Fireball Passes by Mount Fuji Stratovolcano in Japan | Earth Science FriendsofNASA.org | Photographer "Daichi Fujii": "This is a photograph of the fireball that occurred at 9:05:27pm on February 1, 2026, taken from Mt. Fuji. I got a hole-in-one at the Hoei crater. Recently, every month, a bright fireball has been captured seemingly overlapping with Mt. Fuji." In astronomy, fireballs, also known as bolides, are exceptionally bright meteors that, like all meteors, heat up when they enter Earth's a