Meteorite Italy on friday 13th 2009

Whilst Fireball Mania was already a few hours underway in the US after ceveral reports from people in Kentucky. Reportedly, they had heard a loud bang and felt their house shake. At the same time, people there saw a bright fireball streaking througth the sky. Quite soon afther that, reports of possible falling debrie from the Februari 9th collision between Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 were replaced by factual comments by US Space Command, that said there had been no reentry over Kentucky on that day. It appeared to have been a natural meteorite entering Earth's atmosphere.

Earlier that day, a fireball also lit up the dark eveningsky in Italy. Multiple camera's captured this event, one of which was at the hands of astronomer Diego Valeri. He shot this footage in the town of Rieti. According to an article on http://spaceweather.com about this event, Italian scientists are plotting the trajectory of the fireball, which brightness was about 10 times of that of a full moon. A meteorite hunt will soon be underway, says Spaceweather.

"Are we experiencing a "fireball shower?" Not necessarily. Meteoroids hit Earth every day. The daily fireballs they produce, however, are seldom reported: 70% streak over uninhabited ocean; half appear in glaring daylight; many are missed because people are asleep, at work, or not looking up. This current spate of fireballs could simply be a few ordinary, random meteoroids that have attracted extraordinary attention because of the recent satellite collision. The jury is still out.", reports Spaceweather.com on february 17th on the as I write, the ongoing 2009 Fireball Mania.

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• meteorite
• friday
• 13th
• Italy
• fireball
• mania
• february
• 2009
• Kentucky
• space
• command

[Interrobang3]

That's a meteor, not a meteorite.

[leahg145]

8 of these but orange flew across my house last week and we took it to the sun newspaper , it was wierd because they are very rare and we saw 8:O

[Germanboy567]

kind of. but thats an asteroid not an alien. WE COULD HAVE BEEN SO SMOKED! if it didn't burn up.

[sjatjepatatje]

It looks like its turning back actualy?!

probably not but check it out...there is a curve!

[grandCentraldepot]

Cause its burning up and running into our atmosphere slowing down from 22,000 mph to 200+ I guess. Space debris just hit Dallas TX.

[sandsueb]

why is it slowing down..?