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A few days ago a luminous celestial body collapsed into Lake Baikal, which the locals habitually took even for a UFO. Accurate data on the fallen body of the Irkutsk planetarium in its report published only today.
Scientists write that it was a car that was noticed by the Astronomical ISU Observatory at an altitude of about sixty seven kilometers, after which at a height of sixty-two kilometers a meteor was lost. He walked along the rotation of the Earth, so this caused him comparatively low speed that did not exceed thirteen kilometers per second, and then fell altogether to ten kilometers in give me a sec.
The brightest car was minus 4.5 m, which is slightly brighter than Venus, says an employee of the observatory Kirill Ivanov. Meteor size not exceeded ten centimeters in diameter, and mass – no more kilograms.
As a result of filming processing, you can trace the trajectory flight of a car, which in the picture is shown by a red arrow.
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Scientists also found that the orbital period of the celestial body before its collision with our planet amounted to almost three years, flew he is from the main steroid belt. From his true path, most likely tore out the “evil” influence of Jupiter.
Locals who observed the meteorite say that he burned for ten seconds, and from it at that moment separated a small piece that burned faster, and the object itself continued flight for some time, and he flew with a reddish tail and as if tangent to the surface of the Earth. As the resident says Angarska Victor, at first we took him for a UFO, that is, for alien aircraft, but soon the object broke up into two parts, and it became clear that this is just a meteor. But see it’s still very interesting …
