NASA Confirms a Fireball Was Spotted in Southern Mississippi

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29 Apr 2022, 7:05 pm

https://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/fireball-spotted-southern-mississippi-nasa-confirms-84393945

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29 Apr 2022, 7:08 pm

Cool stuff.

Interesting,
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At its peak, the fireball was more than 10 times brighter than a full moon, NASA said.
“What struck me as unusual was how few eyewitness reports we had given the skies were so clear,” said Cooke. “More people heard it than saw it.”
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29 Apr 2022, 7:11 pm

meteor burning up on entering earth's atmosphere?

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29 Apr 2022, 7:16 pm

cyberdad wrote:

meteor burning up on entering earth's atmosphere?

Yep. From NASA, https://blogs.nasa.gov/Watch_the_Skies/ ... rdly-seen/
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A fiery meteor streaked across the morning skies in southern Mississippi yesterday on April 27, 2022.
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29 Apr 2022, 7:20 pm

NASA called it a bolide, defined as a meteor that explodes in mid-air. Apparently that is what people heard.

I think more people heard than saw it because people stay indoors, especially in the hot south.

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30 Apr 2022, 7:52 am

Mosquitoes would be out.

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30 Apr 2022, 12:45 pm

But they are unlikely to call NASA.

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30 Apr 2022, 3:30 pm

/\lol

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30 Apr 2022, 4:40 pm

So what makes a rock explode? Uneven heating? Steam from water ice trapped in the rock?

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30 Apr 2022, 4:45 pm

The world is ending for sure now.

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30 Apr 2022, 4:58 pm

Fenn wrote:

So what makes a rock explode?

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December 11, 2017
Research shows why meteoroids explode before they reach Earth

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Our atmosphere is a better shield from meteoroids than researchers thought, according to a new paper published in Meteoritics & Planetary Science."

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/release ... earth.html

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