A meteor exploded over the USA: experts found out where it came from

According to the Deseret News, noise was recorded in Utah at 8:32 a.m. local time. Seismographs excluded

earthquake, and later the NationalThe Salt Lake City weather service released a radar image of two red flashes. However, there was no thunderstorm or lightning in the place where they were recorded.

Later footage from the security cameras of private houses fromThe city of Roy, Utah, recorded a blue fireball in the sky that sweeps through the morning sky just before the explosion. Numerous reports about him were sent by eyewitnesses to the American Meteor Society.

Reports of meteorites discovered as a resultno meteor explosion was reported, although a NASA volunteer told television station KSL-TV that the explosion could have scattered space rock fragments throughout the region. All this makes it difficult to determine where it came from, but Deseret News experts said that the stone came from the Perseid meteor shower.

As the Earth passes through the rubble left behindcomet 109P/Swift-Tuttle, the Perseid meteor shower can be seen in the sky. This happens annually, in July and August. According to the American Meteor Society, most of this "space debris" is very small, but collides with the planet's atmosphere at a speed of 214,360 km/h. This year, the Perseids peaked on August 11th and 12th.

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