That was quite a surprise.
Around 4 am Thursday good morning , a massive fireball light up the sky between Phoenix and Tuscon . It was accompanied by a gravy that shook windows and woke people for miles in every guidance . Almost immediately people commence post video of the blinding light and the unusual trail left in its wake .
fleck of meteoroid ranging in size from pebble to grapefruit rained down in the townsfolk of Cibecue , Laurence Garvie , curator of the Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University , told theAssociated Press . Garvie believe that this was n’t a part of a meteor exhibitor , but a single infinite rock that intersected with Earth ’s cranial orbit .
NASA count on that the minor asteroid ( tumid than a shooting star ) was around 10 foot across , weighed tens of ton , and was move at 40,200 miles an hour .
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“ There are no reports of any damage or trauma — just a lot of luminousness and few sonic thunder , ” Bill Cooke , NASA ’s Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center , toldTucson ’s KPHO . “ If Doppler radar is any indication , there are almost for sure meteorites dust on the ground north of Tucson . ”
Not many hoi polloi were out at 4 am to capture the upshot , but some good footage has been dig up from various sprint cams and surety footage .
In gain to videos of the flash , many residents drag themselves out of bed to capture the eerie trails the astroid forget in the morning sky .
Now , Arizonans will have to get out there and grasp up some meteors to makeKing tsk another blade .
