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A spectacular meteor wowed stargazers across the United Kingdom Friday (Sept. 21) when it flared up and shattered into piece

spotted by observers across Scotland and northern England as well as Ireland

Many observers captured views of the meteor on camera

A meteor in the sky above Reno, Nevada on April 22, 2012.

The red bullseye indicates the location where a meteor exploded over California's Central Valley on April 22, 2012. The yellow triangles mark infrasound arrays, which were key in determining the location of the meteor's explosion.

fireball occurred just after the peak of the annual mid-April Lyrid meteor shower

Jupiter's powerful gravity can help supercharge a meteor shower caused by trailing chunks of the famed Halley's comet, a new study suggests

Every October, skywatchers are treated to a dazzling show when the Orionid meteors — leftover bits of Halley's comet

The Orionids are incredibly active from time to

16 February 2013

NASA revised its estimates on the size and power of the devastating meteor explosion

now thought to be slightly larger — about 55 feet (17 m) wide — with the power of the blast estimate of about 500 kilotons, 30 kilotons higher than before

The fall of such a large meteor estimated as weighing dozens of tonnes was extremely rare

950 people were injured, with two-thirds of the injuries light wounds from glass shards and other materials blown out by the shockwave

the ministry saying almost 300 buildings were damaged including schools, hospitals, a zinc factory and even an ice hockey stadium

Meteorites found in Calif. along path of fireball

pieces from a meteor that was probably about the size of a minivan

rocks came from a meteor, believed to between 4 to 5 billion years old

traveled through the atmosphere for about 30 seconds before breaking apart and producing violent airburst ‘explosion’ about 20-14 km (12-15 miles) above Earth’s surface

producing an energy shockwave equivalent to a 300 kilotons explosion

The Russian meteor is the largest reported since 1908, when a meteor hit Tunguska, Siberia

Meteor explosion over Russia with 1,000 injuries

In 2013, a meteor exploded in the sky over Russia's Ural Mountains. It produced a shock wave so intense that about 1,000 people were reported injured, mostly by flying glass fragments. To view the meteor streaking across the sky, many people were at their windows when the sonic boom shattered the glass panes. The meteor was estimated to ;be 2 meters in diameter, with a mass of about 10 tons. It entered the Earth's atmosphere at a hypersonic speed of at least 33,000 mph when it was viewed by residents of Chelyabinsk (a city of 1 million about 930 miles east of Moscow) at about 9:20 am local time, just after sunrise. They saw a thick, white contrail and an intense flash of light ending with a loud thundering sound as the shattering of the meteor blew apart with several kilotons of energy (equivalent to an atomic bomb)

Russian scientists appear to have pulled up a half-ton charred meteorite from the bottom of a murky Siberian lake

a piece of the giant space rock that exploded in the skies above the southern Urals in February.

Entering the atmosphere at speeds up to 31,000 miles per hour (50,000 kilometers per hour), the Russian meteor, officially named 2011 EO40, exploded about 25 miles (40 kilometers) above the city of Chelyabinsk

A rock thought to be a meteorite from a recent fireball seen over Northern California is in fact, just a regular Earth rock

Projected band (light area) where meteorites of different size may have fallen over Marin and Sonoma counties from an Oct. 17, 2012 meteor.

Novato, Calif. resident

40-pound (18 kilogram)

Initial tests show it is an ordinary chondrite, the most common type of meteorite found on Earth

This is the biggest meteorite found in East Antarctica for 25 years

Scientists have begun piecing together the characteristics of the meteor that exploded over Russia on the morning of February 15, using data from seismic instruments that track earthquakes and microphones designed to detect sonic booms from nuclear explosions

The explosion had the equivalent of up to 500,000 tons of TNT

about 30 times the energy output of the Hiroshima atomic bomb

NASA statement on Russia meteor

the trajectory of the Russia meteor was significantly different than the trajectory of the asteroid 2012 DA14, making it a completely unrelated object

February 15, 2013

The meteor that streaked over the skies of Russia

not related to the asteroid that

The dramatic appearance of Halley's comet in the night sky has been observed and recorded by astronomers since 240 BC. Now a study shows that the orbital influences of Jupiter on the comet and the debris it leaves in its wake are responsible for periodic outbursts of activity in the Orionid meteor showers. The results will be presented by Aswin Sekhar at the National Astronomy Meeting in Manchester on Tuesday 27th March.