a meteor can be seen in the early evening of Thursday (8) crossing the sky of three states in Brazil. O space phenomenon was spotted by Live Weather cameras and the Brazilian Meteor Watch Network (Bramon).
The cameras that captured the images of the meteor on its way are located in the municipalities of Florianópolis, Morro Grande and Monte Castelo, in Santa Catarina; Telemaco Borba, in Paraná; and in Cerqueira César, Pardinho and Nhandeara, in the state of São Paulo.
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With an “All Sky” camera, which covers the entire sky, Luiz Duda also managed to capture the moment of meteor pass, direct from Ponta Grossa, Paraná. In the image, it is possible to see the luminous trail left by the meteor in a larger size, together with a smaller one, at the top, of the Hubble Space Telescope.
In published column no Digital Look, astronomer Marcelo Zurita, member of the Brazilian Astronomical Society (SAB) and technical director of Bramon, explained that we are experiencing an increase in asteroid and meteor detection, but this is not the sign of the end of time.
But what is a meteor? Asteroids and comets are objects that orbit the Sun at high speeds, between 40,000 km/h and 266,000 km/h. When reaching the Earth’s atmosphere at this speed, even small fragments, such as grains of sand, can heat atmospheric gases, generating the luminous phenomenon that receives the name of meteor, popularly known as shooting star.
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“Asteroid is a piece of space rock orbiting the Sol, which can measure from one meter to hundreds of kilometers. Those smaller than one meter are called meteoroids. When they reach Earth’s atmosphere, asteroids and meteoroids generate a luminous phenomenon known as a meteor. The difference between them is subtle,” said Zurita.
The bigger the object, brighter is the meteor. “They have been increasingly detected, by telescopes that look for asteroids close to Earth, and by cameras that record the passage of meteors through the atmosphere,” added the astronomer.
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