#Fireball

Oumuamua – Physicist who found spherical meteor fragments claims they may come from an alien spaceship – here’s what to make of it

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Avi Loeb, a physicist from Harvard University in the US, has recovered 50 tiny spherical iron fragments from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean that he claims may be material from an interstellar alien spaceship. Loeb is linking his finding with the passage of a fireball in January...

How scientists found rare fireball meteorite pieces on a driveway – and what they could teach us

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As people in the UK were settling down to watch the late evening news on February 28, a fresh news story, quite literally, appeared in the night sky. A large and very bright fireball was seen over southern England and northern France at 21:54 GMT. It was recorded...

New video shows SN8 Starship prototype “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly” in incredible detail

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This week SpaceX’s SN8 Starship prototype test ended in a gigantic fireball after making a slightly harder-than-anticipated landing. However, the prototype spacecraft did perform well up to that point. The craft soared up to 12.5 kilometers before coming down to Earth in a tightly controlled descent (right...