Meteorite falls in Cusco, Peru (caught on film)

[Gamera]

One of the most amazing things captured on film in Peru's history. A meteorite falling into a forest in Cusco at around 2 pm, which apparently would explain some of the forest fires that they've been having lately, but they have not found the place where it fell yet. According to reports, it disappeared from sight in the horizon.

Video:

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[Gamera]

It seems like the meteorite was only about some dozens of millimeters long. Quite stunning how such a small rock from space can cause such scenario. Imagine how a 1 meter long one would look.

[Damião de Góis]

Awesome video. But i was hoping to see it landing?

[Gamera]

Awesome video. But i was hoping to see it landing?

Apparently they didn't film the landing.

[Phil75231]

It seems like the meteorite was only about some dozens of millimeters long. Quite stunning how such a small rock from space can cause such scenario. Imagine how a 1 meter long one would look.

It only took a 50 meter rock to create the famous one in Arizona. Apparently it hit with the force of at least the most powerful US nuke ever detonated (15 megatons or so)

[Damião de Góis]

Apparently they didn't film the landing.

Yeah... total anti-climax

[Ouistreham]

Don't you see this is pure bullshit?
How come journalists and TV's are spreading such asinine claims about that so-called meteor?

I had once the chance, when I was a young boy, to see a meteorit passing across the sky at dusk one day the sky was especially clear. It took only five seconds, horizon to horizon. Meteors arrive in the high atmosphere at speeds from 20 to 50 km/second.

I cannot imagine an asteroid remaining in the same part of the sky for over one minute while emitting two perfectly regular and symmetrical condensation trails!

Are all Latin-American meteors that slow? and twin-engined?...

It was obviously an airliner.