SpaceX’s Starship program launched a prototype called SN8 during a high-altitude test flight, and all went according to plan - other than the landing. The prototype took off from SpaceX’s facility Boca Chica, Texas and zoomed about 7.8 miles (12.5 kilometers) into the sky, performing complex aerial maneuvers on the way.

The vehicle then descended onto a designated landing mark on the ground, but it came in too fast and burst into flames. The explosion occurred just 6 minutes and 42 seconds after lift off. 

A meteorite in Michigan 

(Heck et al., Field Museum)

A meteorite crumbled up in the sky over Hamburg, Michigan, and the pieces fell down onto a frozen lake below. That was in January 2018; this year, after thoroughly analysing the space rock, scientists announced that the meteorite contained thousands of organic compounds that formed billions of years ago.

The compounds date back to the early days of our Solar System, meaning meteorites that crashed onto young Earth may have carried similar molecules. Back then, organic compounds from meteors could have been incorporated into primitive microbes, the team said, so studying the Michigan meteor can give us a glimpse into early life on the planet. 

Comet debris may have leveled an ancient Syrian village 

(Jennifer Rice/CometResearchGroup.org)

The prehistoric village of Abu Hureyra in northern Syria housed the first known farmers on Earth, but then some mysterious, fiery incident destroyed the town, leaving mostly remnants of thatched huts coated in carbon.

Among the wreckage, excavators also found glass spheres formed from melting soil, melted iron- and sulfur-rich samples and nanodiamonds.

Scientists recently examined these glassy materials more closely and found that they could only have formed at temperatures over 3,630 F (2,000 C). The team concluded that fragments from a passing comet likely exploded over the village, releasing an intense heatwave that scorched the village and the soil beneath it. 

Dinosaur-killing asteroid struck at the worst possible angle 

(Chase Stone)

The monstrous space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs slammed into Earth at such a steep angle that the dinos never really stood a chance. Scientists modeled the path of the asteroid and found that it struck at an angle of about 60 degrees above the horizon.

Compared with shallower impact angles, this trajectory caused the asteroid to spew about three times as much sulfur and carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to the model. The gas released by the impact triggered global climate change and killed 75 percent of all life on Earth, including all non-avian dinosaurs.  

Iguanas raining down on Floridians 

(Chase Stone)

“Cool temperatures with a chance of falling reptiles” – this is essentially the warning the National Weather Service sends out when the temperature falls below 40 degrees Fahrenheit (4.4 degrees Celsius) in southern Florida.

That’s because, when the weather gets cool, the iguanas that usually hang out in the treetops become too old to hold onto branches. As their metabolisms slow down, the lizards go stiff, fall to the ground and appear dead; but once the weather warms up, they snap back into action.

This article was originally published by Live Science. Read the original article here.

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Greta van Fleet – The Met – Philadelphia, PA – December 29, 2019

Greta Van Fleet Completes Triumphant Year, Wowing Crowd in Philly.

Greta Van Fleet hit the Met in Philadelphia for the first of two make-up shows to conclude a year of worldwide touring. The show made up for any delay and put an exclamation point on the band’s trajectory.

The new darlings of updated retro rock delivered their recent standard touring set to an energized, capacity Philly crowd. The venue – the newest major addition to the city’s flourishing music scene – was a fitting showcase for this band. The historic 3,500 person, opera-house-style theater (built 1908) on a stretch of gritty north Broad Street, opened last year with a performance by Bob Dylan, after a $56-million multi-year renovation, and provided both the scale and intimacy suited to this returning GVF rock party. (Greta last jolted the City of Brotherly Love at the old Electric Factory, now the Franklin Music Hall, in May 2018.)

Though the band has played to much larger live audiences in their recent travels, an operatic stage particularly fit the exuberant, high-wire vocal style of lead-man Josh Kiszka – the impish singer with a big presence and amazing range. Kiszka opts for high keys that harken to the famous hard- and art-rock bands of recent decades. Burdened and honored with the expectation of bringing back a song-writing style and urgent delivery of the top rock of the 70s, Greta Van Fleet steps through it all undaunted and with their own approach to a new version of the very power rock that they honor and build on.

