Near-Earth objects and close calls

[Gaby]

Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are space rocks larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU (7479894 km).

On March 4, 2026 there were 2349 potentially hazardous asteroids.

On March 4, 2016 there were 1682 potentially hazardous asteroids.

On 4 Mar 2006 there were 776 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids.

Source: SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids

 

[Eboard10]

A meteor was seen across the skies of Germany and the Netherlands shortly before 7pm this evening.

Here's a couple of few video clips posted on X, the first one taken in Germany and the second one in Rotterdam, NL.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2030718770864423119

https://twitter.com/x/status/2030711375081656612

 

[Oxajil]

A meteor was seen across the skies of Germany and the Netherlands shortly before 7pm this evening.

Here's a couple of few video clips posted on X, the first one taken in Germany and the second one in Rotterdam, NL.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2030718770864423119

https://twitter.com/x/status/2030711375081656612

Dutch media reports that fragments damaged some roofs and houses in Germany:

(AI translation)

Fragments of a meteorite cause damage to roofs and houses in Germany

Fragments of a meteorite damaged roofs and houses in western Germany on Sunday evening, the German police reported. Damage reports came in from several regions in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate after a striking fireball was seen in the sky.

According to the police, damage was reported in areas including the Hunsrück, Eifel, and around Koblenz. Eyewitnesses saw a bright light phenomenon that was visible for several seconds on Sunday evening. It was widely reported on social media.

In the Netherlands as well, people in several places reported seeing a bright streak of light in the sky. According to Weerplaza meteorologist Wouter van Bernebeek, it was most likely a meteor — a piece of space debris that burns up in the atmosphere and leaves a yellow trail of light. A meteorite is the part of a meteor that reaches Earth without completely burning up in the atmosphere.

The Working Group Meteors, a national association of amateur meteor observers, is calling on people to report their sightings. The observation map has already collected several hundred reports. Most came from the Netherlands, but sightings were also recorded in Belgium, Germany, France, and Luxembourg.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2030934359579230288

 

[Gawan]

Dutch media reports that fragments damaged some roofs and houses in Germany:

(AI translation)

https://twitter.com/x/status/2030934359579230288

Yes, so far it is reported that at least one roof got hit or several houses. Still, no definite answer yet.

 

[Gaby]

A meteor was seen across the skies of Germany and the Netherlands shortly before 7pm this evening.

Here's a couple of few video clips posted on X, the first one taken in Germany and the second one in Rotterdam, NL.

Dutch media reports that fragments damaged some roofs and houses in Germany:

es, so far it is reported that at least one roof got hit or several houses. Still, no definite answer yet.

More information via XRAS.ru. Make sure to check their video compilation!

A large meteorite measuring between one and several meters in diameter broke up and fell over Europe

There are numerous reports of a large fireball flying over Western Europe yesterday, March 8, at around 9 p.m. Moscow time. The flight was accompanied by flashes and sound effects and was captured by numerous stationary cameras and eyewitnesses' mobile phones.

A large 5-minute compilation of observations is available via a direct link (50 MB) on our website. The video attached to the message shows a panoramic view from Rotterdam (Netherlands) against the backdrop of the cityscape and Erasmus Bridge.

The object moved from southwest to northeast and was visible in the sky over Germany, France, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Based on the photos received, the brightness of the fireball near the epicenter can be estimated at a magnitude of minus 15 to minus 20, which is hundreds of times brighter than the full moon. Based on the video, the size of the meteorite ranges from one to several (2-3) meters. The rock initially entered the Earth's atmosphere at an altitude of about 80 kilometers and was observed for approximately 10 seconds. At an altitude of 40 to 20 km, the body actively broke up into fragments in the area of the cities of Koblenz and Frankfurt am Main (Germany), accompanied by bright flashes. In Koblenz, one of the fragments, several centimeters in size, pierced the roof of a residential building. Reports of falling fragments also came from other regions of Germany, confirming that the object broke into many small pieces and that some of the debris continued to move after the breakup.

The event evokes many associations with the observation of a similar fireball on October 27, 2025, which flew north of Moscow over the territory of the Vologda, Yaroslavl, Tver, and Novgorod regions, and was also captured on numerous stationary cameras and video recorders, which ultimately made it possible to determine its trajectory and the center of the debris scatter with good accuracy. One of the fragments, which also pierced the roof of a house at that time, was subsequently found 50 km from this center in the vicinity of the village of Okulovka.

So they really need the war to disguise celestial intentions, eh?

 

[Persej]

So they really need the war to disguise celestial intentions, eh?

And they also need to kill people who can reveal such things.

Q: (Gaby) Astrophysicist Carl Grillmair, Caltech’s Infrared Processing and Analysis Center principal investigator, was killed this month at his home by a gunman. Was this gunman indeed the reported suspect, Freddy Snyder?

A: Yes

Q: (Gaby) Was he, as the Cs last month described the killer of plasma physicist Nuno Loureiro, a “human agent of chaos”?

