A Meteorite Brightens the Night Sky, Falling into a Village in China Like a “Fireball.”
Recently, Newsflare released a video captured on December 15, showing a meteorite illuminating the night sky and falling to the ground like a “fireball” in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, China.
Currently, no injuries have been reported.
The “fireball” was seen streaking across the sky for just a few seconds before crashing to Earth, burning with a brightness exceeding that of a full moon. The meteorite, which did not completely burn up upon landing, created a crater approximately 8 cm in diameter on the concrete floor at the entrance of a farmer’s home in the village. The meteorite was found to be 8 cm long and weighed 1.7 kg.
The meteorite fragment found after it fell.
Zhang Baolin, a senior meteorite expert at the Beijing Planetarium and a research scientist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told local media that the meteorite may have originated from the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars.
Zheng Yongchun, deputy director of the Space Science Communication Expert Workshop and a scientific expert, provided a preliminary assessment after examining the meteorite fragment, stating that this meteorite is approximately 4.6 billion years old, making it older than all the rocks on Earth.