Only the most casual listeners would deem them imitative, when the catchy riff-based rock songs they deliver feel so original and deftly crafted. But with scarcely a couple dozen tracks released to date, their fast-evolving arsenal cannot yet even be called a catalogue.

Strong Foundations + Hard Work

Concert crowds this year witnessed the second stage of the beginning of a meteoric rise of this group of guys barely in their 20’s. In fact, drummer Danny Wagner was celebrating his 21st birthday on this evening, and all assembled got to join in an a capella rendition of “Happy Birthday.”

Spoken and unspoken by the already loving fans of this band that has endeared itself so quickly to so many is the hope that these boys can weather the popularity that they have gained so quickly. By all appearances, though, brothers Josh, Jake, and Sammy Kiszka have the strength of family, and of a bond cast from playing together since they were kids. Danny has joined the brotherhood, and all seem to have a fallback strength coming as well from the natural world – with this foursome captured more often trekking through national parks, and preferring such outdoors outlets to images of them in rock-life party scenes.

Hey, any band must be down to earth that adapts its name from that of a lovely older lady (Gretna Van Fleet) from the guys’ own little hometown of Frankenmuth, Michigan. If GVF minded leaving that very quaint Christmas-y world and breaking up their holiday and well-earned rest leading to New Year’s, in order to finish 2019 in big, bad Philly, they sure didn’t show it. (Other two make-up dates due to Josh’s fall flu, were in Memphis and New Orleans just prior to the holidays.) Their explosive, romping play kept most of the crowd on its feet through the fast-paced 90+ minute show. They delivered their hits with the same fresh pride that has marked their live act since they broke big and suddenly onto the scene barely two years ago.

Within this serious, hard-working group of players, none puts out better than Jake Kiszka, a figure who is more than an up-and-coming six-stringer, instead a musician making an early bid toward a time-honored list of top rock guitarists. He wears the mantel of erstwhile big-time guitar slinger ably and gamely, bearing down on both big and delicate sounds. In the loud, extended, mostly instrumental “Black Flag Exposition,” which has only been presented live so far, the band gladly puts Jake on display, letting him step forward to demo his endurance, focus, grinding chops, and intensity.

That’s What a Rock Band Should Sound Like

Meanwhile during the evening, brother Sammy’s hands and feet danced naturally at the keyboards and his fingers flew across fretboard of his bass with a fluidity that’s completely natural. As with other foursomes of the past that have had the good fortune of a balance that helped them make history, no member of this one outshines or upstages the other.

History is something these dudes have on their side, particularly their knowledge of it. Great rock bands of the past were always deep students of the music that had preceded them and upon which the genre was built. Those now-veteran acts openly paid tribute to the recent past, even as they continued to re-invent it, and GVF follows the tradition, powering their work on “the fires we've been told,” as the Josh sings in “Black Smoke Rising.”

Add in artfully softer gears (“Age of Man”), an uplifting effect, and passionate lyrical commentary – including about love and the fate of the earth – and it’s all part of the recipe through which this band attracts rock fans of all ages. How rare to see a new band with this range of generations following them and pumping their fists in the air as one!

Some of the band’s most telling and encouraging passages came when they played into and extended their album tracks, thankfully stretching certain of them, as they did in their first encore (“Flower Power”). These moments made it even clearer that this is group of substantive players still in the act of becoming – a point punctuated near the end of the show by a thunderous, Bonham-esque, 10-minute-plus drum solo by Danny.

The best rocking bands of the last half-century or more have each delivered in their own unapologetic fashion just as GVF did at the Met, leaving a buzzed crowd wanting more. Rock must be celebratory and confident. And above all, it must have swagger, of which GVF has plenty to spare.

Russ Allen

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Photos by Bailey Allen © 2019

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Michigan meteor could help researchers understand near-Earth object threats

San Francisco CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2018 The bright flashes that lit up the evening skies near Detroit, Michigan earlier this year were not the only signs of the meteor that disintegrated in the atmosphere on 17 January 2018. The meteor explosion was also captured by infrasonic microphones and seismometers, offering a rare chance to compare these data with satellite and ground camera images. In a report in Seismological Research Full article

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NBA mock draft 2021: Who is rising and falling after NCAA tournament?

