Meteor two meters in diameter fell at Oberlin College in Ohio, USA, 20.08 local time, Tuesday, January 16, 2018. US Space Agency (NASA) officials confirmed that NASA meteor cameras recorded the incident. The picture shows a tiny white ball passing through a bright flash of light.
At the same time, a US geological survey reported a Meteorite M 2.0 crashed at a location about 5 miles west of New Haven, Connecticut, USA. The chairman of the NASA meterorid environmental office Bill Cooke in Alabama was shocked to hear it. "This must be a meteorid," Cooke said, as reported by the Detroit News page on Tuesday, January 16, 2018.
The light that comes with a loud explosion in Michigan is visible up to New York city and parts of Canada on Tuesday night, January 16, 2018, when a meteor enters the Earth's atmosphere. The incident is a major event that is astronomically a rare sight for Michigan. It was suddenly crowded talked about in social media that mengaitkannya with UFOs.
Cooke estimates the falling meteoride is about one or two meters in diameter, weighing more than a ton and traveling a distance of up to 40,000 to 50,000 miles (60-85 thousand kilometers) to Earth. "In Michigan they rarely see the incident," Cooke said. Different with anywhere else on the planet. "It may happen several times in each month."
One of the townspeople of Milford, Mike Tarkowski, explained that the light was an unusual sight. "At about 20:10 I saw a very bright light," he said who was sitting watching TV.
Tarkowski describes a sudden situation illuminating his entire yard with a yellowish tinge. "Like the flash, then back dark," said Tarkowski. "It's something big and floating in the air."
NASA defines the falling star or meteor as a piece of interplanetary material that penetrates the Earth's atmosphere. The object called meteroid, gliding through space, then becomes a meteor for several seconds then passes through the sky and emits light along the way.