FIREBALL LIGHTS UP SKIES OVER JAPAN

The fireball which lit up Japanese night skies was probably a fragment of an meteorite that burnt up on contact with the Earth's atmosphere

Weather cameras and mobile phones captured the moment when a fireball lit up the night skies across Japan.

Witnesses report seeing a soundless bright light falling, like a shooting star, illuminating the sky for a few seconds with a greenish glow.

FIREBALL LIGHTS UP SKIES OVER JAPAN

The fireball which lit up Japanese night skies was probably a fragment of an meteorite that burnt up on contact with the Earth's atmosphere

Weather cameras and mobile phones captured the moment when a fireball lit up the night skies across Japan.

Witnesses report seeing a soundless bright light falling, like a shooting star, illuminating the sky for a few seconds with a greenish glow.

Massive sinkhole opens up in the middle of a Brazilian farming town

Watch your step! An enormous sinkhole has opened up in the tiny municipality of Coromandel, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As Forbes reports, the 65-foot hole appeared overnight in the thick of a local soybean farm swallowing up earth, crops, and putting some 28,000 residents on alert. While some in the area had suspected a meteor was to blame for the cavernous hollow, geologists from the Federal University of Uberlândia have confirmed the sinkhole was in fact caused by the disintegration of the town’s underlying limestone bedrock.

read more: - https://inhabitat.com/massive-sinkhole-opens-up-in-the-middle-of-a-brazilian-farming-town/

Massive sinkhole opens up in the middle of a Brazilian farming town

Watch your step! An enormous sinkhole has opened up in the tiny municipality of Coromandel, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. As Forbes reports, the 65-foot hole appeared overnight in the thick of a local soybean farm swallowing up earth, crops, and putting some 28,000 residents on alert. While some in the area had suspected a meteor was to blame for the cavernous hollow, geologists from the Federal University of Uberlândia have confirmed the sinkhole was in fact caused by the disintegration of the town’s underlying limestone bedrock.

read more: - https://inhabitat.com/massive-sinkhole-opens-up-in-the-middle-of-a-brazilian-farming-town/