Despite the fact that human technology has advanced in terms of predicting astronomical events, the sky is an unexpected landscape that gives us surprising events. A meteor surprised the people of Indonesia when it fell on the most active volcano in the Asian country. The event was recorded on video and is going around the world.
Merapi volcano in Indonesia
The video that captures the exact moment the meteor falls on the volcano merapi from Indonesia, is causing excitement around the world. Just a few months ago merapi It surprised the inhabitants of the region with a large eruption that was heard 30 kilometers away. The volcano is considered the most active in the Asian country and also one of the most active in the world.
Merapi, the stage of the cosmic show
Nature is so unpredictable that it never ceases to amaze us. merapi it became in previous days the scene of a beautiful cosmic visual spectacle. The security cameras that captured the exact moment, threw a Video where you can see a green light that illuminates the sky of the archipelago. The glowing green ray falls from the heights and rushes over the mountain. Only seconds later the meteorite impacts very close to the top of the volcano.
Meteor yang terlihat (pada detik ke 21) dari CCTV Megadata, di Merapi yang berlokasi di Kalitengah Kidul. mau coba cek cctv gunung agung sapa tau dapat juga 👀 pic.twitter.com/twL5ECvP5F
— VolcanoYT (@VolcanoYTz) May 28, 2021
The video is impressive, however, the coincidence of the events with the presence of the photographer Gunarto Song is even more surprising. To the delight of lovers of astronomical events, the local photographer who has been photographing Mount Merapi for several months was near the area. with his lens managed to capture the glowing green ray produced by the fall of the meteor on the volcano on the island of Java, Indonesia.
The photographs show the exact moment of the fall of the meteor, which appears to crash right on top of Merapi. Gunarto Song shared the images on her Instagram account, where she indicates that she captured them from the nearby region of Kali Adem.
«It was super bright and fast. These are authentic photographs. I took a four-second exposure,» Gunarto explained to a local media outlet.
Indonesia is known for its high seismic and volcanic activity, because it is located on the Pacific Ring of Fire. The Merapi volcano is the most active of the 500 volcanoes in the archipelago and is located on the island of Java. It rises above ground level up to 2,968 meters high.
What is a meteorite?
On Earth, meteorites can be seen as dream lights, flashes that enchant our eyes as they cross the sky. And although many call them shooting stars, they are actually stellar dust and galactic matter that managed to pass through our atmosphere. But don’t worry, in most cases, they fail to cause harm to our planet or people.
To become considered as such, they first go through a process of evolution. In the first instance we have meteoroids, bodies of matter that revolve around our largest body, the sun, but that are too small to be considered within the range of planets, comets, or asteroids.
In most cases, upon contact with the Earth’s atmosphere, the meteoroid produces a flash in the sky (a meteor) and then vaporizes into the air without actually touching the Earth’s surface. However, there are cases in which the latter does not occur, that is, the body of galactic material does not disintegrate in the air and ends up landing on Earth. This body is called meteorite.
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