Brilliant-Green Fireball Meteor Explodes over Erupting Volcano in the Philippines
Two livestreams captured the bright-green flash, and officials said the meteor disintegrated in the atmosphere without striking the volcano.
- On Sunday, a bright-green fireball meteor streaked across the skies above Mount Mayon in Albay province, Luzon, captured by two livestreams monitoring the volcano's ongoing eruption at 10:33 p.m. local time, according to the Philippine Space Agency.
- Mount Mayon, standing at 8,081 feet above sea level, had been erupting since early January according to the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program. Fireball meteors occur when asteroids survive atmospheric reentry but burn up between 37 and 62 miles above Earth's surface due to friction.
- The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology captured black-and-white footage showing a bright flash near the summit, while afarTV's full-color video revealed red magma glow and the meteor's emerald light, likely caused by high nickel concentration in the asteroid.
- PHIVOLCS initially posted that footage showed a meteor striking the volcano's northern slopes, sparking misleading viral videos on social media. However, seismic and infrasound analysis later confirmed the meteor disintegrated in the atmosphere without striking Mayon's slopes.
- The simultaneous display of volcanic and meteoric fire represented a remarkable coincidence. Larger meteor fragments occasionally survive to reach Earth as meteorites, helping scientists study solar system formation, with rare recent incidents in Texas and Ohio demonstrating such events can strike property.
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MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Space Agency (PhilSA) confirmed that the bright light captured in Mayon Volcano on May 25 was a meteor. This comes after a video released by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) went viral, showing a bright streak of light at the slopes of the volcano as volcanic activities continue“The event was visually striking, with the Mayon Volcano at the foreground of Phivolcs' video captur…
A spectacular shot of the Mayon volcano in the Philippines is currently causing worldwide attention (see posting below). What initially seemed like a meteorite impact on the volcano turned out to be a rare meeting of two independent natural phenomena. On Monday at 22.33 local time (16.33 CEST) a surveillance camera from the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) on Ligñon Hill in Legazpi City in the province of Albay recor…
Brilliant-green fireball meteor explodes over erupting volcano in the Philippines
Multiple videos show a rare "fireball" meteor breaking apart with a flash of emerald light over the erupting Mount Mayon. Initial reports suggested that the falling space rock hit the volcano, but this was untrue.
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The Independent (US)Moment meteor flies through sky beside erupting volcano
A meteor flew through the sky right next to an erupting volcano in the Philippines. Webcam footage from the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology on Monday (26 May) shows the flash of the meteor fall as the Mayon volcano was experiencing a low-level eruption. In a Facebook post accompanying the video, the institute said its “review of seismic, infrasound, and additional camera footage around the volcano indicates that the meteor dis…
Images aired by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) show a meteor illuminating the sky over the Mayon volcano, on the night of Monday to Tuesday.
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