Here’s our latest projection of the first round of the NBA draft following the conclusion of the NCAA tournament.

The 2021 men’s NCAA tournament was worth the wait. A year after March Madness was canceled because of the pandemic, 68 teams came to Indianapolis for a bubble setup and gave us a tournament that featured upsets early and the two best teams in the country squaring off in the national championship game.

Now that the confetti has been cleared and the Baylor Bears are wearing men’s college basketball’s crown, it’s time to shift focus to the NBA draft.

The tournament was a mixed bag from a draft perspective. Tennessee’s early exit limited the amount of tape on potential lottery picks Keon Johnson and Jaden Springer, while possible top-10 selections like Arkansas’ Moses Moody and Michigan’s Franz Wagner didn’t play up to their potential despite deep runs by their teams.

The top of our draft board hasn’t changed since the start of the NCAA tournament, but there are a few prospects who have risen because of strong play in March. Baylor guard Davion Mitchell was one of the final cuts in our pre-tournament mock draft, and is now getting lottery hype. A second Baylor player, Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA tournament Jared Butler, has also been projected as a first round pick in our mocks all year.

The NBA draft lottery will be on June 22, and the draft is scheduled for July 29. With the season over for the majority of the prospects, here’s a look at our first round draft projection. These picks were made based on a combination of personal preference, conversations with people around the game, and potential team fit. We’ll have insight on some of the big themes in this year’s class after the table.

Cade Cunningham is still the No. 1 pick

Cunningham entered the season as our projected top pick, and he only reinforced his status as the best prospect in the draft during his freshman year at Oklahoma State. While the Cowboys had a disappointing exit against Oregon State in the Sweet 16, Cunningham put together an All-American year that showed how easily his game is going to translate to today’s NBA.

Listed at 6’8, 220 pounds, Cunningham projects as the lead engine of an NBA offense. He has the passing vision and burst to run pick-and-roll at a high level, and can put added pressure on the defense with his own downhill scoring ability. Cunningham’s three-point shooting was a supposed question mark coming into the season, but he hit 40 percent of his 155 attempts from behind the arc on the year. Teams won’t be able to go under a screen when Cunningham has the ball, which should open up the rest of his game. He also projects as a clear plus defensively, likely checking bigger forwards and having the size and strength to wall up at the rim.

Cunningham’s ability to initiate offense playing on the ball, space the floor off the ball, and defend at a high-level makes him the easiest prospect to build around in this draft. Getting the player like him is the hard part. Once you have one, building a good team becomes so much easier.

Evan Mobley has the edge on Suggs, but it may come down to team fit

We’ve been consistent with USC center Evan Mobley as our No. 2 prospect and Gonzaga guard Jalen Suggs as our No. 3 prospect all year. That remains the case after the tournament, but we won’t fault anyone who has the two prospects flipped. For several reasons, the choice at No. 2 could ultimately come down to whichever team lands the pick.

A team like the Orlando Magic, with former top-10 picks Mohamed Bamba and Wendell Carter Jr. at center, might opt for Suggs as a backcourt complement to Markelle Fultz. The Timberwolves would also have a fascinating decision if they land at No. 2. Suggs, a Minnesota native, would be an intriguing match next to Anthony Edwards in the backcourt. Mobley would be a fascinating fit next to Karl-Anthony Towns at power forward in the short-term and potentially replace him at center long-term if he eventually leaves in free agency. The Wolves really just want to land in the top-four so they don’t have to send their pick to the Golden State Warriors as part of the D’Angelo Russell trade.

Mobley’s combination of length, mobility, and quick decision-making makes him a tremendous two-way fit in the league long-term even if he isn’t wired to be a volume scorer. A case for Suggs over Mobley starts with the relative ease of finding competent big men for cheap. Suggs has some questions when it comes to ball handling and finishing, but so long as his three-point shooting holds up, he should be a tremendous complementary guard in the league for a long time.

We prefer Mobley to Suggs because the USC center feels like he has a greater chance at a truly special NBA career. You really can’t go wrong either way, though.

Who goes No. 6?

