The incident occurred in the afternoon hours of Thursday, July 7, with the meteor spotted in the sky over the Cook Strait, which separates the North and South islands of New Zealand.
A rare phenomenon took place some twenty-four hours ago in the New Zealandwith scientists believing that it is probably about meteorite.
In particular, hundreds of New Zealanders reported on social media, describing buzzing, popping sounds, crackling in their ears, noise from the windows of their homes and a flaming ball or huge flash of light in the sky, followed immediately by smoke.
The incident occurred in the afternoon hours of Thursday, July 7, with the meteor spotted in the sky over the Cook Strait, which separates the North and South islands of New Zealand.
The video of the falling meteorite was recorded by camera that a local plumber had on the dashboard of his car. THE flaming ball seen in the footage is believed to be a fragment of a small meteorite, up to a few meters wide, which broke into smaller pieces as it entered the atmosphere, causing a sonic boom as it exploded with a force roughly equivalent to 1,800 tons of TNT.
In fact, the shock wave created by the meteorite was detected by the GeoNet, a network of seismometers used to detect earthquakes. At the same time, the intense flash of light produced by the event was recorded especially by satellites used to detect lightning worldwide.
An interesting signature from the Wellington Radar, at 1:52pm.
This shows a cross-section of the atmosphere, with what may be the smoke trail of the meteor ☄ that passed over the lower North Island.
It’s about the right place and time, and it’s not meteorological. pic.twitter.com/2pY3WqzenT
— MetService (@MetService) July 7, 2022
The meteor probably broke into pieces over the ocean, so its fragments are almost impossible to recover.
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