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Meteor streaks across skies, causes bright flash Sunday morning
WBRZ • • technology
Key Points:
- Early Sunday morning in southeast Louisiana, residents witnessed a bright green fireball with a fiery trail and a subsequent flash around 5:00 a.m.
- The phenomenon was caused by a large meteoroid entering Earth's atmosphere, creating an exceptionally bright streak known as a fireball, sometimes called a bolide if it ends in an explosion.
- Fireballs occur when space rocks heat up and fragment due to friction and pressure as they descend, with most vaporizing before reaching the ground, though some fragments may survive as meteorites.
- Astronomers will analyze data to confirm whether any meteorite fragments reached the ground and to classify the object observed in the early morning sky.
