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Chinese rocket mistaken for meteor shower
A bright flash in the sky surprised residents of the Costa Blanca on the night of August 10 to 11. Multiple lights streaked across the skies of the Valencian Community and Castilla-La Mancha, leaving onlookers amazed and filling social media with videos of the glowing trail. With many wondering whether the phenomenon was a meteor or the anticipated perseid meteor shower, users on ‘X’ quickly… Source
A large fire halo lit up the sky of several localities in southeastern Spain on Sunday night. It is the remains of a Chinese rocket model Jielong-3, launched on 8 August, and that in its re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere was disintegrated, as confirmed by the Research Network of Bolides and Meteorites (SPMN), dependent on the CSIC. “The re-entry and progressive fragmentation of spatial ingenuities is a phenomenon that can last minutes, charac…
The re-entry into the atmosphere of the fourth stage of the Jielong-3, launched by China on August 8,...
The re-entry into the atmosphere of the fourth stage of the Jielong-3, launched by China on August 8, has generated this Sunday a striking luminous phenomenon visible from different points in the province of Almería and other areas of the Spanish southeast. Read
Last night, a bright fireball was seen in the sky in some parts of the Valencian Community, such as Ibi (Alcoià), Torrevieja (Baix Segura) and Altea (Marina Baixa). This unusual phenomenon was captured by some people, who shared videos on social networks. It was not a comet or a shooting star, but the Chinese Jielong 3 rocket, which was launched on August 8 and its contact with the atmosphere caused it to disintegrate. In other words, it was spa…
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