A meteor shower was captured by the camera passing through the night sky over the capital of Chile, Santiago. According to a BBC report, academics at the University of Concepción claimed that the phenomenon, captured on July 7, was a small body of rock that burned after entering the Earth’s atmosphere.
The meteor crossed the sky emitting a huge flashlight over the city of Santiago. Authorities quoted in local media reports said the meteorite broke in several parts before disappearing into the Andes region.
City residents heard the sound of the meteor passing through the atmosphere like a loud bang, according to TNH1, a Brazilian media outlet. In addition, astronomer Juan Carlos Beamin of the Chilean Astronomy Foundation said the meteorite passing through Santiago is called “T12.cl.”
Meteorites that enter the Earth’s atmosphere burn in the Earth’s thick atmosphere and this produces light in the sky due to friction with the air. That was the reason for the meteor’s brightness in the sky, Beamin said. The meteor entered Earth at a speed of ten thousand kilometers per hour, Beamin said.
Alan Gilmore, an astronomer at the Mount John Observatory at the University of Canterbury, said a meteor speeding down the atmosphere over an urban area was a rare event. He said it shone a lot, so it could have been a big object. Gilmore also said the noise the residents heard was proof that the meteor had come 60 miles from Earth.
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