A very bright daylight meteor exploded over Atlanta, Georgia, at 12:26 local time (16:26 UTC) on June 26, 2025, producing a sonic boom and damaging a home in Henry County. Additional fragments may have reached South Carolina.
Two dense rocks that fell from the sky in the remote village of Khalwat-Nimgaon, located in Beed’s Wadwani taluka, Maharashtra, at around 14:00 LT (08:30 UTC) on March 3, 2025, have been confirmed as meteorites by scientists from MGM APJ Abdul Kalam Astro and Space Science Centre.Â
A meteorite now named Charlottetown Meteorite crashed into a walkway in Marshfield, Prince Edward Island, Canada, in July 2024. The incident was the first time in recorded history that both the impact and sound of a meteorite strike were captured on camera.
A meteorite measuring approximately 2 cm (0.8 inches) in diameter smashed the windscreen of a parked Toyota in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon near Birmingham, UK on December 26, 2024.
A very bright fireball was observed over the skies of Spain outshining the Moon in the night sky on Thursday, January 9, 2025. The preliminary analysis of this event shows a small part of the meteoroid survived and reached the ground as a meteorite.
Wits University scientists revealed fragments of a rare daylight fireball seen on August 25, 2024, over the Eastern Cape, South Africa. These meteorites were found in the town of Nqweba by a 9-year-old girl Elize du Toit.
A very bright fireball was seen over Otago and Canterbury, New Zealand at 08:04 UTC (21:04 LT) on March 13, 2024. Analysis shows that some 0.5 km (1.1 pounds) of the object survived the entry and ended up scattered on the ground in MacKenzie Country. A public search for meteorites is scheduled for March 21.
Initial investigations of meteorites from the strewn field of asteroid 2024 BX1, which entered the Earth’s atmosphere on January 21, 2024, near Ribbeck, northwest of Berlin, have identified them as rare aubrite achondrites. The findings were submitted to the Meteoritical Society’s Nomenclature Committee on February 2, 2024, for official examination.
A bright fireball streaked through the night sky over Sardinia, Italy at 21:53 UTC on October 8, 2023. The fireball was recorded by two Sardinian Prisma cameras.
A bright fireball streaked through the night sky over the western Netherlands at 22:10 UTC on June 4, 2023.
