A fireball 100 times brighter than the moon in the Colorado sky

Second explosion of a large meteor over North America in two weeks - on December 6, a bright meteor exploded over Arizona and was recorded by an observatory video camera

On December 6, there was an explosion of a bright ball in the Colorado sky. A large meteor exploded in the atmosphere causing it to shine 100 times brighter than the moon. To such an event, as expected, there were many eyewitnesses and the Cloudbate Observatory, located about 5 kilometers north of the city of Goofy in Colorado, addressed the residents of the area and asked those who saw it to report the fireball. Fortunately, the observatory itself was able to capture the event with a video camera that photographed the entire sky at those early morning hours.

The fireball in Colorado exploded about a total of two weeks later The great meteor explosion over western Canada on November 20th, and its fragments fell on a large agricultural area. The assumption is that fragments will be found from this meteor as well, and testimonies from observers will allow the narrowing of the range and quick detection of the fragments.
Fortunately, most of the time there is no such thing as a harmful phenomenonIt's not that rare either, but it is spectacular, especially when it occurs in a populated area. and fortunately, In North America There are also many observers who can report and even cameras that record the entire sky, so it is harder to miss an event like this.

Astronomer Chris Peterson from the Cloudbate Observatory said that "in the seven years that the observatory has been operating, this is the brightest fireball ever recorded. I estimate the luminosity of the object at the time of the explosion as minus 18, that is, 100 times brighter than the full moon.

Peterson was using a video camera designed to spot meteors when the surprisingly bright object lit up the sky. Although the camera caught the fireball during its movement, a lot of information will still be required about its location and the height at which the explosion occurred. Peterson also says that there is a high probability of scattering the meteor fragments over a large area, and therefore meteor hunters will be able to help locate them.

The editor's note of the science site - In July of this year, a large and bright meteor was observed in Israel, But luckily it didn't explode.

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