Residents in Mexico and other parts of the Central Mexico were awakened by a loud explosion on Wednesday morning and a bright flash across the sky.
The event was later confirmed by monitoring services as a polite – Exceptionally bright meteorite It will explode in the earth’s atmosphere.
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Carray this morning, at the center of the country, there was a loud sound like an explosion at 04:51.Mexico’s security and webcam cameras seized the number on 03:47:06 as a meteor. pic.twitter.com/0krh04pu1
The event occurred at 3:49 am today, provoking a widespread social media bustling, but there were no immediate reports of damage, wounds, debris or impact sites.
Independent seismic tracking service Warning the Mexican earthquake The sound waves of the eruption through the earthquake drawings, confirmed the social media, which appeared from a pseudonym, which exploded 12 to 25 miles from the earth’s surface.
“Based on reports and our cameras, the explosion in the city of Mexico (maybe a meteorite or meteor) exploded at a height of 20-40 km from the ground, and we confirm that a sound waves were created.” Group X.
As of Wednesday afternoon, Mexico’s Civil Defense Institute and government agencies have not yet made official reports.
Although people in the city of Mexico report the vibrations of Mexico National seismic service The earthquake operations are not recorded.
The sound that was delayed from the bomb blast at high altitude, and throughout the city and other parts of the CDMX metropolitan area, including Ecadebec and Quaddlin Iskalli were heard.
Video footage show the bright object across the sky before the explosion, and some witnesses found the event in Qurtaro and Bachuga, about 185 and 88 kilometers from CDMX respectively.
Social media reports describe the event as a powerful eruption, which caused vibrations, provoking windows and car alarms.
Videos of security cameras and Mexico Webcams Fireball captured the streak, described at least one witness as “a great shooting star.”
Daniel Floreus, a researcher at the Mexico National Autonomous University (UNAM) astronomical company, said that the media, the borels space rocks, reaches the earth’s surface, unlike meteorites, due to atmospheric friction. “These objects are vigorously warmed and creates light and sound, but it is very harmless,” he said.
Experts have insisted that such events are globally common, and annually, 17,000 bolts enter the Earth’s atmosphere, although some are noticed.
The incident brings the mind a The meteorite strike at Tama UL Libas by 2020 And a Meteorite eruption in Russia 500 Kiloton TNT It focuses on the need to monitor the material (NEOS) near the earth (NEOS) in 2013-which caused widespread damage and injuries.
Mexico will be home The seventh largest meteorite that has not yet been found on earth, The Bacubirito meteorite, It weighs 20 to 22 tonnes; It is the third largest and 4.25 meters away, the longest meteorite has ever seen. In 1863 discovered by a farmer near the city of Sinalova, which was placed Sinalova Science Center.
Can enjoy the lust on Mexico’s meteorites The meteor museum, Or the meteorite museum, Progress, Urukadan, has been opened.
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