Galina Ryabova pointed our attention at a recent daylight fireball event in Russia. On Saturday, April 6, 2019 around 18h50m local time the residents of Krasnoyarsk noticed a bright fireball moving through the sky. Some witnesses heard a noise like the sound of an airplane. The fireball dissolved in the sky and apparently nothing reached the ground. A few weeks ago, on March 15, a similar fireball was observed in the same region over Evenkia.
The event was recorded on many mobile phones and car cams. People were wondering what they saw and discussed the videos they shared on social networks. Most people were aware that it was an exceptional bright meteor and some recalled the Evenki meteorite that fell in March.
Astronomer Vladimir Surdin, an associate professor at Moscow State University, commented that the luminous object was indeed a celestial body, a large meteoroid that entered the Earth atmosphere as a bright meteor. Thanks to the many video cameras, not a single meteor like this can pass unnoticed. The information collected by cameras is very important for science.
According to the testimony of Andrey Brownovsky in Krasnoyarsk, the object crossed the sky with great speed and had a long tail. Another resident of Krasnoyarsk, Dmitry Dmitriev, says that the object displayed a greenish light. The fireball moved so fast that most eyewitnesses had no time to take a camera to make a video or to take a photos. “I thought maybe it is a plane that was on fire. While I was getting the phone out of my pocket, it already disappeared. Most likely, it must have been a meteor” concluded Tatiana Stanovova, a resident of Solnechny.
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