It is believed to be a bolide (bright meteor) that is part of the Lyrid shower that will reach its peak in the coming days
Why does Russia seem to get particularly bright meteors? An area of 17 million square kilometers makes it the largest country in the world, and in addition, the insurance companies requiring the installation of a camera on the car to prevent insurance fraud, causes the Russians, statistically, to capture more meteors with the lens and therefore they can also share their experience with the rest of the world.
The event occurred on April 19 in the early morning when a bright fireball flashed in the sky over Murmansk, located on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia, near the border with Finland. Fortunately, it was not large, so the explosion of the meteor in the sky did not come close to the force of the meteor that hit Chelyabinsk in February 2013. No sound was heard and no shockwaves from the meteor were felt and no reports of any casualties were given.
The details about the object are still unknown, most likely it is indeed a meteor, but it is possible that it is a fragment from a satellite that entered the atmosphere. In the attached video taken by Alexander Nestrov from his car camera, you can see an object clearly lighting up the night sky. It is estimated that this is a particularly strong bull in the meteor shower for fairs, which reaches its peak on April 22-23.
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they are not.
2 reasons for this perception
1. There are relatively many dashboard cameras there, so the chances of it being caught in a photo are higher.
2. Russia is a country with a large area. Therefore, the chance that something will fall in its territory and not in the territory of another country is greater. According to the ratio between the sizes of the countries (assuming that the distribution of the falls is equal over the entire planet)
Why do all the meteors fall in Russia? (including the one a few decades ago that was as powerful as several atomic bombs...)
very weird.