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Credit & Copyright: Robert Mikaelyan
Explanation:
The brilliant fireball meteor captured in this snapshot
was a startling visitor to Tuesday
evening's twilight skies over the city of Groningen.
In fact, sightings of the
meteor, as bright
as the Full Moon, were widely reported
throughout the Netherlands and Germany
at approximately 17:00 UT.
Accompanied by sonic booms and rumbling sounds, the meteor was seen
to break up into bright fragments, eventually leaving a
persistent
smoke-like trail.
Even though there are bright
fireball meteors
in planet Earth's atmosphere every day,
sightings of them are relatively
rare because they more often occur over oceans and uninhabited areas.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
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Publications with keywords: fireball - meteor
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See also:
- APOD: 2026 August 4 Á Curious Cometary Knots in the Helix Nebula
- APOD: 2026 August 3 Á Vaporizing Meteor Photobombs the Lacerta Nebula
- APOD: 2025 August 25 Á The Meteor and the Star Cluster
- APOD: 2025 August 6 Á Meteor before Galaxy
- Xuyi Station and the Fireball
- APOD: 2024 November 27 Á The Meteor and the Comet
- Meteor over the Bay of Naples