The top five of the draft feels set in stone more than three months before the selections will be made. Cunningham, Suggs, and Mobley will be joined by G League Ignite prospects Jalen Green and Jonathan Kuminga in some order. The big question headed into draft season is who goes No. 6.

It feels like there’s six prospects who have a chance to go sixth. In no particular order, those players are:

Jalen Johnson, F, Duke

Scottie Barnes, F, Florida State

Keon Johnson, G, Tennessee

Ziaire Williams, F, Stanford

Moses Moody, F, Arkansas

Franz Wagner, F, Michigan

None of those players helped their cases much in March. Barnes finished with 18 points, six rebounds, and nine assists total across three games in Florida State’s run to the Sweet 16. Wagner ended Michigan’s run to the Elite Eight with four points on 1-of-10 shooting and completely bricked a potential game-winning three. Moody put up disappointing numbers in Arkansas’ final two tournament games despite the team’s run to the Elite Eight. Keon Johnson and Tennessee were smoked in the first round by Oregon State. Jalen Johnson left Duke in February, and Williams didn’t qualify for the tournament with Stanford.

Our personal preference is for Moody at No. 6 because of his length (7’1 wingspan), floor spacing potential, and flashes of one-on-one scoring ability. Our guess is teams might favor Keon Johnson more for explosive athleticism and the impressive year-over-year growth in his skill set. Expect the debate of No. 6 to continue throughout the entire draft process.

Davion Mitchell is March Madness’ big winner

Mitchell started popping up on first round draft boards in the middle of the season. After an incredible run throughout March Madness, the Baylor star has locked in round one status and could end up as a lottery pick.

Mitchell will be a 23-year-old rookie coming off his redshirt junior season, but perhaps that will make him more appealing to a team that wants to fight for a playoff spot. The 6’2 guard has incredible burst with the ball in his hands and can burn any slow-footed big man to the hoop — just ask Drew Timme after the national title game. His three-point shooting took a wild leap this season — from 32 percent to 45 percent. Mitchell has also showcased tremendous point of attack defense, though his size will limit the types of players he can guard.

Scouts will wonder if Mitchell’s big shooting improvement is real considering he’s also a 64 percent free throw shooter. Mitchell’s inability to consistently get to the foul line is also concerning. He only attempted 64 free throws all season in 30 games.

Mitchell was one of our last cuts in our pre-tournament mock draft. Obviously that was a mistake. He will be expected to be selected in the 10-20 range heading into the pre-draft process.

Who will be this year’s Patrick Williams?

Last year, the Florida State freshman was projected as a late lottery pick throughout most of the draft process before going No. 4 overall in a surprising selection by the Chicago Bulls (it looks like a pretty good decision so far). Which player currently projected outside the top-10 has a chance to go on a meteoric rise come draft day?

Our first pick is Kai Jones, the 6’11 Texas big man with freaky flashes of skill and athleticism. Jones only averaged 8.8 points and 4.8 rebounds this year in a bench role, but he led the Longhorns in all-in-one impact stat BPM. You only need to see the highlights of him flying down the floor for a transition finish or hitting a step-back three to see why his package of tools is so tantalizing.

Giddey is another player who started rising up boards midway through the season because of his size and production playing in the NBL. The 18-year-old Australian is a 6’8 guard who has put up better numbers than LaMelo Ball did last year in the same league and same age. Giddey is an unimpressive athlete who will likely struggle getting past the first line of defense while also facing questions defensively. Still, his size and offensive package of skills could entice a team to gamble on him earlier than expected if they think his recent stretch of hot shooting is real.

We’ll answer questions on this mock draft in the comments

Leave a comment or question below and we’ll get back to you. Draft season is officially here.

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Opening Bell: March 19th, 2019

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The citizens of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula can sleep a little easier tonight knowing that the serial ass-grabber terrorizing them has been caught.

South Carolina is full of shithead county sheriffs. 

Six men with ties to the Ferguson protests have ended up dead. Coincidence, or something sinister?

METEOR EXPLOSION!

DNA evidence may have finally identified Jack the Ripper.

A racing pigeon named “Armando” sold for a whole boatload of cash.

“Egg Boy” continues to be rad.

