Racing car discovered by the Prisma Network between the cities of Savigliano and Fosano and the Ligurian Sea
It comes from the location of the asteroid 153 Hilda, which will give its name to a family of specific asteroids, the fireball spotted this morning by the Prisma Network’s 7 cameras (the first Italian network for meteor and atmospheric exploration). Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) at 3:39 pm local Italian time.
At about 8 seconds, the brilliant meteor appeared in the Kunio region, between the cities of Savigliano and Fosano, at an altitude of about 80 km and a speed of 14 km per second. The meteorite moved southeast and sailed fifteen kilometers off the Finale Ligure coast in the Ligurian Sea.
Asteroid family Hilda does not belong to the main asteroid belt, but is very external, which is explained in a note. It is believed that the bodies that make it up did not come from a common ancestral object. At about 4 astronomical units from the Sun, Jupiter was formed by asteroids trapped at a ratio of 3: 2 (1 astronomical unit corresponds to the average distance between the Earth and the Sun and is 149,597,870.7 km). The comet of a comet known as the Quasi-Hilda group, which includes the Schumacher-Levy tail star that fell on Jupiter in 1994, crashed last night.
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February 27, 2022 (Change February 27, 2022 | 19:12)
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