Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
Fireball jshape caught fire and crossed the skies in the southeastern US last Tuesday (9/11) during the moment Taurid Meteor shower decorate the sky.
Data from the United States Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows that the fireball or meteor passed along 300 kilometers in the air.
This phenomenon occurs when the world’s sky is decorated with the Taurid meteor shower season, which will last until the end of November.
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama captured the fireball with NASA’s meteor camera and shared it in a tweet. A map also shows the trajectory of the fireball that stretched across George and Alabama before ending over the town of Lutts, Tennessee.
“On Tuesday night, people in the Southeastern US may have seen a fireball race across the sky! The meteor was seen by 3 NASA meteor cameras, and traveled 186 miles in the air and ended 34 miles over the city of Lutts,” NASA wrote.
NASA Meteor Watch, a group that brings together the work of meteor experts and amateur meteor watchers, posted an update on the fireball on Facebook the next day, Wednesday (11/10).
“Last night’s fireballs over Georgia and Alabama were what we call earth herders, where the meteor’s trajectory was so shallow that it only glided across the upper atmosphere for long distances,” NASA Meteor Watch wrote via its Facebook page.
The group also called the phenomenon a rare and fortunate event for those who witnessed it firsthand.
NASA Meteor Watch also shared video from the meteor camera at the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, showing the trail of the fireball.
Reported from Cnet, currently the night sky, is in good fireball watching season as the Taurid meteor shower is underway.
The Taurid meteor shower is caused by dust and debris from ancient comets. When those tiny pieces hit the atmosphere, they can burn into bright “shooting stars”.
This meteor shower is active from September 25 to November 25, with the maximum intensity occurring on November 13 at 07.25 WIB / 08.25 WITA / 09.25 WIT.
The intensity of the Taurid meteor shower ranges from 3-4 meteors per hour for the territory of Indonesia, this is because the height of the radian point during transit varies between 57 degrees to 74 degrees.
Make sure the field of view is free from obstructions, light pollution and clouds when observing this meteor shower.
But to watch it, you don’t need to use any tools unless you want to record. To record the phenomenon of the Taurid meteor shower, you can use an all-sky camera with a 360-degree field of view, which is directed to the zenith.
(mrh/ex)
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