Editing Meteor (section)

== Notable meteors ==
{{See also|Near-Earth object#Notable objects}}
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; 1992{{snd}}Peekskill, New York
: The [[Peekskill Meteorite]] was recorded on October&nbsp;9, 1992 by at least 16 independent videographers.<ref name="uwo-peeks">{{Cite web|url=https://aquarid.physics.uwo.ca/~pbrown/Videos/peekskill.htm|title=The Peekskill Meteorite October 9|website=aquarid.physics.uwo.ca}}</ref> Eyewitness accounts indicate the fireball entry of the Peekskill meteorite started over West Virginia at 23:48 UT (±1&nbsp;min). The fireball, which traveled in a northeasterly direction, had a pronounced greenish colour, and attained an estimated peak visual magnitude of −13. During a luminous flight time that exceeded 40 seconds the fireball covered a [[ground path]] of some {{cvt|700|to|800|km|order=flip}}.<ref name="Nature-6464">{{cite journal |last1=Brown |first1=Peter |last2=Ceplecha |first2=Zedenek |last3=Hawkes |first3=Robert L. |last4=Wetherill |first4=George W. |last5=Beech |first5=Martin |last6=Mossman |first6=Kaspar |title=The orbit and atmospheric trajectory of the Peekskill meteorite from video records |journal=Nature |volume=367 |issue=6464 |pages=624–626 |year=1994 |bibcode=1994Natur.367..624B |doi=10.1038/367624a0 |s2cid=4310713 }}</ref> One meteorite recovered at [[Peekskill, New York]], for which the event and object gained their name, had a mass of {{convert|12.4|kg|lb|abbr=on|order=flip}} and was subsequently identified as an H6 monomict breccia meteorite.<ref name="MB-75">{{cite journal | doi=10.1111/j.1945-5100.1993.tb00641.x| title=The Meteoritical Bulletin, No. 75, 1993 December| journal=Meteoritics| volume=28| issue=5| pages=692–703| year=1993| last1=Wlotzka| first1=Frank}}</ref> The video record suggests that the Peekskill meteorite had several companions over a wide area. The companions are unlikely to be recovered in the hilly, wooded terrain in the vicinity of Peekskill.
; 2009{{snd}}Bone, Indonesia
: A [[2009 Sulawesi superbolide|large fireball]] was observed in the skies near [[Watampone|Bone]], [[Sulawesi]], Indonesia on October&nbsp;8, 2009. This was thought to be caused by an asteroid approximately {{cvt|10|m||}} in diameter. The fireball contained an estimated energy of 50 kilotons of TNT, or about twice the [[Fat Man|Nagasaki atomic bomb]]. No injuries were reported.<ref name="NEO165">{{cite web |date=October 23, 2009 |title=Asteroid Impactor Reported over Indonesia |publisher=NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office |first1=Donald K. |last1=Yeomans |first2=Paul |last2=Chodas |first3=Steve |last3=Chesley |url=http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news165.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091026095704/http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news165.html |archive-date=October 26, 2009 |access-date=2009-10-30 }}</ref>
; 2009{{snd}}Southwestern US
: A large bolide was reported on 18 November 2009 over southeastern California, northern Arizona, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Colorado. At 00:07 local time a security camera at the high altitude [[Willard L. Eccles Observatory|W. L. Eccles Observatory]] ({{cvt|2930|m|order=flip|}} above sea level) recorded a movie of the passage of the object to the north.<ref name="YT-XiL1UGbHXSI">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiL1UGbHXSI |title=W. L. Eccles Observatory, November 18, 2009, North Camera |publisher=YouTube |date=2009-11-18 |access-date=2011-09-16 }}</ref><ref name="YT-kE109bKQESw">{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE109bKQESw |title=W. L. Eccles Observatory, November 18, 2009, North West Camera |publisher=YouTube |date=2009-11-18 |access-date=2011-09-16 }}</ref> It had a spherical "ghost" image slightly trailing the main object (likely a lens reflection of the intense fireball), and a bright fireball explosion associated with the breakup of a substantial fraction of the object. An object trail continued northward after the fireball. The shock from the final breakup triggered seven seismological stations in northern Utah. The seismic data yielded a terminal location of the object at 40.286 N, −113.191 W, altitude {{cvt|27|km|ft|-4|order=flip}}.{{citation needed|date = January 2016}}<!---<ref>Wiggins, Patrick; private communication</ref>----> This is above the Dugway Proving Grounds, a closed Army testing base.
