Bright flashes of light filled Karachi’s night sky in the early hours of Monday when people saw and shared images of meteorites in the sky.
Local social networks were flooded with images and videos of meteors that scratch in the sky before disappearing in an instant. A resident captured the show in the camera outside his house, while a driver on a main road recorded him on his board.
Meteorology analyst Jawad Memon explained that meteorites were space waste, usually of very small size, and most of them broke like very small pieces of rocks of a larger asteroid.
“On the night of March 17 at 2:43 am, a similar meteorite was seen on Karachi’s sky and, like thousands of others that have been seen worldwide, burned on the skies of Karachi creating a blue -tone light streak during the ardent process.”
He explained that the spatial debris or any other object that will enter the atmosphere of the Earth is burned when it meets the gravitational force of the planet and turns on due to the friction created by its very high fall speed.
“In general, due to light pollution, they often cross innotable in large cities like Karachi, but last night it was larger, therefore, it took time to burn completely.”
He said the phenomenon was seen not only in Karachi but in many other areas of southern Sindh.
Similarly, the member of the Karachi Astronomers Society, Aposel Shafiq Dawn.com The sightings were very real along with all the videos shared by those who are lucky enough to have caught it in the camera.
He said that this was not always the case of whether all meteors were so bright. “But maybe this was larger, maybe two to three meters long. The light generated from it was its burning of the friction generated when entering the atmosphere, ”he said.
Pointing out the difference between a meteorite and a meteorite, he said. “Many call it a meteorite, but a meteorite reaches the ground. A meteorite burns in the air. It does not fall to the ground, ”he explained.
“It may not be a common fact in a city like Karachi, also known as the ‘City of Lights’, but we see many meteors in remote areas where there are barely a population or lights of the city, as well as observatories,” he said.
