Polar explorers have recorded a large meteorite in the sky above the Vostok station

Polar explorers of the Arctic and Antarctic Scientific Research Institute (AARI) have recorded the passage of a large meteorite over the Vostok station in Central Antarctica. This was announced on August 13 by the press service of the institute.

"A bright glowing object appeared in the night sky today, August 13 at about 16:00 local time (00:00 Moscow time). The meteorite moved quickly and left behind a bright white trail that could be observed in the sky for more than half an hour," reads a message posted on the institute's official group on the VKontakte social network.

Sergey Drozdov, a researcher at the Astronomical Center of the Lebedev Institute of Physics, said that many meteorites fall to Earth every day, but most often this happens in sparsely populated areas with above-water areas, vast forests, deserts, tundras or mountains. According to him, the passage of a meteorite in such a sparsely populated place, which was recorded, is amazing.

"Most likely, individual fragments have reached the surface, and they can be found later," concluded Drozdov.

The United Press International Agency (UPI) reported on June 27 that a piece of a meteorite broke through the roof of an apartment building in the US state of Georgia. It was clarified that the meteor was also observed in the American states of Tennessee and South Carolina.

Later, on August 9, the CBS television channel, citing experts from the University of Georgia, reported that a meteorite that broke through the roof of a house in Georgia was older than planet Earth. The publication noted that this meteorite was formed about 4.56 billion years ago, which is 20 million years older than Earth.

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