fireballs and near earth asteriods


All Sky Fireball Network

Every night, a network of NASA all-sky cameras scans the skies above the United States for meteoritic fireballs. Automated software maintained by NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office calculates their orbits, velocity, penetration depth in Earth's atmosphere and many other characteristics. Daily results are presented here on Spaceweather.com.

On Mar 11, 2022, the network reported 2 fireballs.
(2 sporadics)

In this diagram of the inner solar system, all of the fireball orbits intersect at a single point--Earth. The orbits are color-coded by velocity, from slow (red) to fast (blue). [Larger image] [movies]

  Near Earth Asteroids
Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) are space rocks larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. None of the known PHAs is on a collision course with our planet, although astronomers are finding new ones all the time.
On March 11, 2022 there were 2271 potentially hazardous asteroids.
Recent & Upcoming Earth-asteroid encounters:
Asteroid
Date(UT)
Miss Distance
Velocity (km/s)
Diameter (m)
2022 EW4
2022-Mar-06
5.5 LD
8.3
19
2022 DT3
2022-Mar-06
9.8 LD
19.5
23
2022 DO1
2022-Mar-06
6.6 LD
13.9
15
2022 EZ1
2022-Mar-06
19.1 LD
5.4
16
2022 EC4
2022-Mar-06
1.5 LD
9.9
19
2022 EM
2022-Mar-06
18.6 LD
18.1
44
2022 EY
2022-Mar-06
12.6 LD
6.3
27
2022 EY3
2022-Mar-06
9.9 LD
4.5
10
2022 EB3
2022-Mar-07
11.7 LD
19.7
52
2022 EL4
2022-Mar-07
2 LD
9.8
13
2022 EF3
2022-Mar-07
7.3 LD
9.9
10
2022 DH1
2022-Mar-07
18 LD
7
42
2020 DC
2022-Mar-07
4.2 LD
5
16
2022 EX3
2022-Mar-07
19.4 LD
20.3
27
2022 ET4
2022-Mar-08
8.5 LD
18.1
59
2022 DS3
2022-Mar-09
13.4 LD
3.7
15
2022 EM4
2022-Mar-09
7.7 LD
6.8
30
2022 EV3
2022-Mar-09
0.2 LD
10.5
4
2022 EC2
2022-Mar-09
10.8 LD
12.3
15
2022 EN3
2022-Mar-10
7.6 LD
17.6
32
2022 EV4
2022-Mar-10
14.2 LD
7.1
17
2021 EY1
2022-Mar-10
10.1 LD
15.5
16
2015 DR215
2022-Mar-11
17.5 LD
8.3
290
2022 EV1
2022-Mar-11
10.7 LD
8.3
22
2009 DV43
2022-Mar-11
8.2 LD
16.5
65
2022 DX2
2022-Mar-13
15.7 LD
12.7
35
2022 DR3
2022-Mar-13
15.7 LD
12.4
31
2018 GY
2022-Mar-13
11.9 LD
10.7
43
2022 BX1
2022-Mar-13
20.1 LD
11
161
2022 ES3
2022-Mar-13
0.9 LD
18.4
14
2022 EO4
2022-Mar-13
2.8 LD
15.6
29
2022 EA1
2022-Mar-14
8.1 LD
5.5
13
2022 EK4
2022-Mar-14
4.8 LD
8.3
19
2022 ED4
2022-Mar-15
2.1 LD
17
17
2022 DP3
2022-Mar-15
3 LD
10.8
41
2022 EG3
2022-Mar-15
13.8 LD
6.5
8
2022 EF4
2022-Mar-16
6.9 LD
12.1
24
2019 PH1
2022-Mar-17
12.3 LD
15.9
37
2022 EU3
2022-Mar-17
14.2 LD
5
14
2022 DB2
2022-Mar-18
11 LD
8.6
52
2016 FZ12
2022-Mar-19
2.2 LD
8.3
16
2022 DX
2022-Mar-19
8.5 LD
1.5
8
2022 EE4
2022-Mar-21
18 LD
16.9
33
2022 DG3
2022-Mar-21
18.3 LD
7.2
37
2020 SQ
2022-Mar-21
2.8 LD
6
12
2022 EA5
2022-Mar-23
14.9 LD
8
18
2013 BO76
2022-Mar-24
13.3 LD
13.8
271
2011 GE3
2022-Mar-26
7.6 LD
7
22
2012 FX35
2022-Mar-26
13.7 LD
5.9
25
2010 GD35
2022-Mar-29
17.7 LD
12.5
43
2020 FW5
2022-Mar-30
8.9 LD
13.1
27
2022 EK1
2022-Mar-30
19 LD
7.6
42
2022 DX4
2022-Mar-31
16.7 LD
6
41
2007 FF1
2022-Apr-01
19.4 LD
12.8
155
2021 GN1
2022-Apr-02
14.4 LD
14.3
19
2016 GW221
2022-Apr-02
9.8 LD
5.9
41
2022 EN2
2022-Apr-04
18.7 LD
5.6
41
2012 TV
2022-Apr-05
19.2 LD
18.1
32
2020 GH1
2022-Apr-09
16.8 LD
7.2
28
2017 TO2
2022-Apr-10
17.9 LD
11.6
78
363599
2022-Apr-12
19.3 LD
24.5
221
2020 TQ6
2022-Apr-18
13.4 LD
15.4
43
2017 UR2
2022-Apr-22
19.4 LD
9.3
10
2020 VN1
2022-Apr-25
19.3 LD
2.3
9
418135
2022-Apr-28
8.5 LD
10.4
443
2017 XO2
2022-May-01
18.8 LD
12.4
118
2017 HG1
2022-May-04
18.2 LD
6
11
467460
2022-May-09
14.9 LD
11.3
513
Notes: LD means "Lunar Distance." 1 LD = 384,401 km, the distance between Earth and the Moon. 1 LD also equals 0.00256 AU. MAG is the visual magnitude of the asteroid on the date of closest approach.
  Cosmic Rays in the Atmosphere

