Great ball of fire spotted in the sky over Bangkok

A large, bright fireball was seen streaking across the northern sky of Bangkok, Thailand, at about 8.40am on Monday.



Reports came from many different localities. An astronomer said that the fireball might be a meteor streaking down through the atmosphere.




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An official at the Bangkok Planetarium, however, said there had been no reports of a meteorite landing. Most meteors completely burn up in the atmosphere. If one did crash to earth, it would probably be noticed, he said.


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Saran Poshyachina, the deputy director of the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, said the fireball could be a meteorite landing. But he also did not rule out the possibility it could be space junk.