A bright object that penetrated the sky caused a lot of excitement, as residents in Georgia and other southern states rushed to shoot a mysterious “fiery ball”.
Reports were flooded by the US Meteor Society of Observations on Thursday, June 26, and scientists have diverged to determine exactly what caused the move.
Meanwhile, a poor Georgian may have looked more closely at the site that most people see from miles after pieces of it may have crashed through a home south of Atlanta.
So what was it? Not surprisingly, meteorologists and other scientists theoretize that it is almost certainly a meteor.
Is the meteor catastrophe in Georgia?
Remains of the space site, which are testified by Georgia at about 12:30 local time on Thursday, June 26, may have detached and descended through the roof of a home in Henry County, according to the National Meteorological Service in the city of Peachtree.
A resident in the district located south of Atlanta said that Skala fell through the roof and then pierced through the ceiling, cracking the laminated flooring of the home. As the incident happened around the time that was happening, “we assume a piece of the site has fallen through their roof,” the Meteorological Service said in a Facebook publication.
What was noticed the “fiery ball” over us?
Dashcam took over the moment when a fiery ball slipped through the sky over South Carolina on Thursday afternoon, June 26, as such observations were reported in the Southeastern states.
It is believed that the fiery ball that caught the attention of people in the southeastern US is from the fragmentation of a meteor in the sky, according to meteorologists and other experts.
Bill Cook, the head of NASA’s meteoroid office at the Huntsville Agency Space Flight Center, Alabama, told The New York Times that Space Rock was about three feet in diameter and weighed more than one tone.
The USA Today network left a message on Friday, June 27, with the Marshall Space Flight Center.
Where was the meteorite “Fire Ball” in us?
The American meteor society has received nearly 150 messages for a meteor, bright enough to be seen to sneak through the lunch sky, beginning at noon local time on Thursday, June 26th.
Most of the reports were from Georgia and South Carolina, but several witnessed the site in Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and North Carolina.
The National Meteorological Service in Charleston said on Facebook that its satellite -based lightning -based lightning system shows a “cloudy free -sky series” over Gasburg, Virginia, near the North Carolina state border.
What is a fiery ball? How rarely is the Metor Fire Ball?
Rocks in space are known as meteoroids. If these cosmic rocks enter the earthly atmosphere, they become meteors that penetrate the sky into events, conversationally called “shooting stars”.
Meteors – or fragments of them – who experience their atmospheric journey and land on the surface without burning, become meteorites, according to NASA.
What many had been witnessing recently was a very bright meteor known as a fiery ball. It is relatively rare for fire balls to be spotted on Earth, especially during the day, as objects must usually be at least as bright as Venus in order to be visible to the naked eye, according to the American meteor society.
See video, photos of Fireball shared on social media
The dashboard cameras and the doorbell in the southeast of the United States took over the fiery ball as it slipped through the sky.
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Eric Lagatta is the Space Connect reporter for the USA Today network. Reach it at elagatta@gannett.com
This article originally appeared at Athens Banner-HERAD: Fireball in Georgia? Witness reports also from South Carolina, Florida