SPACE WEATHER BALLOON DATA: Almost once a week, Spaceweather.com and the students of Earth to Sky Calculus fly space weather balloons to the stratosphere over California. These balloons are equipped with sensors that detect secondary cosmic rays, a form of radiation from space that can penetrate all the way down to Earth's surface. Our monitoring program has been underway without interruption for 7 years, resulting in a unique dataset of in situ atmospheric measurements.

Latest results (Nov. 2021): Our balloons have just measured a sudden drop in atmospheric radiation. It happened during the strong geomagnetic storms of Nov. 3-4, 2021. Here are the data:

This is called a "Forbush decrease," named after American physicist Scott Forbush who studied cosmic rays in the early 20th century.  It happens when a CME from the sun sweeps past Earth and literally pushes cosmic rays away from our planet. Radiation from deep space that would normally pepper Earth's upper atmosphere is briefly wiped out.

We have measured Forbush decreases before. For example, here's one from Sept. 2014. The Forbush Decrease of Nov. 3-4, 2021, was the deepest in the history of our 7-year atmospheric monitoring program. Radiation levels in the stratosphere over California dropped nearly 20%, more than doubling the previous record from our dataset. 

En route to the stratosphere, our sensors also pass through aviation altitudes, so we can sample radiation where planes fly. This plot shows how the Forbush decrease was restricted to the stratosphere; it did not affect lower levels of the atmosphere:

The dose rates shown above are expressed as multiples of sea level. For instance, we see that boarding a plane that flies at 25,000 feet exposes passengers to dose rates ~10x higher than sea level. At 40,000 feet, the multiplier is closer to 50x. The higher you fly, the more radiation you will absorb.

.Who cares? Cosmic rays are a surprisingly "down to Earth" form of space weather. They can seed clouds, trigger lightning, and penetrate commercial airplanes. According to a study from the Harvard T.H. Chan school of public health, crews of aircraft have higher rates of cancer than the general population. The researchers listed cosmic rays, irregular sleep habits, and chemical contaminants as leading risk factors. Somewhat more controversial studies (#1, #2, #3, #4) link cosmic rays with cardiac arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death.

.Technical notes: The radiation sensors onboard our helium balloons detect X-rays and gamma-rays in the energy range 10 keV to 20 MeV. These energies span the range of medical X-ray machines and airport security scanners.

Data points in the first graph ("Stratospheric Radiation") correspond to the peak of the Regener-Pfotzer maximum, which lies about 67,000 feet above central California. When cosmic rays crash into Earth's atmosphere, they produce a spray of secondary particles that is most intense at the entrance to the stratosphere. Physicists Eric Regener and Georg Pfotzer discovered the maximum using balloons in the 1930s and it is what we are measuring today.

  Essential web links
NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center
  The official U.S. government space weather bureau
Atmospheric Optics
  The first place to look for information about sundogs, pillars, rainbows and related phenomena.
Solar Dynamics Observatory
  Researchers call it a "Hubble for the sun." SDO is the most advanced solar observatory ever.
STEREO
  3D views of the sun from NASA's Solar and Terrestrial Relations Observatory
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
  Realtime and archival images of the Sun from SOHO.
SolarMonitor.org
  information about sunspots based on the latest NOAA/USAF Active Region Summary
Daily Sunspot Summaries
  from the NOAA Space Environment Center
NOAA 27-Day Space Weather Forecasts
  fun to read, but should be taken with a grain of salt! Forecasts looking ahead more than a few days are often wrong.
Aurora 30 min forecast
  from the NOAA Space Environment Center
Live Aurora Webcam
  from Lights over Lapland
Heliophysics
  the underlying science of space weather

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