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Pieces of the meter likely landed north of Cheltenham, 140 kilometers northwest of London.
Particularly bright meteors are called fireballs. They are usually rocks that go through space at high speed. Upon entering the Earth’s atmosphere, they encounter resistance and slow down, and the heat and heat thus generated make the phenomenon visible in the night sky.
According to video images, the rock was traveling at a speed of 30,000 miles per hour, said Ashley King of the Natural History Museum in London. “It’s too fast to be man-made garbage,” says the expert.
The recordings also made it possible to reconstruct the original orbit of the meteor around the Sun: the object could have traveled between Mars and Jupiter.
“If a meteor is found, photograph and record the coordinates, but don’t touch the rocks,” asked Katherine Joy, a staff member at the University of Manchester. (MTI)
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