Meteor falls near Detroit
Last Wednesday, a meteor crashed in the city of Detroit. The impact lit up the city and caused a small earthquake with an intensity of 2 degrees on the Richter Scale, registered at 20:09 local hour. There are no reports of danger.
The crash of the meteor happened in Erie and Huron in the frontier with Canada. Many people started publishing videos of the incident in social media after the crash.
Officials of NASA confirm to “The Detroit News” that their cameras captured the entry of the meteor into the atmosphere at 20:09 hrs. In the picture a luminous white ball can be seen, and it shows the exact moment of the impact.
Richard Bell, an astronomer in Kalamazoo, epicenter of the earthquake, explains that this is an uncommon season for meteor fall.
