2023-08-08 16:11:11
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SPACE DEBRIS – A ball of fire lit up the skies over Melbourne in the Australian state of Victoria. On the night of Monday August 7 to Tuesday August 8, around midnight, the inhabitants of the city thought they saw a meteorite. Many videos have circulated regarding it on social networks.
The orange color that can be seen in these images, however, indicates that it is not an asteroid, but rather metal or plastic on fire, meaning that the object is of human origin. It is therefore only space debris that has entered the atmosphere.
Debris of Russian origin
Some residents felt a jolt, and a resounding explosion was heard throughout the state of Victoria, at the southern tip of Australia: this phenomenon is called a sonic boom, that is to say the noise an object when it breaks the sound barrier. This occurs when the speed of the object is faster than that of sound.
American astronomer Jonathan McDowell estimated on Twitter the origin of this space debris. According to him, it might be part of a Soyuz-2 rocket carrying the GLONASS-K2 navigation satellite to place it in orbit, launched by the Russian space agency Rocosmos on August 7.
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The Australian Space Agency has confirmed this explanation by detailing that said Russian rocket was launched from the Cosmodrome of Plesetsk, in the North West of Russia. The rocket was expected to re-enter the atmosphere and land in the ocean off the state of Tasmania, located just below the state of Victoria and Melbourne.
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