☄️ NASA JPL Fireball Events Scraper

🚀 Export atmospheric fireball and bolide events in seconds. Pull every recorded fireball straight from NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies, with energy, location, altitude, and velocity for each event.

Track bright meteors and bolides detected by US Government sensors using the same public catalog NASA/JPL publishes for researchers. This Actor reads the keyless CNEOS Fireball API and returns clean, per event records with the newest events first.

Coverage spans more than a thousand fireball events going back over three decades. Each event carries its UTC peak brightness time, total radiated energy, estimated total impact energy in kilotons, latitude and longitude, peak brightness altitude, and where reported the pre entry velocity together with its three velocity components.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Astronomers and meteor researchers	Map bolide events and study energy distribution
Planetary defense and NEO analysts	Track impact energy and atmospheric entries
Data scientists and educators	Build fireball time series and teaching datasets
Science journalists and hobbyists	Find recent bright meteors over a region

📋 What the NASA JPL Fireball Events Scraper does

This Actor connects to the NASA/JPL CNEOS Fireball API and returns one structured record per fireball event. Latitude and longitude arrive from the source as a magnitude plus a direction, so the Actor converts them into signed decimal coordinates ready to plot, while keeping the original direction letters for reference.

• Event timing the UTC date and time of peak brightness.
• Energy total radiated energy in joules times 10^10 and estimated total impact energy in kilotons of TNT.
• Location signed latitude and longitude of peak brightness, plus the original N/S and E/W directions.
• Altitude the height above the reference geoid at peak brightness in kilometers.
• Velocity the pre entry speed in kilometers per second and its x, y, and z components when reported.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: altitude, date, energy, impactEnergy, latitude, longitude, results, scrapedAt, velocity, velocityX, velocityY, velocityZ. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Sign up for a free Apify account using this link.
2. Open the NASA JPL Fireball Events Scraper.
3. Optionally set a date window, a minimum energy, or require a known location.
4. Set how many events you want with maxItems, then start the run.
5. Collect your structured fireball records when the run finishes.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with NASA or JPL. Only publicly available data collected.

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