“Experts don t know what it is.” A surprising fireball over Australia. “The meteor was half a kilometer in diameter.” Nonsense, nonsense, nonsense
For several days, more media have been reporting a "surprising fireball", "green and blue fireball", "mysterious fireball" that flew over Australia. Although the phenomenon itself was not unusual, the way the media described it shows how rarely we look at the sky and how much we do not know what we can see on it. The meteor phenomenon was recorded using a mobile phone by Mitch Brune Port Headland in Australia. In the film lasting a few seconds we see a long, bright streak illuminating the night sky over Australia. Such a trace is left behind by the meteoroid, which while traveling through the Solar System encountered an earthly atmosphere on its way. After entering the atmosphere, on the one hand, vapors escaping from the meteoroid surface begin to shine, and on the other, ionized atmosphere gases along the entire flight path. What is a meteor? Most often we see the meteor phenomenon in the form of the so-called shooting stars, short delicate lines...