Near-Earth objects and close calls

Ben said:
Here's an example of a probable fake video. The lighting looks all wrong, this would have been a big event seen by many people but no reports on IMO database.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1809892860558291140
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You can tell that it is fake
due to that the sky has been "masked" (with a darker sky), in order to get the meteor into the video. The artifacts along the horizon - like a thin, diffuse brighter line - reveals pretty clearly that the video has been tampered with.
 
Meteor passed over NYC, Statue of Liberty Tuesday: NASA
Users on social media across New York and New Jersey reported feeling a shaking or hearing a loud noise just after 11 a.m. It's unclear if the meteor was responsible for what residents felt.

A number of tri-state area residents reported feeling a shaking or hearing a loud boom Tuesday morning leading to quite the mystery.

NASA is estimating a meteor passed through the area between 10 a.m. and noon and would account for people saying they saw a fireball in the sky. NASA said simultaneous military activity in the area may account the shaking or boom residents felt.

The reports came on social media shortly after 11 a.m. with some users saying they felt shaking like an earthquake and another saying they thought they heard thunder. Some of the reports included parts of northern New Jersey, Brooklyn and Queens.

The American Meteor Society website does show around 20 fireball reports across New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, with additional reports in Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland, during that timeframe.

NASA said as a result of the reports, it was able to come up with a "very crude" determination of the trajectory of the meteor. The fireball was first sighted over the New York Harbor moving 34,000 miles per hour before it descended at a steep angle, NASA said. The space agency said it estimates the meteor passed over the Statue of Liberty before disintegrated 29 miles above midtown Manhattan.
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A "crude" determination of the meteor's track, provided by NASA
New York City's emergency management department said it was aware of the reports and was not aware of any impacts to the city.

No meteorites were produced by this fireball, according to NASA. The USGS website is not showing any earthquakes on its "latest earthquakes" maps, which shows recent earth quakes of a 2.5-magntitude or higher. A USGS spokesperson said it received reports of shaking in northeast New Jersey and Staten Island, but "An examination of the seismic data in the area showed no evidence of an earthquake. The USGS has no direct evidence of the source of the shaking."
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Meteor passed over NYC, Statue of Liberty Tuesday: NASA

Users on social media across New York and New Jersey reported feeling a shaking or hearing a loud noise just after 11 a.m. It’s unclear if the meteor was responsible for what residents felt.
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As Daichi Fujii (藤井大地) said, atmospheric observation conditions were faint, but sonics were observed during this daytime event in Japan.

This is more than likely related to the current Perseid meteor shower and the comet dust (and or debris) from Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle (an ancient wanderer of the heavens).

https://twitter.com/x/status/1820068442021503058
A fireball appeared today during the day! I filmed it moving across the southeastern sky from my home in Hiratsuka at 12:18:11 on August 4, 2024. The meteor is hard to see in the whitish sky, so I've significantly increased the contrast of the footage. In some areas of Chiba Prefecture, an explosion was reported a few minutes later, which may have been a meteorite.
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I live in Chosei Village, Chiba, and I was outside when I heard an explosion and felt vibrations, so I thought Mount Fuji had erupted

https://twitter.com/x/status/1820213558728401089
This is a video taken by the Asahi Shimbun Space Department's camera installed in Tsukiji, Tokyo. @Hokulani_mauna found it.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1820090292030373896
Tsukiji Live (8/4 normal speed)What? What? What?! I saw Fujii ( @dfuji1's post and rewound it...There it was! A meteor in the daytime! Top left Rainbow Bridge, Tsukiji Market Ruins, Shooting Stars and Night Sky Live Meteor shower and night sky LIVE from Tsukiji ... https:/youtube.com/live/vz1utezaA8c?si=J6-M7IZgqT45EPrB @YouTube

fireball.amsmeteors.org

American Meteor Society

We received one report about a fireball seen over Mato Grosso do Sul on Saturday, August 3rd 2024 around 03:05 UT.
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thorbiorn said:
Two fireballs entered the NASA list on June 18. One had a total impact energy of 1.2kt of TNT which is about 9 times more than the one over Portugal earlier in the month, (0.13kt of TNT) and the largest yet, this year.
One entry was over the Atlantic, the other over the Pacific Ocean.
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Since then, there has been the following additions to the list, but including the above two:
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The one over Brazil on July 13, the day of the attempt on Donald Trump, has this corresponding article on SOTT:
Meteor fireball over Brazil on July 13 - [Update: Calculated total impact energy 1.5 kt TNT]
From what I could find, the other new additions were over the oceans which explains a lack of publicly available footage.

The fireball over NYC on July 16, Meteor fireball over Connecticut and other states on July 16, did not enter the list, but it was on the 30th anniversary of the contact with the Cs which happens to also be 30 years since the first fragments of Shoemaker-Levy 9 impacted Jupiter:
 
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