8 minutes agoAstronauts record fire - shaped meteor near Earth (Video)
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)This image confirms once again how beautiful the earth looks from outer space. Italian astronaut Paolo Nespol, currently aboard the International Space Station, has published a video of a meteoroid entering the dense atmosphere of our planet over the Atlantic Ocean. We see many meteors from the @Space Station [...]
Italian astronaut Paolo Nespol, currently aboard the International Space Station, has published a video of a meteoroid entering the dense atmosphere of our planet over the Atlantic Ocean.
We see many meteors from the @Space Station but I was never able to get one on camera... this time I got lucky and filmed a #firmball, a very bright and fast meteoroid flashing to #Earth at about 40km/s! Can you spot it? ♪ VITAmission https://t.co/gbMuhPqbL8 Pic.twitter. com/ YyZtUc22Oy
) Paolo Nespoli (@roster paolo) November 16, 2017
He discussed that he was happy to be able to film the heavenly object, which he said was heading towards the Earth at an extraordinary speed, reports “Sputnik International” Transmission Periscope.
space website. com suggested that a fireball could belong either Taurid or the meteor named Leonid, which peaked shortly after Nespol published the video on November 5.
And here a closer look! Make a wish... I already did? I'm so sorry. Io l'ho già fatto? ♪ VITAmission Pic.twitter. com/H0q5f8 h UG9
) Paolo Nespoli (@roster paolo) November 16, 2017
The site quoted Detlef Koschny, co-director of the object's segment near Earth (NEO) Space System Awareness Programme (ESA), saying that the real “looks like a shining meteor, or a fire mess”.
At the same time, Koscny did not rule out that the object could be “a part of restoring waste to”.
According to Rugiger Yehn, another co-director of the program NEO ESA's, the object's speed was “dy faster than a typical meteor”./Periscopi/
