A motorist managed to record a meteor that crashed and burned in Bangkok (dok.youtube)
Meteor which later transformed into a giant fireball that burned when he fell from the sky. Meteror is expected entry into the Earth's atmosphere on September 7 yesterday around 8:45 local time.
Citing the site International Business Times, the meteor was so bright and fairly large about 10 meters, but of course it is still smaller than the meteor that hit the Chelyabinsk region of Russia in 2013 ago.
President of the Thai Astronomical Society, Prapee Viraporn has also been confirmed that the phenomenon is not harmful because it is 'just' a small meteor explosion.
While the Chelyabinsk meteor hit the skies of Russia in 2013, has a diameter of 15 meters and produce nearly 30 times more powerful than Hiroshima Nagasaki atomic bomb attacks on Japan.
What astronomers?
Deputy Director of the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, Advice Poshyachinda told CNN that he believes the falling object in the sky Bangkok is a space object.
"As the ongoing asteroid to Earth and when he hit the sky it turns into a fireball," said Poshyachinda.
From video and photographs of evidence fireball meteor that has spread across social media, Poshyachinda estimate the object is on fire about 100 kilometers above the Earth's surface.
"I think he was so heavy, around several kilograms," he continued.
While the report of the Bangkok Post quoted an employee at the Bangkok Planetarium stated that the possibility of a hot air balloon that is on fire. There is also the claim that space debris were also burned while flying toward Earth.
What is clear Bangkok authorities clarified that it was not possible aircraft crashed, because there were no reports of air vehicle such as an airplane or a helicopter that crashed at that time. (cnn)
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