Bright trail in the Sardinian skies: a meteorite is burned in contact with the atmosphere
The fireball lit up part of the sky, after having "dissolved" in a north-east direction
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Last night at about 19:59, a very bright meteor was spotted in various locations in Sardinia which illuminated part of the sky.
Upon entering the atmosphere, the meteorite seems to be completely burned giving rise to a luminous trail.
Some spectators of this phenomenon have said that they have observed the dissolution of the meteor in the North-West direction.
Commonly called Shooting Stars, due to their resemblance to a moving star, meteors are fragments of dust and ice that date back to the origins of the Solar System.
The meteor, shot in southern Sardinia by photographers Gianpiero Concas and Lorenzo Busilacchi , was reported to the IMO, the World Meteor Organization and to INAF, the National Institute of Astrophysics , in order to evaluate its size, trajectory and energy. released.
It is estimated that every year hundreds of tons of meteorites and space dust fall on Earth.
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