Scientists at UC-Berkley have restored sight to blind mice using gene therapy.

“The Saudi hit squad linked to the Khashoggi murder reportedly asked for a performance-related bonus for torturing and kidnapping so many people.” 

The mayor of Fair Haven, Vermont is a goat.

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<b>Michigan</b> Meteor: Here Are Best Videos In Case You Missed It

ROYAL OAK, MI — Residents throughout Royal Oak and neighboring communities reported seeing a meteor light up the sky on Tuesday night followed by a loud boom or explosion sound. The meteor could reportedly be seen as far away as Toledo, Ohio. Below is a roundup of videos from across the ... from Google Alert - birmingham michigan http://ift.tt/2DJfIt3

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The Most Watched Space Videos of 2018!

We've got the solar system under surveillance, and it sure does pay off. Cameras deployed on Earth and in space captured some crazy amazing video, ranging from meteors exploding in the atmosphere, to a Tesla car making its way out to Mars, to extraterrestrial weather events in gas giant planets.

1) Super Blue Blood Moon Eclipse of 2018

This year saw an extra-special lunar eclipse that coincided with a Blue Moon– the second full moon in a single month. Combined with a close approach between the Earth and the moon, this meant the lunar eclipse of Jan. 31 was a spectacular sight for millions of observers in North America. While many U.S. viewers were clouded out, you can see in the video here that a lot of folks still got to check out the amazing celestial view. The next total lunar eclipse in North America will happen on Jan. 21, 2019.    

2) SpaceX's Starman in space

No words can describe the awesomeness of the first Falcon Heavy rocket launch by SpaceX, which on Feb. 6 hefted a Tesla Roadster (complete with a dummy nicknamed "Starman") into low Earth orbit. Within short order, the driving astronaut suited mannequin was on its way to Mars orbit – producing a sequence of stunning shots that you can see in a short video.     The Falcon Heavy launch met most major objectives, with the two booster rockets touching down safely for future launches; the main core stage unfortunately didn't stick the landing.

3) Soyuz launch fails

An American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut had a surprising roller-coaster ride to space on Oct. 11, when a deformed sensor on their Soyuz rocket failed en route to space, as you can see in this launch video. Within minutes, a routine flight turned into an abort – but the Soyuz spacecraft (the spacecraft has the same name as the rocket) performed flawlessly and parachuted the two crew members of Expedition 57 back to Earth. A few weeks later, Russian space officials released a rocket booster view showing what happened during flight. Engineers addressed the issue and Expedition 58 made a flawless launch from Kazakhstan Dec. 3.

4) Chinese Space Station Falls to Earth

China's Tiangong-1 space laboratory safely burned up in the atmosphere April 1 over the Pacific Ocean, generating interest from satellite watchers around the world. Today's high-tech radar systems can track incoming space objects with high precision, allowing planners to better predict where the re-entering space station was going to fall. Forecasting is a challenge, however, because where an object falls depends on the nature of the Earth's atmosphere, how the object is tumbling, and what the object is made of.  

5) 4 Supernovas In One Blow!

In several star-shattering kablooms, you can see stars of several types meeting their ultimate demise in this cool NASA video. The data, based on NASA's Kepler space telescope (which ran out of fuel late this year), also showed a new type of star explosion different from any other supernova ever charted. The venerable telescope spotted the energy wave from a star smashing into a nearby dust and gas shell, converting most of the kinetic energy into a brilliant flash of light.

6) Cyclones on Jupiter

While Jupiter's radiation environment would make it a tough destination for astronauts, the specially shielded Juno spacecraft provided an awesome view that let us "fly" over the massive planet's poles. Swirling below are huge polar cyclones, ranging in diameter from 2,500 miles to 2,900 miles (4,000 to 4,600 kilometers) – nearly twice the equivalent length of the United States. Making the view all the cooler, before Juno we barely knew what was happening at Jupiter's poles. This makes Juno a valuable asset to better predict the gas giant's weather patterns.

7) Asteroids and Fireballs!

