Giant blue fireball fell from space to England
According to the Daily Mail, the dazzling blue ball of fire that burned in the sky over southwest England last month has just been confirmed by the kingdom's leading meteor observation network to be a shiny, older-than-Earth meteorite, iridescent and dark in color. Masses of people in South Wales, Hertfordshire and West Sussex have observed the phenomenon.
Image recorded by a dashcam on a resident's car - (Photo: DAILY MAIL)
More than 250 Britons reported the event via UKMON's website, and 15 of the network's 150 cameras located across the country also captured the special moment.
UKMON, Fireball Recovery and Interplanetary Observation Network (Fripon), Global Fireball Observatory (GFO), UK Fireball Alliance (UKFall) have shared data and jointly analyzed about the mysterious blue fireball.
Image from one of UKMON's cameras - (Image: UKMON)
"Preliminary analysis from UKMON data shows that the height of the sphere is about 30km above the ground, velocity is 6.9km/s. That's interesting," UKMON founder Richard Kacerek told the Mail. Online.
UKMON believes that with the above parameters, the blue fireball is likely to have landed on the ground rather than burn out completely, but they may also need scuba gear as calculations suggest it has fallen into the channel. Bristol.
Another view from another camera
According to UKFall, this blue fireball is a meteorite. They forecast it would fall on the town of Shrewsbury (Shropshire county). UKFall researcher Aine O'Brien told BBC News it could be an older meteorite than Earth and could unlock more knowledge about the Solar System. The search is still ongoing.
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