by Atlanta (AP)-more than 200 people in half a dozen southern US states have now reported that a mysterious object strip across the sky is seen on Thursday, and the nation’s space agency is of the opinion that it is a remarkably bright meteor that is known as a bolide.
According to a report by the National Weather Service Office in Peachtree City, Georgia, most views of the light and fireball came from Georgia and South Carolina around 12:30 p.m.
Here is what you need to know about the object:
Meteor pieces that are assumed that they are on the ground in Georgia
NASA found that it was about so large that a shopping cart roamed through the sky. Scientists were able to follow the path of the meteor after analyzing eyewitness reports, pictures of cameras and data from satellites and weather radar.
According to Bill Cooke, a scientist of the Meteoroid Disturbant Office of NASA in Huntsville, Alabama, he moved for the first time via Oxford, Georgia, became NASA’s meteoroid environmental agency.
In the small community of West Forest, Georgia, it broke apart and “an energy of around 20 tons,” said Cooke in an explanation. Booms created by many residents in the area created this.
The meteor that fell to the ground was found by several weather radars, and it is assumed that many meteorites are on the floor in the area of Blacksville, Georgia, on the ground.
People are thrilled in witness accounts
By Friday afternoon, at least 215 reports of the property were poured into the American Meteor Society, with many people expressing miracles and astonishment in their reports.
“It was a bright fireball,” wrote a woman in Bethlehem, Georgia.
“It had a bright cock that disappeared and left a smoke path,” she added. “I’ve never seen anything like that.”
A man in Milledgeville, Georgia, reported that “I think it came on the ground.”
The roof of a house in Georgia is pierced
A resident of Henry County, Georgia, reported that a rock came through his roof when she heard the sound boom from the fireball. According to the National Weather Service Office in Peachtree City, Georgia, it left a hole in the ceiling about the size of a golf ball and a tear in a laminate floor in the house southeast of Atlanta.
“We assume that a piece of the object fell through his roof,” said the weather service in a brief explanation on social media.
The dashboard and doorbell cameras in several states in the southeastern US states had an insight into the fireball, which seemed to fall straight down.
The sighting on the bright daylight is rare
Metore and other residues often get into the earth’s atmosphere, but it is rare that an object is so light that it is easy to see in bright daylight. Videos of the event showed a clear sky on Thursday, so that many see the meteor falling.
“The first time that he saw an event like this in daylight,” said a man in Cumming, Georgia, north of Atlanta, in his report to the meteor society.
“It was so light in the middle of the day … brighter than the sun,” Georgia reported a woman in Dublin.
Bright fire balls are caused by friction as an object in the atmosphere and slowed down considerably. According to NASA, almost all objects break into tiny pieces before they hit the floor.