It's been a spectacular year for sky shows, with many asteroid flybys and exploding meteors captured in the camera viewfinder. (A meteor is an object entering the Earth's atmosphere, while an asteroid is a space rock.) In April, a newly discovered space rock slipped between the Earth and the moon; while the flyby was harmless, astronomers reminded us it was similar in size to the object that exploded over Tunguska, Russia more than 100 years ago, flattening the forest. Also in 2018, two fireballs from separate meteors exploded over Michigan and Australia; while they were small and caused no damage, the events sparked intense interest in astronomy and potential meteorites in those areas.

8) Moons of Mars Seen From Orbit

A cute video returned from Mars in February appeared to show the moons Phobos and Deimos dancing in the dark, but the real story is more clever illusion. NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft took several images during a 17-second time span, and the visible motion is due to changes in the viewpoint of Odyssey's Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera. While we were wowed by the images, THEMIS took pictures in the thermal-infrared wavelength – a common band of light used to better learn the nature of an object's composition.

9) Auroras on Saturn!

There's no longer a spacecraft at Saturn since Cassini died in 2017, but the Hubble Space Telescope made some amazing observations from its perch in Earth orbit. The venerable observatory captured ultraviolet auroras circling the north pole during and after the summer solstice in that region. The ultimate goal is to better understand how these auroras change during time. Earth gets auroras as well, when the sun's particles interact with oxygen and nitrogen far up in our atmosphere, but at Saturn its gas molecules are mostly made up of hydrogen.

10) Rovers on an Asteroid!

In scenes that feel like a futuristic video game, the Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft deployed hopping rovers on asteroid Ryugu in September. The little world's weak gravity allowed them to bounce and move about quite easily, providing a valuable close-up view of the asteroid's pebbles and regolith composition. In 2019, Hayabusa2 should start touchdowns of its own to pick up valuable asteroid dust; next will be a daring return back to Earth, where scientists will analyze its precious load.   Read the full article

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Hundreds of People Shaken After Another Mysterious 'Boom' Sound Rocks Pennsylvania

Mysterious sounds heard all over the world have researchers completely stumped. They've been happening for quite some time, with the latest example coming from Pennsylvania, with multiple townships being affected by these mysterious sounds, feeling their vibration and waking them up in the middle of the night. It wasn't long ago when residents in Alabama were left baffled when a loud boom resounded across much of the state.

Speaking to ABC 3340, Bill Cooke, head of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, said that the Alabama boom could have been caused by a supersonic aircraft, a ground explosion, or a bolide – a large meteor that explodes in the atmosphere. The noise was picked up by the US Geological Survey, where data suggests that the boom wasn't the result of an earthquake. The boom may have been caused by a military flight of a supersonic jet, although the US Air Force did not confirm it.

The day after the boom in Alabama, a similar noise was heard in Idaho.This year alone, similar noises have been reported 64 times this year, in locations including Michigan, Lapland, St Ives, Swansea and Yorkshire.

When the one in Alabama happened last year, the Birmingham National Weather Service tweeted,

On November 17, 2017 a boom in Lapland was caused by a fireball from a falling meteor. Footage showed a bright light in the sky over Inari in Finland – but the flash was so intense it was also seen in Russia's Kola Peninsula and in northern Norway. Stargazers reported seeing the sky 'light up like day' for a few seconds alongside a loud noise as the space rock plummeted towards Earth.

These are just a few of multiple examples. To see a list of mysterious booms that happened in 2017, you can click here and scroll towards the end of the article. They've happened on many occasions and nobody really knows what they are.

Below is some mainstream media coverage of the most recent episode in Pennsylvania from secureteam10, a youtube channel that covers this type of strange phenomena.

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Drivers Capture Dash Cam Footage Of Meteor Exploding Over Michigan

On January 16, residents of Michigan watched in astonishment as night turned to day for a couple of seconds. A meteor had exploded over the state, lighting up the sky and issuing a loud, alarming boom. According to the U.S. Geologic Survey, the explosion registered as a magnitude 2.0 earthquake on the Richter scale. NASA says the meteor was about six feet in diameter when it shattered into…

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That giant fireball in Michigan last night did not trigger an earthquake

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That giant fireball in Michigan last night did not trigger an earthquake

It brightened the cold Michigan night in an instant: a brilliant burst of light streaking across the sky, captured on security footage and dashboard cameras across part of the state.

