2023-08-11 15:50:00
‘Fireball’ captured by the camera waiting for the supermoon… What is the true identity of a shooting star?
<지난 2일(현지시간) 미국 웨스트버지니아 상공에 보이는 슈퍼문과 화구((火球; Bolides). 사진=빌 스튜어트/American Meteor Society><지난 2일(현지시간) 미국 웨스트버지니아 상공에 보이는 슈퍼문과 화구((火球; Bolides). 사진=빌 스튜어트/American Meteor Society>Early this month, when the second supermoon of the year was observed, an amateur photographer waiting to observe the supermoon captured attention when a shooting star that was bright enough to fill the screen was captured. According to Space.com and Newsweek in the US, amateur astronomy Photographer Bill Stewart was filming the sky over West Virginia, USA, to observe the supermoon around 2 am on the 2nd (local time). Shortly following, he was startled by a sudden roar. A shooting star was falling in the sky with a loud sound. “After one bright flash, it split into three pieces. One of these fragments was accompanied by a bright light until it fell to the floor,” said Bill Cook, a researcher at NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Research Office. It was caused by falling into the Earth and burning up in the atmosphere,” he said. “At its brightest, it was regarding five times brighter than the full moon,” he added. The meteor that fell that day is a ‘fireball’ nicknamed ‘fireball’. It occurs when larger-than-normal meteors fall to Earth, causing strong friction and rapidly burning up in the atmosphere. “Fireballs are often fragments of rock or ice from asteroids or comets,” said Mike Hankey, an amateur astronomer at the American Meteorite Society. In particular, in this case, it is likely to be an asteroid,” he said. “There is a possibility that the meteorite remains and fell in the forest between Kentucky and Tennessee.” Electronic Newspaper Internet Reporter Seo Hee-won shw@etnews.com
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