fireball over Peru

[Budgieye]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8724019/Meteorite-soars-over-Peru.html

[Kieron]

Impressive. Thanks for the link.

Regards, Kieron

[Barwellian]

It has two trails and no bright head? Seen this many times and it is most probably a high altitude jet lit up by the sunset.

Graham

[Budgieye]

I think you are correct.
Too slow, too even and not disintegrating.

[David Entwistle]

It has two trails and no bright head? Seen this many times and it is most probably a high altitude jet lit up by the sunset.

Graham

Yes, I agree, but most news services reported the sighting as occurring at 14:00 in the afternoon, which would be too early in the day for the setting Sun to illuminate an aircraft trail in that way. However is see Canal N have now issued a correction to the information they provided and the time and date given were quite wrong. Roughly translated by Google, it is as follows.

Thus, it was confirmed that the facts were not so, but actually the video was taken by the director of Empire TV channel from Cusco, Juan Manuel Chara, and also said that actually was filmed last August 16 by averaging the 04:40 pm.

I think that settles it - an aircraft trail. It seems the video was used in a way never intended by the person who took it. It does make you wonder how the press get from an aircraft trail illuminated by the setting Sun to...

Blazing with the fury of a mini-sun this amazing video shows the moment a suspected meteor streaked across the sky over the city of Cusco in Peru.

It was captured blasting through the upper levels of the atmosphere at 2pm yesterday afternoon, leaving an irredescent trail in its wake.

Astonished residents watched as the impressive natural phenomena eventually disappeared over the horizon.

Experts believe it may have caused forest fires to the south of the city, which have been ravaged by drought.

Local officials and the National Police are currently trying to determine where the meteorite may have landed and are speaking to farmers south of the city.

The meteorite fell in the south of the Imperial City, between the districts of San Sebastian and San Geronimo.