@cosmiclibrarian “Ultimately, the early 2026 fireball wave highlights a glaring blind spot in our planetary defense and astronomical monitoring.

Right now, scientists are relying heavily on #crowdsourced eyewitness accounts to calculate #trajectories. When the 7-ton asteroid exploded over Ohio, the only #AMS affiliated #AllskyCamera in the state was offline.”

Loosing Carl, terrible; Loosing his expertise is really bad right now.

<https://zmescience.com/science/news-science/something-is-happening-around-earth-inside-2026s-massive-fireball-surge/>

@cosmiclibrarian “The system designed to close that detection gap is #NEOSurveyor, the first space telescope purpose-built to find objects that could hit Earth. Its data pipeline runs through IPAC at Caltech.

The man who was validating whether that telescope’s instruments would perform to specification, the instrument characterization specialist whose job was to find the blind spots before the telescope launched, was Carl Grillmair. Shot dead on his porch”

A lot of co-incidences could explain the article; However the function of NEO and these independent observations by #AMS ☄️for March… 🧐

“At the 25+ report threshold, 2026 has produced 61 events versus a 2021–2025 average of roughly 43—up about 42%. At 50+ reports, 2026 has 38 events versus an average of 18—more than double. And at 100+, the count of 14 is twice the average of 7. The *signal gets stronger as the threshold rises*, which is the hallmark of a genuine physical change in the incoming material, not a reporting artifact.”

<https://amsmeteors.org/ams-q1-2026-fireball-analysis.html>