This afternoon, the Hangzhou Meteorological Observatory announced that summer will begin tomorrow. Today has become the last day of spring in Hangzhou this year.
As the sunset accompanied me on my way to get off work today, many netizens discovered that a fireball flashed across the sky with a tail, which seemed to be a bolide! The same goes for the editor of
, who is currently writing the copywriting of Hangzhou Sunset. Who would have thought that a "shooting star" would come directly from the sky over Hangzhou! I didn’t know where to look for a moment!
There are also many on Weibo. Netizens posted similar content:
I also saw it in the west direction of Chengdu.
Netizen @小pan was taking pictures and commented that at the coordinates of Nanjing, he also saw something streaking past with a strong light in the southwest direction.
netizen @北与 said: I was taking pictures of the sunset and saw a bolide exploding in front of my eyes for about three seconds. The green trajectory was clearly visible in the dusk sky. So shocking.
Just now, @中国 Weather Enthusiasts also posted on Weibo that friends from southern Anhui, northern Zhejiang, southern Jiangsu and other places took photos of bolides streaking across the sky.
The reporter then contacted the Hangzhou Astronomical Society.
"Our meteor monitoring system in Kaihua also captured it." Teacher Chen Jie said that she judged it to be bolide , "It conforms to the characteristics of sporadic, and it goes from dark to bright, becomes brighter in the second half, and finally disappears, leaving behind the characteristics of a wake. The location is probably west of Qiandao Lake and north of Quzhou. This is also an astronomical phenomenon that is accessible to the public, especially in the evening, and its brightness is very high. "
This "meteor" is also very bright. It sparked heated discussions in the Astronomical Society's group.
Mou Xinxiang, a lecturer at the Hangzhou Astronomical Society, also said that after discussions with the Hangzhou Astronomical Society, everyone agreed that this was a bolide.
From everyone’s communication, Mou Xinxiang got the following clues, “It appeared for a short time, its movement speed was much greater than that of ordinary aircraft in the atmosphere, and its brightness was very high.” He said that the time when he discovered this phenomenon was about evening At 6:54, it was not completely dark in Hangzhou at that time. "The brightness is really high. Some members of the society said that the brightness feels similar to that of the moon."
However, it is not yet completely confirmed whether this bolide is a meteorite or an artificial celestial body.
"Because as long as a large enough celestial body enters the atmosphere, it is possible." Mou Xinxiang said that the recent outbreak of solar flares has affected the movement of some man-made celestial bodies, and the possibility of uncontrolled re-entry into the atmosphere has also increased.
Source: Hangzhou News