A: Yes

Q: (Gaby) Ultimately, why was Grillmair killed?

A: Getting too close to explosive revelations.

Q: (Niall) On or about the third of this month, we heard a loud boom that shook windows and reverberated strongly. Officially it was a sonic boom from a jet. Was this the cause?

A: No

Q: (Niall) What was the cause?

A: Overhead fragment explosion. SPA. [See previous answer.]

Q: (Gaby) I also heard a loud boom at my work this week. Was it the same thing?

A: Yes.

Q: (Niall) Two separate booms in the same region. Two different days.

(Gaby) It must be getting crowded.

(Niall) Wow!

A: More of that to come!!

Interestingly, this is happening in the Northern Hemisphere, and all the new big telescopes are in the south.

 

[Gaby]

Another one just before the German fireball, about the same size too. Via xras.ru

Less than a day before the meteorite fell in Germany, a second stone of the same size flew 30 thousand kilometers from Earth.

According to NASA, on March 7 at 22:45 Moscow time, asteroid 2026 EM, previously unknown and discovered only the day before, flew less than 30 thousand kilometers from the Earth's surface, which is several thousand kilometers closer than the geostationary groupings of communication spacecraft.

Given the relatively low frequency of such approaches, there is a possibility that the meteorite that entered the Earth's atmosphere and fell in fragments over the territory of West Germany on March 8 could be part of a compact group of bodies to which the asteroid 2026 EM belongs. In this case, the celestial body belongs to the so—called Apollo group - these are fairly common near-Earth asteroids that cross the Earth's orbit twice with each revolution around the Sun and which for this reason include a very large number of potentially dangerous bodies. The rotation period of the asteroid 2026 EM is just over a year.

Currently, according to the European Space Agency, there are no reliable observations of the stone that fell to Earth before it entered the atmosphere, which is due to the fact that the object was moving in the sky from the setting Sun and was essentially drowning in its rays. These are about the same reasons why the Chelyabinsk meteorite, which was also approaching from the daytime sky, was not detected in advance.

The initial size of the fallen meteorite, according to preliminary estimates by the European Space Agency, is several meters. The size of the asteroid 2026 EM, which missed the planet, was estimated to be about 2 meters. Currently, the asteroid has been lost due to its small size and is no longer observed.

 

[Martina]

This guy says that this might be the debris from 3I/Atlas.

 

[Gaby]

This guy says that this might be the debris from 3I/Atlas.

That just makes him look very dumb, discrediting his work. He should be more discerning! Comet 3I/Atlas is way out there in Jupiter. You can check out this database, adjusting for distance and orbit.

See the video extracted by xras.ru from the database above, for 2026EM, which is the equivalent of the German fireball.

 

[thorbiorn]

So they really need the war to disguise celestial intentions, eh?

And they also need to kill people who can reveal such things.

The CNEOS reporting has dwindled with the funding, we get the impression nothing is going on:

Since the assassination of Charlie Kirk it has been quiet, but if we compared the video recordings with earlier known and measured strikes, maybe we would have another picture.

30-06 1908, a note about the date of the Tunguska event
In the list there is always the date first. Going back in history there was the Tunguska event, that was on the 30th of June 1908, or if you like 30-06-1908.

30-06 is a number associated with the 30-06 Springfield, a midrange fairly powerful caliber.

The .30-06 Springfield cartridge (pronounced "thirty-aught-six" /ˈθɜːrti ɔːt sɪks/), 7.62×63mm in metric notation, and called the .30 Gov't '06 by Winchester,[5] was introduced to the United States Army in 1906 and later standardized; it remained in military use until the late 1970s. In the cartridge's name, ".30" refers to the nominal caliber of the bullet in inches; "06" refers to the year the cartridge was adopted, 1906

The Tunguska event on a date that echoed the number associated with the rifle created waves, but did not kill as many people as the 30-06 in the subsequent wars. These days 30-06 rifles are mostly used for hunting and sport. There are different ways to hunt, one being to be quiet, stalk the unaware animals to get close, take careful aim, and shoot. Sometimes an animal will sense something is wrong, but be unsure of what to do just long enough for a shot to be fired.

There was also:

Session 27 April 2024

Q: (Ryan) Are leaders in the West knowingly facilitating an increase in warmongering to prepare to cover up a possible comet strike?

A: Yes.

While comet strikes can do a lot of damage and take out whole civilizations, trying to cover it up might be because they and their handlers can capitalize on a potential strike.

Combining the sparse reporting from CNEOS, the Tunguska allusion hidden in 30-06, the above quote, as well as those about killed scientists, and the current state of war affairs, there is reason to pay attention to the skies.

 

[Gaby]

Since the assassination of Charlie Kirk it has been quiet, but if we compared the video recordings with earlier known and measured strikes, maybe we would have another picture.

The NEO Earth Close Approaches looks busy enough. Spaceweather.com bases his tables on that database:

On March 10, 2026 there were 2349 potentially hazardous asteroids.