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Bright green fireball flying over Irkutsk

Added	Fri, 24/03/2017
Источники	irkutskmedia.ru
Дата публикации	Thu, 23/03/2017
Версии	Meteor

Bright green fireball spotted in the sky over Irkutsk today, March 23, at approximately 14.39 local time. The unusual phenomenon lasted a few seconds. It is reported IA IrkutskMedia.

— I with a friend went on Irkutnogo bridge in the direction of Leninsky district. Through the windshield at the sky I saw a fast moving bright green object. The bolide left a trail. Reaching the ground, he disappeared, ceased to glow. The angle of his fall was approximately 45 degrees to the horizon. The fireball was flying from Southeast to Northwest, – told trend. the Agency's Executive Director, planetarium of Irkutsk Pavel Nikiforov.

Currently, the planetarium staff are looking for witnesses of unusual phenomena.

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