Indiana
American Meteor Society confirms fireball over central Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A shiny burst of sunshine noticed over central Indiana early Wednesday morning was a meteor, the American Meteor Society has confirmed to Information 8.
Skywatchers from Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Ohio reported seeing the meteor at round 2:20 a.m., in keeping with information from the meteor society’s web site.
Movies of the occasion “most undoubtedly” present a fireball, says Robert Lunsford, a member of the American Meteor Society.
“A fireball…is a meteor that’s bigger and brighter than regular,” Lunsford instructed Information 8.
Lunsford says one of many witnesses near the projected path of the fireball reported listening to sounds coming from it, “which signifies that it survived all the way down to the decrease ambiance and should have let small fragments referred to as meteorites on the bottom.”
The American Meteor Society estimates that roughly 50,000 fireballs enter the earth’s ambiance yearly, however most of them go unseen as a result of they seem throughout daylight or over unpopulated areas just like the ocean.