Meteor Lights Illuminate The sky Throughout Midwest

Jum'at, 16 April 2010 | 13:52 WIB

TEMPO Interactive, Milwaukee - A large meteor radiating throughout the Midwestern United States to change the sky became bright sky, the house creaked and shook the trees and the ground, authorities said Thursday, but no reported injuries.

Witnesses said the meteor that lit the sky at 10 pm Wednesday. Offices throughout the Midwest National Weather Service said the meteorite can be seen from southwestern Wisconsin and northern Iowa to Missouri.

Radar information stating that a meteor landed in southwestern Wisconsin, Grant or Lafayette area, said Ashley Sears, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Milwaukee. Officials in both districts said no one had seen a meteor fragments or craters.

Lafayette Regional investigator Scott Pedley said his office received many reports of a very bright light in the sky followed by the houses and land to rock.

"There are reports of four to five minutes or thunderous explosion," he said. He could not tell the origin of that voice, but speculated it was probably a meteor explosion sound.

A camera in the car at the Howard Area Iowa investigators arrested a cursory view of the fireball. In the video, the object is moving toward the ground, then inflate and glow in an explosion before disappearing behind trees.

James Lattis, director of the University of Wisconsin Space Place in Madison said, mentioning the object of history was possible only softball-sized balls or basketballs.

"This thing is small," said Lattis. She said the meteor shower could produce a series that can be viewed from a distance even if the burning object about the size of grains of sand.

Lattis say that since the meteor exploded Wednesday, he likely will not be able to put together. Unless the mess falls on the roof, car, yard or other conspicuous place, they are indistinguishable from other rocks in the soil.

"In that case, only luck if someone can recognize it," he said.

Keungkinan ray Lattis said there was not a meteor, but a floating objects such as satellites. Something that should be asked to NASA.

Some people initially speculated that the object is a part of the meteor shower for two weeks underway. However Lattis said that might not be part of Gamma Virginids rain because he came from the opposite direction.

Gamma Virginids rain started 4 April and is expected to last until 21 April. Thursday is expected to become the second activity peak.