Your account isn't active yet. We've emailed you an activation link. Please check your inbox and click the link to activate your accountburst in the sky, the extreme solar storm that brought the best auroras in 20 years, and now an unexpected movie-like event, with a piece of a comet suddenly turning the night skies in Portugal and Spain bright blue.
“This is insane. Early reports claim that the blue flash could be seen darting through the night sky for hundreds of kilometers. At the moment, it has not been confirmed if it hit the Earth’s surface however some reports say it may have fallen near the town of Castro Daire. Other reports say it was closer to Pinheiro,”
The Spanish Observatorio de Calar Alto also confirmed that the “object had a cometary origin.” The observatory believes that the fireball first became visible as it burned up over Europe at an altitude of 122 km and then lit up the sky for the next several seconds as it fragmented and flamed out by the time it was at a height of 54 km .
When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere or another planet at high speed and burn up, the fireballs that look like ‘shooting stars’ are called meteors. According to scientists, an48.5 tons of meteoritic material falls on Earth every day. Meteor showers occur annually as the Earth passes through the trail of dusty debris left by comets, and perhaps the most famous are the Perseids, with their peak in August.
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