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Ron DiIulio and Preston Starr, the observatory manager at  the University of North Texas, discovered the remnants of a meteor spotted shooting across the Texas sky Sunday.

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Two samples of fresh material from a meteor that alarmed numerous residents when it streaked across the Texas sky on Sunday have been found in a pasture in West.

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Meteorite hunters searching near West find what they believe was the source of Sunday's rumble and flash in the sky
A quarter-sized, roundish piece of chondrite meteorite was the Arizona team's first proof of a meteor that broke apart Sunday over Central Texas and now lies - by the group's estimate - in thousands of pieces across of a swath of northern McLennan County and probably southern Hill County.

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Meteorite hunter suspects meteor landed near Waco
McCartney Taylor is busy trying to find a needle in a hay stack, but in this case the needle is a meteorite, and the hay stack, Texas.

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At 11:03 am Sunday morning, a meteor streaked across our Texas sky. It was travelling at an estimated 15,000 to 40,000 miles per hour. It was captured by two National Weather Service Doppler radars as it passed about 20 miles north of Waco, or about 120 miles north of Austin.

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A light show some thought was caused by space junk re-entering the atmosphere Sunday over Texas actually was a meteor shower, a spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defence Command said Monday.
Michael Kucharek said the fireball couldn't be traced to man-made objects.

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The mysterious fireball that streaked across Central Texas skies on Sunday has been identified as a meteor.

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Mysterious lights were likely a meteor
The sky is falling, but it's meteors, not satellite debris, that has lit up the sky in Kentucky and Texas.

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Fiery debris seen in Texas skies not from satellite collision, officials say

Fiery debris burned through the Texas sky Sunday morning, alarming some and enchanting others but resulting in no apparent injury or damage.

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It streaked across the Central Texas sky Sunday morning in a bright yellow flash with a boom, leaving a trail of smoke. The FAA thought it might be from Russia.
The media, bloggers and the Twitterverse followed the feds' lead.
But they were all wrong.
It turned out it wasn't debris from Tuesday's collision of two satellites over Russia after all, according to the Domestic Events Network of the Federal Aviation Administration.
Federal authorities now believe the source was not manmade.

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Fireball in sky, sonic booms seen in sky in Texas



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Austin area law officers on Sunday were investigating numerous 911 calls from citizens who said they saw an object streaking across the sky and bursting into flame.
As of noon, the source of the occurrence had not been determined, Williamson County Sheriffs Department spokesman John Foster said.
The event occurred in skies north of Austin about 11 a.m., according to e-mails from citizens to the Austin American-Statesman.

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Ed ~ It now sees that this fireball was not related to the recent satellite collision, nor to the earlier reports of a fireball over Kentucky.

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