{"id":10587,"date":"2021-12-17T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/?p=10587"},"modified":"2021-12-17T06:25:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T22:25:09","slug":"dashcam-captures-great-view-of-bright-fireball-from-brunei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/2021\/12\/dashcam-captures-great-view-of-bright-fireball-from-brunei\/","title":{"rendered":"Dashcam Captures Great View of Bright Fireball from Brunei"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bandar Seri Begawan &#8211; Dozens<\/strong> of people reported to the Astronomical Society of Brunei Darussalam (PABD) concerning the blazing streak from space last night, December 16, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Observers reported seeing the meteor from Brunei Muara District and as far Tutong District. One lucky eyewitness saw the greenish flash and captured what appears to be a bright fireball on his dashcam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alhakim, 31 years old, was on his way home from work. A brilliant cosmic beam flashed in front of his view when he was driving along Jalan Kebangsaan heading north towards Jalan Utama Mentiri highway at around 7.40 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dashcam Captures Green Cosmic Flash over Brunei\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3g-4gkW-ab4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption><em>Above: A fireball was caught by a witness, Alhakim, at Jalan Kebangsaan, Brunei Darussalam, on December 16, 2021.<\/em> <em>(Credit: Alhakim)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOn that evening, out of the blue came something from the sky, and (it) struck from above going all the way with a bright green light,\u201d Alhakim recalled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His 5-second dashcam footage revealed a meteor coming down from West to East and disintegrated in the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFew seconds later, it dispersed which I guess it broke off,\u201d he said. &#8220;It was beautiful!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fireball dashing safely above Jame&#8217; &#8216;Asr Hassanil Bolkiah mosque was also captured by two home security cameras at residence of one of the PABD members in Kiarong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It was moving approximately at bearing 040 deg (NE) to 080 deg (E) from Kiarong,&#8221; Hj Azri said on his Instagram TV post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sbi-embed-wrap\"><blockquote class=\"instagram-media sbi-embed\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CXjnf79BttR\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:640px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"><div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CXjnf79BttR\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; 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font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CXjnf79BttR\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by Azri Ibrahim (@azri77)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote><script async src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CXh5jbrhxFl\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CXh5jbrhxFl\/\" target=\"_blank\">Social media comments<\/a> by few netizens mistakenly thought the fireball was a comet as Leonard (C\/2021 A1) lightshow occurred during its close approach around the same week. A comet orbits in space will display a fuzzy nucleus with its main tail and remains in the sky for few hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A meteor or \u201cshooting star\u201d, on the other hand, is the brief flash of light due to dust fragments from space that strike the Earth&#8217;s atmosphere at high speeds, and the larger ones will display fireballs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sightings of fireball in the night sky can be reported by any public members to the International Meteor Organization (IMO) for studying meteors via online form <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imo.net\/observations\/fireballs\/fireball-report-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.imo.net\/observations\/fireballs\/fireball-report-program\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bandar Seri Begawan &#8211; Dozens of people reported to the Astronomical Society of Brunei Darussalam&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,3],"tags":[335,5],"class_list":["post-10587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive","category-news","tag-fireball","tag-meteor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}