Indonesia: Capture the moment a meteorite …

the Merapi volcano, one of the volcanoes aIndonesian ctives, made headlines this week when it was unveiled a video that captured the moment a meteor suddenly fell from the sky on top of the crater. The images have gone viral on social media.

The phenomenon occurred on the night of last Thursday, May 27, and the images were captured by the security cameras of the company Megadata.

In them you can see the imposing profile of Merapi against the sky of the city of Yogyakarta, in the heart of the island of Java, when suddenly a luminous ball lights up in the sky near its summit and disappears behind the rear slope of the “mountain of fire”.

The shocking flash of the meteor was also captured by Indonesian professional photographer Gunarto Song, who could take pictures in which it can be seen as a brilliant greenish line that appears to be embedded in the upper crater of the volcano.

“Does a meteor fall on the top of the Merapi volcano?” Song wonders on his Instagram account, which accompanied his commentary with three photos of the car on its dizzying descent after the volcano.

Song is a fan of the Merapi volcano and was stationed near this mountain for four months, from February to May. Thursday night, he was taking pictures with a full moon view which gave him excellent visibility.

“I saw all of a sudden, it was a very bright light falling up and down in the space of a second. Very bright and fastThe photographer said, according to local media. Coil.

In strictly astronomical terms, and beyond what the images suggest, there was no trace of meteorites colliding in the area.. Sleman Class I geophysical station observer Arin Kuncahyani said surveillance of the area did not record vibrations related to the suspected meteorite.

The 2,900-meter-high volcano in January this year complicated residents by erupting, spewing clouds of ash and spewing out rivers of lava.. The biggest tragedy in recent times took place in 2010, when 240 residents were killed. In 1930, during this time, another of its violent eruptions caused the tragic death toll of 1,400.