But are you sure this is a meteorite? NASA only discovered this a few hours before it hit the ground.
Last Saturday night, the western suburbs of Johannesburg witnessed a rare sight: a meteorite that had disintegrated in the atmosphere landed on the ground, exploding in the sky. Video taken from the area’s surveillance system gave us a scene no different from the movie.
Rare image: A piece of meteorite hits the ground, lighting up an entire sky.
This meteorite was only discovered by NASA a few hours after it hit the Earth. Fortunately, it is very small, only 1.8 meters in diameter, so most of the meteorite has already disintegrated in the atmosphere.
A little bit of cosmic information to make you feel small (and anxious): within our Solar System alone, there are thousands of meteorites up to nearly a kilometer across, and if they’re headed for the real Earth. , then there are only a few days to prepare from the time it is discovered until it comes knocking on our door. At that time, the results will not be as surprising as the video above, but will be very unpredictable.