A meteor crossed the atmosphere and fell on Japan …

The meteorite fall– small sizes – on Earth it is a fairly common phenomenon. However, it is rarely recorded in the pictures. This time, in Japan, the moment could be captured in which the star entered the atmosphere.

The fireball, considered to be a fireball (a type of shooting star often compared to the full moon for its brightness), was clearly visible north of Tokyo, specifically in the central Kanto region, in the early hours of this Sunday. It should be noted that he had no impact or injury.

Daichi Fujii, supervisor of the Hiratsuka Museum, is the one who captured the passage of the fireball with a camera installed in his home and explained that the star crossed the sky from west to east. The images have gone viral on social media

The film is almost a minute long and shows the fall of this body from the solar system from different angles: In a starry night, you can see how a bright light appears which increases more and more and then explodes, as if it were some kind of lightning, lighting up the whole sky.

According to the World Meteor Organization, the energy released during the explosion is equivalent to 150 tons of TNT, and the size and mass of the object has been established at 1.5 meters in diameter and 5.5 tons.

Takeshi Inoue, director of Akashi Municipal Planetarium in Hyogo Prefecture, said that while shooting stars brighter than Venus are commonly known as fireballs, they are seldom so bright.

In July, an equally bright shooting star was observed moving southwest to northeast in the sky over Tokyo. It was later identified as a meteor after fragments were discovered in nearby Chiba Prefecture.