Then the National Weather Service’s Detroit office tweeted out confirmation that the rock speeding through our atmosphere had caused an earthquake.

Not quite. The object did transfer some energy to the ground (either by smacking into it, or by sending the equivalent of a sonic boom through the air). But while the effect was enough to rattle some shelves and buildings, there was not nearly enough energy transfer to cause or trigger an earthquake—not even a small one.

What the USGS had actually confirmed was that their instruments picked up tremors roughly equivalent to what they would register during a magnitude 2.0 earthquake. Seismometers are designed to detect vibrations in the ground coming from areas—usually deep in the planet—where the brittle shell of rock that we all stand on abruptly breaks.

Ruptures in the the earth’s crust are powerful enough to make the ground tremble, registering on seismometer networks in standardized ways. But a meteor speeding through the air and a sudden slip of an underground rock face are very different, even if they show up on a computer screen in the same way.

Just think of all the things that seismic networks have captured over the years. We’ve seen excited fans, explosive ammunition dumps and, of course, bears show up in a similar fashion.

Induced earthquakes do exist, many of which are linked to wastewater injection sites across the country, but the meteor (or meteorite) did not induce an earthquake. But did the falling object hit the ground with the force of a small earthquake?

Nope.

“You can’t directly compare a meteor to the size of an earthquake. The comparison is different because the source is different—one is coming from the air and one is coming from the ground,” says Julie Dutton, a geophysicist with the United States Geological Survey. “When we see the energy transfer on our instruments people think, oh, it hit the ground with this force, but that’s not necessarily true. A lot of that energy is in the air. And in this case, we don’t even know if it hit the ground.”

The NWS in Detroit clarified their statement on Wednesday:

But even if it didn’t cause an earthquake, Tuesday evening’s fireball was still an amazing event—especially for the people who got to see it.

“It is a rare occurance to actually see these on our instruments,” Dutton says. Five years ago, the meteor that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia also registered on seismic networks as a magnitude 2.7 earthquake, but accounts before that are pretty rare.

NASA says that the meteor was moving at a rather sedate speed of 28,000 miles per hour. It was at least a yard across, though some estimates put it larger, at around 6 feet.

Eyewitness reports on the American Meteor Society website have already established an estimated trajectory of the fireball, and there are certain to be many people out looking for parts of the space rock, if it made it to the ground.

If you missed this spontaneous light show, don’t worry. There will be plenty of other meteor showers. According to NASA, about 45 tons of “meteoritic material” falls into our planet’s atmosphere every day. They’re not all big beautiful fireballs like the one we saw last night, but take a chance and look up every once in a while. You just might see something that rocks your world.

Written By Mary Beth Griggs

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Be taught the unbelievable moment a ‘uncommon’ meteor burst in each place in the evening sky over Michigan

A meteor flared over Michigan on Jan. 16, exploding with considerable energy to sign in because the equivalent of a 2.0 magnitude earthquake, the U.S. Geological Stare showed. (Taylor Turner/The Washington Publish)

Impart and lightning?

Some number of midair explosion?

An enemy airstrike?

With a rumble that shook the Earth, a vibrant burst of light illuminated the sky over southeastern…

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(Reuters) - A bright meteor briefly swept across the sky over parts of the U.S. Midwest and Canada on Tuesday, weather and geology agencies said, and then caused a powerful explosion that rattled homes and onlookers.

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(Reuters) - A bright meteor briefly swept across the sky over parts of the U.S. Midwest and Canada on Tuesday, weather and geology agencies said, and then caused a powerful explosion that rattled homes and onlookers.

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Aliens, apocalypse, lightning? ... No, just a meteor rocking Michigan

Aliens, apocalypse, lightning? … No, just a meteor rocking Michigan

REUTERS: A bright meteor briefly swept across the sky over parts of the U.S. Midwest and Canada on Tuesday, weather and geology agencies said, and then caused a powerful explosion that rattled homes and onlookers.

The meteor was seen across the region in places such as Ohio, Michigan and Ontario at about 8 p.m. local time and registered a 2.0 magnitude tremor about 4 miles (7 km) east of Saint…