A meteor is seen in the sky over Scotland
Residents Scotland
Northern Ireland and England saw, this Wednesday (15) night, a
fire ball
England crosses the sky.
The flare lit up the sky for about 20 seconds and was visible around 10pm local time. The object traveled 300 km above Wales, the Irish Sea and Belfast before crashing into the Atlantic Ocean, according to calculations by the US Weather Network. UK
.
The UK Meteor Network (UMN), which has over 170 meteor detection cameras across the UK, is a Meteor
It entered Earth’s atmosphere.
“We are now 100% confident that this is a small fragment of an asteroid,” the network’s official Twitter account posted.
Before confirming the object’s identity and provenance, astronomers thought it was space debris from the businessman’s Starlink satellite program. Elon Musk
.
Researchers initially said they did not think it was a meteor due to its speed and its path across the UK sky.
UMN said it received nearly 800 reports of the fireball. The International Meteorological Organization received more than 1,000.
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