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The meteor was visible for half a minute over Puerto Rico

Added Tue, 20/07/2021
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A bright meteor was seen around 4: 55 am this Friday. Visible from all over the island, the fireball attracted the attention of those who got up early, because of its large size and duration.

"Although most meteorites are only visible for a few seconds. This event was significant because the images we were able to take show that they were visible for 27 seconds. 

Eddie Irisari, vice president of the Caribbean Astronomical Society (SAC), said:

"It looked bigger and bigger, it didn't look like an ordinary meteorite," said Idale Correa, who watched the stunning sight from Guayanila during a training session.

The director of the center explained that, despite the durability of the meteorite, it was not space debris, but a natural meteorite, that is, a space rock that decays in the atmosphere. He estimated that it was a" rock " with a diameter of two to five meters, and its trajectory showed that it began to disintegrate 70 miles above the northwest of the island near Isabella and moved east towards Culebra.

Several cameras located in different parts of the island show that it started showing at 4: 55 with 35 seconds and peaked at 4:56 with 2 seconds. 

"The sky has practically moved from one end to the other," said Juan Gonzalez Alicia, president of SAC.

The educational institution explained that the durability of the meteor was explained by the fact that it was larger than those that cause ordinary observations of a meteor, since it penetrated our atmosphere at a very indirect angle, almost from the side, as a result of which the decay took a long time.

Alex Guadeloupe from SAC had the privilege of observing it from the suburbs and was surprised not only by its external size and wide tail, but also by the fact that it had a turquoise-green color, which, according to SAC, indicates that there is magnesium and/or copper in the rock.

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