Earlier this Monday A small asteroid lights up the sky near Rouen, France. creating a light show captured by the watchful cameras of several observers.
Officially a meteoroid (because it is less than a kilometer in diameter), so called Sar2667 It was the seventh object whose influence on Earth was foretold.
Why did the one-metre-long object, estimated to “safely reach” Earth’s atmosphere by the European Space Agency (ESA), enter about 4 kilometers off the northwest coast of France, according to the International Meteor Organization? a “fireball” effect when it hits our protective layer of air.
??@esaoperations reported a 1 meter meteorite before it entered Earth’s atmosphere over northern France earlier this morning: only 7. #asteroid impact predicted – but a sign of rapid advances in global detection capabilities! #fireball #sar2667 https://t.co/MzYoIkRaF2
— ESA (@esa) February 13, 2023
Announcement and celebration
Celebrated by the ESA on Twitter as “a sign of rapid advances in global asteroid detection capabilities”, the arrival of Sar2667 was already eagerly awaited by a large number of observers, who immediately began sharing images of the entry with descriptions of the species. “lit up the sky with a gorgeous flash of pink”.
According to the European Space Agency, there are at least 30,600 of these nearby objects orbiting our planet. When they enter our atmosphere and cause these “explosions”, they are officially called meteors. For this reason, many observing systems, such as the new La Silla Observatory in Chile, are integrated with the European Southern Observatory (ESO). Protect the earth from potentially dangerous objects.
In addition to passive protection, NASA also conducted the first successful test of planetary defense technology in September last year when it sent the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft to collide with the 9.6 million asteroid Dimorphos. kilometer changes course.
The approximately one meter diameter asteroid Sar2667 was expected to crash near Le Havre, France at 02:59 UTC. I went to a photogenic spot near my home in the south of the Netherlands to catch it as the sky cleared.#asteroid #meteor @IMOmeteors @apod pic.twitter.com/MNZofhkrd7
— Gijs de Reijke (@GijsDeReijke) February 13, 2023
Source: Tec Mundo
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