It has been concluded that the recent fireball that was observed over Texas was not a piece of the recent collision of two satellites orbiting Earth. A rare occurrence, however the object was simply a natural meteor, also known as a fireball. Most meteors tend to be made of non-metallic minerals that break [...]
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Fireball – Not Part of a Meteor Shower
It is not a meteor shower? There is little major meteor shower activity until April, but recently over daytime skies in Texas (from Austin, to Houston and as far north as Plano) a fireball was seen plummeting toward Earth. It has yet to be determined if it was debris from a recent satellite collision [...]
Canada Meteor Hits Earth – Meteorites Found
November 28, 2008 – MeteorBlog.com
This is a confirmed report that the Canadian Meteor that lit up the Sakatchewan sky did in fact hit Earth. Meteorites have been found in an 8-mile vicinity of Battle River in Lloydminster, Canada. The nearly ten ton asteroid that entered our atmosphere and blazed across the night sky [...]