; 2013{{snd}}Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia
: The [[Chelyabinsk meteor]] was an extremely bright, exploding fireball, or [[superbolide]], measuring about {{cvt|17|to|20|m}} across, with an estimated mass of 11,000 tonnes as the relatively small [[asteroid]] entered Earth's atmosphere.<ref name="JPL20130301">{{cite web |date=1 March 2013 |title=Additional Details on the Large Fireball Event over Russia on Feb. 15, 2013 |publisher=NASA/JPL Near-Earth Object Program Office |first1=Don |last1=Yeomans |first2=Paul |last2=Chodas |url=http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/fireball_130301.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130306002358/http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/fireball_130301.html |archive-date=6 March 2013 |access-date=2 March 2013}}</ref><ref name="NASA-061">{{cite web |url=http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-061 |author=JPL |title=Russia Meteor Not Linked to Asteroid Flyby |website=[[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] |date=2012-02-16 |access-date=2013-02-19 }}</ref> It was the largest  natural object known to have entered Earth's atmosphere since the [[Tunguska event]] in 1908. Over 1,500 people were injured, mostly by glass from shattered windows caused by the [[Meteor air burst|air burst]] approximately {{cvt|25|to|30|km|ft|-4}} above the [[Chelyabinsk Oblast|environs of Chelyabinsk]], Russia on 15 February 2013. An increasingly bright streak was observed during morning daylight with a large contrail lingering behind. At no less than one minute and up to at least three minutes after the object peaked in intensity (depending on distance from trail), a large concussive blast was heard that shattered windows and set-off car alarms, which was followed by a number of smaller explosions.<ref name="guardian-20130215">{{cite news |title=Meteorite slams into Central Russia injuring 1100 - as it happened |url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/feb/15/meteorite-explodes-over-russian-urals-live-updates |newspaper=Guardian |date=15 February 2013 |access-date=16 February 2013 <!-- traces at http://www.navbug.com/article64047559_arch20130219/meteorite_slams_into_central_russia_injuring_1100_as_it_happened_the_guardian.htm and http://vietnamtimesonline.com/2013/02/16/meteorite-slams-into-central-russia-injuring-1100-as-it-happened-the-guardian/ -->}}</ref>
; 2019{{snd}}Midwestern United States
: On November 11, 2019, a meteor was spotted streaking across the skies of the [[Midwestern United States]]. In the [[St. Louis]] Area, security cameras, dashcams, webcams, and video doorbells captured the object as it burned up in the earth's atmosphere. The [[superbolide]] meteor was part of the [[Taurids|South Taurids]] meteor shower.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/stcharles/once-in-a-lifetime-bright-meteor-streaks-across-st-louis/article_ee432841-2fd7-5b11-9ad6-179af67c8670.html|title=Once in a lifetime: Bright meteor streaks across St. Louis nighttime skies|last=Staff|date=November 12, 2019|website=St. Louis Post Dispatch|language=en|access-date=2019-11-12}}</ref> It traveled east to west ending its flight somewhere near [[Wellsville, Missouri|Wellsville]], [[Missouri]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amsmeteors.org/2019/11/fireball-spotted-over-missouri-on-nov-11th-2019/ |title=Fireball spotted over Missouri on Nov. 11th, 2019 |last=Perlerin |first=Vincent |date=12 November 2019 |website=[[American Meteor Society]] |access-date=2024-09-19}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/12/us/meteor-sighting-midwest-louis-missouri-scn-trnd/index.html|title=A bright meteor streaks through the Midwest sky|author1=Elizabeth Wolfe |author2=Saeed Ahmed|date=November 12, 2019|website=CNN|access-date=2019-11-12}}</ref>