Another meteor maybe

RBOOM & Infrasound
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Another daytime meteor spotted by the satellites and heard on the ground.

The loud explosion heard over SW PA earlier may have been a meteor explosion. This GOES-16 GLM Total Optical Energy product shows a flash that was not associated with lightning. No confirmation, but this is the most likely explanation at this time. pic.twitter.com/ArtHCEA1RT

— NWS Pittsburgh (@NWSPittsburgh) January 1, 2022

One report says that unfortunately seismometers don’t respond to this frequency range. Well … Raspberry Shake does :wink:

Its likely that R6928 (near Indiana, PA) detected this. The timing is about right.

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Unfortunately no RB’s near Pittsburg,

Ken

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I was reading about this in a couple of articles yesterday.

It seems that, indeed, it was a meteor explosion that was recorded, around 30 tons of TNT equivalent. If the sky was clear, it would have surely been a very bright fireball, many many times the brightness of the full moon.

Great catch!

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It seems that some of the nuclear test ban monitoring infra sound stations picked this up as well.

Ken

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