And they got to Australia. A Russian missile exploded over Melbourne: what is known (video)

The locals suggested that it had fallen meteorite or comet, but it turned out that they were the fragments of a Russian launch rocket, writes The Guardian. In focus. Technology has appeared its Telegram channel. Subscribe not to miss the latest and most intrusive news from the world of science! Some residents of the Australian city of Melbourne witnessed the appearance of a bright ray of light in the night sky after midnight on Tuesday, August 8.

Some observers have suggested that it falls either a comet or a meteorite. But the bright ray was divided into parts after a short traffic in the sky and a loud explosion. Local scientists have stated that this object could not be a falling meteorite because the color of the burning material indicated that an artificial object appeared in the sky.

The usual meteorites during the fall through their chemical composition glow in the sky or green or blue, but as seen in the video, the bright strip of light was more orange. On the other hand, given the duration of this night phenomenon, it could definitely not be a meteorite that usually burned very quickly.

The Australian Space Agency was soon stated that the Australians were probably watched by the fall of the fragments of the Russian launch rocket, which, on Monday, August 7, launched from the Spacemor Plesetsk, launched a satellite into space. Scientists believe that one of the degrees of the Soyuz missile, after fulfilling their mission, entered the atmosphere at a huge speed.

According to the Australian Space Agency's statement, part of the Russian carrier was safe to fall into the Pacific Ocean near the southeastern coast of the Australian Tasmania island. According to Alan Daffy of Swinburne University, Australia, this phenomenon was very unusual because it was the most striking entry of space debris into the atmosphere of all he saw.

According to Alice Gorman from Flinders University, Australia, Socialized rocket "Soyuz" weighs 105 tons for a length of 25 meters, and when she launched a satellite into orbit, the separated degree returned back to the ground from a very high height and with a very high high height speed. Even when the rocket fragments flew into pieces, they continued to burn in the night sky.

Scientists believe that the fragments of the rocket moved very quickly, and therefore overcame the sound barrier, which is why the inhabitants of Melbourne and heard the explosion. According to Duffy, the last fragments of the rocket degree are most likely burned a few kilometers above the surface. By the way, 3 years ago, one of the degrees of the Russian launcher "Soyuz", which also launched a satellite from the Space Space Plesetsk, also exploded in the atmosphere.