Glowing meteor fall in southwest China night celebration of the Chinese Moon Festival

Residents in southwestern China were surprised by the appearance of a fireball in the sky as they stared at the moon's full moon to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, known as the Moon Festival, one of the most popular Chinese festivals celebrated on Wednesday night.

The fireball was an incandescent meteorite in the sky at very high speed around 8:00 p.m. Chinese time on Wednesday in Lijiang City, southwest China's Yunnan Province, where it was visible for only a few seconds, the China Morning Post reported in a report Friday.

NASA's spacecraft, which maintains a database of fireballs, confirmed that the fireball was a falling meteorite that entered the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of about 9 miles per second, with a power output of about 0.54 kilotons. The energy produced by this meteorite was equivalent in its measurement of the energy that could be obtained when detonating about 540 tons of TNT.

Over the past few hours, a video has appeared that shows the fall of the meteor, and it seems like a fireball in the sky in all the Chinese media.

Although the energy produced by the fall of this meteorite is measured in higher than many meteorites in several regions of the world during the recent period, but this is not denied that there were a number of meteorites this fall that caused the creation of energy far more than Meteor on Wednesday.

In June, a fireball with a power output of about twice as much meteorite as China fell from the sky over the ocean between Australia and Antarctica. Also in the same month, a fireball caught fire off the coast in eastern Russia and the resulting energy was roughly equal to that of the meteorite that fell yesterday. NASA sensors have picked up about 20 firecrackers worldwide so far this year, including a meteorite

In the record of NASA's data on meteorites falling to Earth dating from 1988, the largest recorded fireball to our planet was in Russia in 2013. Nezek Chelyabinsk, which emerged brighter than the sun and created a strong vibration wave when it fell, And caused some citizens to hit the broken glass.

With a capacity of 2.9 kilotons over the center of the Atlantic in March. It was the largest meteorite across the sky in China in 2009, with a power output of about 2.3 klotons. NASA's meteorological data show that the meteorite in Russia carried 440 kilotons of energy, equivalent to about 440,000 tons of dynamite.

The China Morning Post said it was unclear whether the fireball this week caused injuries or damage.