The meteor disintegrated into several parts before disappearing.
A meteor has been caught in the camera passing through the night sky over Santiago, the capital of Chile. Scholars at the University of Concepción confirmed that the phenomenon, which was recorded on July 7, was a small body of rock that burned as it entered the Earth’s atmosphere, the BBC reported.
The meteor crossed the sky and opened a huge lantern in the city of Santiago. Citing authorities, local media reported that the meteor disintegrated in several parts before disappearing into the Andes region.
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The Brazilian medium TNH1 reported that the inhabitants of the city heard the sound of the meteor passing through the atmosphere as if it were a throne. Separately, astronomer Juan Carlos Beamin of the Chilean Astronomy Foundation reported that the meteor crossing Santiago is called “T12.cl.”
Beamin explained that a flash ignited because, on entering the atmosphere, even a “stone, or a small rock, by friction with the air, burns and shines.” “We’re talking speeds of 10,000 miles per hour,” he added.
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Meanwhile, a sighting of a meteor in Chile came on the same day that a fireball like a flaming meteor struck the sky over Wellington, New Zealand. According to Reuters, witnesses said they heard a loud boom and saw a flash as the object passed.
Alan Gilmore, an astronomer at Mount John Observatory at the University of Canterbury, said a meteor blowing through the atmosphere at high speed over an urban area was uncommon. He went on to describe the meteor and said, “That shone a lot, so it must have been a pretty big object.” Gilmore also reported that the boom people felt indicated that the meteor had reached 60 km from Earth.
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