A bright powerhouse shot across the Nox sky over the UK and Ireland Wednesday eve trigger off almost 800 reports of a possible meteor to the UK Meteor connection . The spectacle , captured in multiple telecasting and share online , is now being investigate by scientists . Whether it was a visiting space sway orspace junkis not yet certain .
“ presently the panel is still out about whether the fireball over Scotland is a meteorite or a bit of space rubble . It had a really shallow entering angle , was seeable for a long time ( 20 sec ) , and break up a lot , ” Dr Luke Daly , Lecturer in Planetary Geoscience at the University of Glasgow , told IFLScience .
" At the moment , we ’re leaning towards ameteoriteas although it is slow , it ’s still going quite fast : a typical large bit of space detritus would take 2 minutes to cross the sky not 20 seconds and we would also look outer space junk tofragment even morethan this did . We ’re hop-skip to get a calculation of the speed and orbit soon that will tell us more conclusively if this was a space rock candy or a space not . ”
However , the UK Meteor internet is stray toward blank space debris .
If indeed it ’s a shooting star , it might have left some meteorite behind like the famousWinchcombe meteorite , which was notice thanks to the prompt study of the UK Fireball Alliance . If a piece of the fireball has reached Scots grease , it would be the first meteorite found in the rural area in 100 years . scientist are n’t get their hopes up just yet though .
“ Unfortunately , whatever it turns out to be , the shallow entree angle means it is likely that it all burn up , and even if anything survive it ’s in all likelihood make its way to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean , " Dr Daly told IFLScience . " So lamentably , no plans in movement for a hunting just yet . Once more data comes in and we get a robust idea of what it is , if anything survived , and if it land on land we ’ll sure be going out to check but right now I ’m just rewatching all the incredible footage of this fireball .
It ’s probable that fireball in the night sky will be on the rise thanks to the sheer act of objects , not least the number of satellite being sent to space by Elon Musk et al . , being sent up . finally , what run upmust come down .
