SEE IT: Meteor bursting into flames is captured on camera as it lights up sky over Thailand, A mystery fireball caught on camera over Thailand is believed to have been a meteor burning up, according to experts.
Spectacular footage from several dashcams captured the sky lighting up over the country’s capital of Bangkok.
The object is seen burning brightly as it speeds through the clear blue sky, and scientists now say it was likely an asteroid burning up as it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere.
"It looks like an asteroid traveling to Earth and grazing through the air and it turned into a fireball," Saran Poshyachinda, Deputy Director of National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, told CNN.It was almost certainly a good-sized rock burning up in our atmosphere," said Phil Plait, a former member of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Team, reported the Bangkok Post.
"It only took two seconds or so for it to go from being visible to it flaring as it disintegrated. It may have had a steep angle of entry."
Spectacular footage from several dashcams captured the sky lighting up over the country’s capital of Bangkok.
The object is seen burning brightly as it speeds through the clear blue sky, and scientists now say it was likely an asteroid burning up as it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere.
"It looks like an asteroid traveling to Earth and grazing through the air and it turned into a fireball," Saran Poshyachinda, Deputy Director of National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, told CNN.It was almost certainly a good-sized rock burning up in our atmosphere," said Phil Plait, a former member of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Team, reported the Bangkok Post.
"It only took two seconds or so for it to go from being visible to it flaring as it disintegrated. It may have had a steep angle of entry."
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