PLANET X INCOMING: Bright fireball explodes over Jinghong City, China
PLANET X INCOMING: Bright fireball explodes over Jinghong City, China
A very bright fireball exploded over the Chinese city of Jinghong in
Yunnan Province at 13:40 UTC on June 1, 2018. Locals reported sonic
booms associated with the event. According to witness reports, the
event lasted for about 2 seconds and was followed by two sonic booms.
This indicates the object penetrated deep into the atmosphere and that
some of its pieces might have survived the entry. The director of the Xishuangbanna State Seismological Bureau, Ma Zhengyin,
said the object entered at an angle of 70 degrees, common for meteors.
However, both Zhengyin and Wang Xiaobin, a researcher at the Yunnan
Observatory of Chinese Academy of Sciences, said they can’t be sure it
was a meteor because the video was short and there was no obvious path.
According to local media reports, people living in Dai Autonomous
Prefecture of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province are looking for possible
meteorites on the ground. READ MORE
