It was 4:35 am Friday May 29 when a meteor streaked the sky of Vannes, under the eyes of a resident of the city of Morbihan, reports West France.
The luminous phenomenon was filmed by twelve French cameras from the FRIPON network, but that of Vannes did not activate when the meteor passed for reasons – perhaps technical – still unknown. It is a network intended to observe the movements of the sky.
“A pebble that heats up”
Thomas Appéré, Vannes and doctor of planetology, associate professor of physics and chemistry, is responsible for the FRIPON network for Morbihan.
AT West France, he explains that the phenomenon observed on the night of May 29 is comparable to a “pebble which gradually heats up in the sky in several hundreds or thousands of pieces. It looks like it explodes then disappears”.
We then speak of a meteorite when these pieces of “pebble” reach Earth.
140,000 km / h
According to the data which could have been collected thanks to the surveillance network, the meteor was passing at a speed of 40 km / s, or some 140,000 km / h, when it was seen at Vannes, when it was actually passing at above Rouen, according to the scientist. The phenomenon has been observed up to Switzerland.
To try to observe a meteor, you have to be patient and look up: “There are almost every night”, according to Thomas Appéré. It is still necessary to scrutinize the sky to have a chance to attend.
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