A huge meteor filled the UK skies on Sunday night, much to the delight of those lucky enough to see it.
The meteor was spotted shortly before 10 p.m. and was visible for about seven seconds. He was captured on doorbells and security cameras in Manchester, Cardiff, Honeyton, Bath, Midsomer Norton and Milton Keynes.
The UK’s Meteorological Network, a group of amateur astronomers who have been using cameras to record meteor scenes in the UK since 2012, said the meteorite is a fireball, and Wrote On Twitter, “From the two videos we saw that it is a slow moving meteor with clearly visible pieces.”
Meteors burn the space object entering the Earth’s atmosphere. Fireballs are particularly bright meteors that can in principle appear in daylight. According to the American Meteorological Society (AMS), fireballs usually have an intensity of -4, which is as bright as Venus, when it appears in the evening or in the morning. The intensity of the full moon is -12.6 while that of the sun is -26.7.
The AMSA said that while thousands of meteors fire into the Earth’s atmosphere every day, most come from oceans or desolate areas.
The UK’s Meteorological Network group said more than 120 people reported seeing Sunday night’s meteorite.
A Twitter user Wrote About the fireball: “I first thought it was a bright star or a plane, then it got bigger and faster, then a huge flash lit up the sky and it spread out in a huge tail of orange sparks coming back like a huge firecracker.” ! “
There were also alien jokes on Twitter, with references to Superman, The Day the Triffids, Man in Black and the War of the Worlds.
Others joked that it was a revenge for NASA’s Perseverance Rover Landing on Mars Last week. The rover has shared images and is the first recording of what it looks like on a red planet.
A user offered to prepare any incoming aliens a Full English breakfast.
