Discussions about the mysterious green object that flew over Moscow on October 27 do not end. Astronomers continue to study the nature of its origin (see video here). Two versions have already been put forward: space debris and an exploded meteorite. Now a new scenario has emerged.
Stanislav Korotky, scientific director of the Ka-Dar observatory, manually measured the coordinates of the object at moments of bright flash and concluded that it was definitely not space debris. According to him, Muscovites saw a “meteorite of natural origin”, whose flight lasted 33 seconds.
“Judging by the multiple fragmentation (many flashes) and the large number of visible individual fragments, fragments of this object must have reached the Earth’s surface. The debris most likely occurred in the Novgorod region,” says the Observational Astronomy Telegram channel.
It is stated that the object must have “bounced” from the Earth’s atmosphere. “That’s why the fireball flew for so long and gradually sank into the Earth’s atmosphere,” Stanislav Korotky said, adding that the meteoroid either lost enough speed in the upper layers of the atmosphere and then fell to Earth, or lost an insignificant speed and flew further into space.
Source: People Talk
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