BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – Widespread studies and movies of a fiery path noticed within the skies over south Louisiana left many questioning what that they had witnessed on Saturday night time. Was it a comet? Santa doing a check run? Or maybe, one thing else? The path is seen clearly on this video despatched in by WAFB viewer Montrice Davis.
There isn’t any official dedication as of late Saturday night time, however my educated guess is that the path was ‘area junk’. That might go away you asking, what’s area junk? NASA says the next about area junk:
“There are hundreds of thousands of items of area junk flying in LEO. Most orbital particles includes human-generated objects, equivalent to items of spacecraft, tiny flecks of paint from a spacecraft, elements of rockets, satellites which might be now not working, or explosions of objects in orbit flying round in area at excessive speeds.”
The American Meteor Society maintains a log of ‘fireball’ studies, or vibrant meteors. Even although my finest guess is that the path seen on Saturday night time was area junk and never a meteor, the AMS web site reveals is was seen in a number of southern states, from Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, to maybe as far north as Tennessee.
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