1) "When a blazing fireball from space exploded over Earth on July 25, scientists captured the first-ever seismic recordings of a meteor impact on ice in Greenland.
At approximately 8 p.m. local time on that day, residents of the town of Qaanaaq on Greenland's northwestern coast reported seeing a bright light in the sky and feeling the ground shake as a meteor combusted over the nearby Thule Air Base.
The first sign of the meteor was a brilliant flash in the sky over Greenland; the meteor was at its brightest at an altitude of approximately 27 above the ground, and it was traveling at nearly 54,000 mph.
When the meteor exploded over Thule Air Base, the U.S. Air Force's northernmost base, it was like a bomb going off. With a calculated impact energy of 2.1 kilotons of TNT....pinpointed the epicenter of the event near Humboldt glacier on the Greenland ice sheet, and seismic equipment picked up tremors from the impact location as far as 218 miles away."
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2) "...a fiery meteor about 40 times brighter than the full moon
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3) "Skywatchers across Western Australia caught sight of an incredible fireball on Tuesday night (Aug. 28), and many were lucky enough to capture the spectacle on film.
Meteorites can be tricky to differentiate from terrestrial rocks, but they tend to have a black coating and to feel a little heavier than normal rocks.
Studying meteorites can help scientists better understand the asteroids those rocks fall from, which in turn can help them evaluate the risks posed by larger meteors ― the kind that don't just light up the sky.
The fireball was a meteor about 1.6 feet across entering Earth's atmosphere at about 7:40 p.m. local time (7:40 a.m. EDT and 1140 GMT), a spokesperson from nearby Perth Observatory wrote in an email to Space.com."
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