Super Fireball Lights Up Night Sky in Northern China
Ma Qiang is an amateur astronomer living in Tianjin who witnessed the flying fireball.
He said the fireball glittered and flew from northwest to the west around 5:25 pm and disappeared after two seconds.
Its golden lights were brighter than the moon.
Some citizens in Beijing also saw the fireball and reported the incident.
Director of Beijing Planetarium Zhu Jin said the glittering object is a super bright fireball that is rarely seen, according to descriptions given by the witnesses.
Astronomers say a fireball is a kind of meteor that has seldom been observed.
Flying in the aerosphere, the fireball sometimes sounds like a pen scratching on paper. It is brighter than Venus at night.
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