A meteorite exploded and lit up the Brazilian sky | the Chronicle

Human beings have always been amazed by anything that comes from the sky. The same thing happened in the municipality of Taquara, in the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, which was the epicenter of a phenomenon that astonished locals and foreigners.

The event occurred in the early hours of this Monday, the local Heller & Jung observatory captured the exact moment a meteorite exploded while crossing the country’s sky.

The meteorite exploded on the border between the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay. According to expert calculations, the explosion recorded a magnitude of -7 degrees of brightness, which is considered extremely high.

The local environment Or balloon, experts in the field pointed out that when the body passed through Earth’s atmosphere, its diameter was probably less than one meter. Likewise, it was clarified that its explosion could have occurred at an altitude of 94.4 kilometers and its duration was 1.05 seconds.

“With the fall of this meteor of great magnitude, it is verified that this year there was [en el lugar] the largest number of large-magnitude meteorites since 2016, when the observatory began operating “added Carlos Fernando Jung, director of the Brazilian Meteorite Monitoring Network.

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