Residents of Mexico City and other regions of center of Mexico were woken up early Wednesday on Wednesday by a strong explosion and a brilliant flash through the sky.
The event was then confirmed by the surveillance of the services as a racing car – An exceptionally shiny meteor This explodes in the earth’s atmosphere.
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The phenomenon occurred around 3:49 am, the local time today, arousing a generalized buzz on social networks, but no immediate report of damage, injuries, debris or impact sites.
The independent seismic surveillance service Alerta Sismo Mexana Detected the acoustic wave of the explosion via seismographers, affirming on social networks, it comes from a racing car that has exploded about 12 to 25 miles above the surface of the earth.
“Based on reports and our cameras, we confirm that the explosion in Mexico City was a racing car (perhaps a meteorite or a meteor) which exploded at 20 to 40 km above the ground, creating an acoustic wave”, ” The group said on X.
On Wednesday at noon, the Mexico Civil Protection Agency and government agencies had not yet published official statements.
Although the inhabitants of Mexico National seismological service did not record an earthquake activity.
The sound, delayed by its journey time from the high altitude explosion, was heard in the city and other regions of the CDMX metropolitan region, notably Ecatepec and Cuautitlán Izcalli.
The video sequences show the brilliant object that crosses the sky before the explosion, some witnesses seeing the phenomenon at Querétaro and Pachuca, about 185 and 88 kilometers of CDMX, respectively.
Reports on social networks describe the event as a powerful explosion that has caused vibrations, shaken windows and triggered car alarms.
Videos of security cameras and Mexico webcams captured the sequence of the fire ball, described by at least a witness as a “giant shooting star”.
Daniel Flores, researcher at the Institute of National Astronomy of the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), told the media that the cars are spatial rocks that vaporize due to atmospheric friction, unlike meteorites, which reach the surface of the earth. “These objects warm up intensely, creating light and sound, but most of them disintegrate without danger,” he said.
Experts have stressed that such events are common worldwide, with around 17,000 cars entering the earth’s atmosphere each year, although few people are noticed.
The incident is reminiscent of a Meteorite strike “supposed” in Tamaulipas in 2020 and a Meteor explosion in Russia equivalent to 500 kilotons of TNT This caused widespread damage and injuries in 2013 – focusing on the need to monitor almost land (NEOS) objects and develop early alert systems.
Mexico happens to be the house of Seventh largest meteor ever discovered on earth, THE Bacubirito Meteorite, which weighs 20 to 22 tonnes; It is also the third largest in the Americas and, 4.25 meters, the longest meteor ever found. Discovered in 1863 by a farmer near the city of Bacubirito, Sinaloa, he was housed Sinaloa Science Center.
Mexico fascination for meteors can also be experienced The Museo del Meteorito, or the meteorite museum, Who opened in 2022 in Progreso, Yucatán.
With reports from Infobae,, Milenio,, N + And Noticia Activas
