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4 days ago

From the archive: Do sunspots affect the price of corn?

Crop prices correlate with an 11-year solar period, and a meteor detonates over Ireland, in this week's pick from the Nature archive. 100 years ago doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-03455-0 This article features text from Nature's archive. By its historical nature, the archive includes some images, articles and language that by twenty-first-century standards are offensive and harmful. Find out more.
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fromMail Online
1 month ago

'Meteor' streaks through UK skies tonight leaving lucky gazers in awe

'My next thought was fireworks but I'm 90% sure it wasn't that, and there was no explosion. 'For reference it was about the same size as the full-ish moon tonight, visible through the clouds, but as a much brighter blue green color and, again, moving quite fast. 'It was a very odd combination of speed, size and brightness and didn't look like anything I've ever seen in the sky here before.'
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago
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Fireball lights up sky over western Japan

An exceptionally bright meteor fireball (bolide) crossed western Japan, visible for hundreds of miles, reported as bright as the moon and causing audible vibrations.
fromMail Online
4 months ago
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Panic as flaming object seen streaking through sky in multiple states

A mysterious flaming object was seen across multiple southern states, causing public alarm but no reported explosions.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

My house and the earth shook visibly': blazing meteor thrills residents in central Victoria

A large meteor streaked across central Victoria's night sky, accompanied by a loud sound and visible fragments.
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fromwww.npr.org
4 months ago

What's that in the sky? We're not sure, but the fireball was very bright

A bright object, possibly a meteor or space junk, was reported streaking across the Southeast U.S. and falling in Georgia.
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