Friday, September 11, 2015
Great ball of fire spotted in the sky over Bangkok
A large, bright fireball was seen streaking across the northern sky of Bangkok, Thailand, at about 8.40am on Monday.
Reports came from many different localities.
An astronomer said that the fireball might be a meteor streaking down through the atmosphere.
An official at the Bangkok Planetarium, however, said there had been no
reports of a meteorite landing. Most meteors completely burn up in the
atmosphere. If one did crash to earth, it would probably be noticed, he
said.
Saran Poshyachina, the deputy director of the National Astronomical
Research Institute of Thailand, said the fireball could be a meteorite
landing. But he also did not rule out the possibility it could be space
junk.
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