The exact moment when a meteorite illuminated the night in Florida

The inhabitants of the south of Florida, in United States, quedaron disconcertados el lunes, when an asteroid surpassed the sky repentantly flew a ball of fugue and illuminated the night. The phenomenal incident occurred approximately at 22:15 hours.

‘Did you see a meteor this night? We have received some information about one that can be seen from the Suroeste of Florida”, Informs the National Meteorological Service of the Area of ​​the Tampa Bahia in its Twitter account and supports the publication of a satellite image of the event.

In the social networks, the residents of the Atlantic coast of the state, of West Palm Beach to the south of Miami, shared videos on Twitter of the surprising vista.

The images of the grabs and security videos show a dark and quiet night illuminated by what appears to be a large ball of smoke crossing diagonally across the sky. Only one second, if any.

According to NASA, an asteroid is a small rocky object that orbits the Sun. A meteor is what succeeds when a meteoroid, a small part of an asteroid or comet, enters the atmosphere of the Earth, created a ray of light in the sky.

If an asteroid strikes the asteroid at night corresponding to the 2021 GW4, it is hoped that a landslide with the surface of the Earth will be different today.

Follow the meteorologist of CBS12 News, Zach Covey, the asteroid institute programmed to make a “very close approximation”Solo 16,000 miles from Tierra. According to the EarthSky.org site, it is estimated that the asteroid travels to 29,706 miles per hour.

Zach Covey wrote on Twitter that if the meteorite showed the moon effectively in the 2021 GW4, probably much closer to the surface of the Earth of what is originally hoped for.

‘To put it in perspective, the majority of asteroids near the Earth are located between 1 and 3 million miles from Tierra”, Explained.

Sondeverbod, Jonathan McDowell, astronomer at the Astrophysical Observatory, shared from his Twitter personal page that the phenomenon was seen in Florida geen tuvo nada que ver con GW4.

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