KARACHI: A mysterious fireball with a long tail was seen passing through the night sky over Karachi and other parts of Sindh province on Saturday night.
Multiple eye-witnesses spotted the fireball, a particularly bright meteor, streaking across the sky shortly after 7 pm. The meteor was visible from many areas of the province including Karachi.
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Astronomical groups have confirmed the event as the rock could be seen in the video burning up in the Earth’s atmosphere, before crashing to the ground.
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Jawad Memon
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According to Weather Analyst, Jawad Memon, such meteors do not pose any threat to the population.
A meteor is a space rock—or meteoroid—that enters Earth’s atmosphere.
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Several thousand meteors of fireball magnitude occur in the Earth’s atmosphere each day. The vast majority of these, however, occur over the oceans and uninhabited regions, and a good many are masked by daylight.
Those that occur at night also stand little chance of being detected due to the relatively low numbers of persons out to notice them.
