Near-Earth objects and close calls

A security camera captured the bright fireball that lit up the sky last night over #Bariloche, #Argentina 🇦🇷☄️

Large, bright meteors with a brightness greater than a stellar magnitude of -4, higher than that of the full moon, are called fireballs.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1700909018791706717

Later it was clarified that the video above is not from Argentina but from Turkey, however, there was an event in Argentina.

NOW | Huge Bolide lights up the night skies over Bariloche, #Argentina (September 09, 2023). #Meteor #Meteorite #Bolide #Metheoro #Climagram
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1700362473256140808

Darkness turns into daytime due to huge fireball over Chile and Argentina

In the early hours of this Saturday morning, a fireball surprised the inhabitants of the southern region of Chile and Argentina. At 00:36 hours, a meteor crossed the sky, briefly illuminating the nighttime darkness and tinting the firmament a vibrant shade of green.

This phenomenon was seen mainly in Bariloche, Argentina, but was also observed in Puerto Montt and Puerto Varas, in the Los Rios and Los Lagos regions of Chile. Security cameras were able to capture the precise moment when this meteor passed by, flooding the sky with its dazzling green light.

Surprisingly, some Internet users in Argentina stated that they even felt a slight tremor on the ground while this event was taking place. So far, there have been no reports of the meteor impacting the Earth's surface, leading to classify it as a meteor that disintegrated in the atmosphere.
https://twitter.com/x/status/1701065405404516352
 
A fireball was spotted over the skies of Northern Italy around 01:40 on 11 September. There were numerous reports in the Liguria region, specifically near the city of Savona.


Another fireball was seen in Northern Italy around 20:40 on 6 September. The meteor was sighted in multiple regions.

 
BlueKiwi said:
Is there a way to look at twitter posts without having an account ? I refuse to have any social media accounts.
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Yes, there is. You can use alternative Twitter front-ends like nitter.net. Just take the Twitter link and replace the twitter.com or x.com hostname with nitter.net. Mind you, that Twitter after the ownership transfer to Musk often breaks things often, and this is reflected by Nitter and friends catching up with delay. Recently, Twitter disabled browsing without an account on its iOS application. The way Nitter works, it exploits the same mechanism for Android, so if it's turned off there, there will be not much left but using bot accounts.

https://nitter.net/Rainmaker1973/status/1697333937016569984

What is also worth noting is that Nitter shields you from Twitter tracking via their own servers. So you blend in with your browsing history with other users from the point of view of Twitter. There are also no attempts by Nitter to create and sell your "shadow profile".

If you are using Android, the best app for anonymously browsing Twitter I've found is Squawker. You need to manually install it by downloading the APK from the "releases" page.

GitHub - j-fbriere/squawker: An open-source anonymous Twitter/X client
 
KS said:
Yes, there is. You can use alternative Twitter front-ends like nitter.net. Just take the Twitter link and replace the twitter.com or x.com hostname with nitter.net. Mind you, that Twitter after the ownership transfer to Musk often breaks things often, and this is reflected by Nitter and friends catching up with delay. Recently, Twitter disabled browsing without an account on its iOS application. The way Nitter works, it exploits the same mechanism for Android, so if it's turned off there, there will be not much left but using bot accounts.

https://nitter.net/Rainmaker1973/status/1697333937016569984

What is also worth noting is that Nitter shields you from Twitter tracking via their own servers. So you blend in with your browsing history with other users from the point of view of Twitter. There are also no attempts by Nitter to create and sell your "shadow profile".

If you are using Android, the best app for anonymously browsing Twitter I've found is Squawker. You need to manually install it by downloading the APK from the "releases" page.

GitHub - j-fbriere/squawker: An open-source anonymous Twitter/X client
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Thanks @KS :-) It seems to work fine for now using https://nitter.net/Rainmaker1973/status/xxx

When that stops working it looks like Waydroid will be the way to go (I use linux mint as my main operating system)
 
Contender for possible 1st significant bolide impact of the modern era?

Massive explosion last night at a warehouse in Tashkent, near the international airport. Video below shows something apparently smoking and on fire moving at high speed hitting the ground. Batteries for electric cars exploded at the airport warehouse nearby due to the "shockwave". See image below for evidence of burning projectile leaving a large and long smoke trail, milliseconds before impact.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1707493832672109044

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Joe said:
Contender for possible 1st significant bolide impact of the modern era?

Massive explosion last night at a warehouse in Tashkent, near the international airport. Video below shows something apparently smoking and on fire moving at high speed hitting the ground. Batteries for electric cars exploded at the airport warehouse nearby due to the "shockwave". See image below for evidence of burning projectile leaving a large and long smoke trail, milliseconds before impact.
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Could be. And since there seemed to be signs of fire at the location even before the impact (see screenshot below, taken cca 1s before the impact) it could be that the shockwave ignited the warehouse prior to actual impact.

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Mytja said:
Could be. And since there seemed to be signs of fire at the location even before the impact (see screenshot below, taken cca 1s before the impact) it could be that the shockwave ignited the warehouse prior to actual impact.
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Recent local news (Daryo - Uzbek Press) heads in the direction, as they have been told, of warehoused chemicals exploding.

To me, from that one video, it certainly appeared to be something at an angle fast coming in, although there was a proceeding fire. In the video below there are a few interviews, wherein one guy awakened and watched fires at the Wearhouse (filmed it he said), and then it exploded. When asked how long the fires had been burning before the exploring, he said 5 or 10 min.

With all the watching and videoing, there is bound to be more video of the moment of, yet have not found them.

Quite the event.

 
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