Media Platforms Design TeamA meteor lit up the morning commute in Thailand’s capitol city of Bangkok Monday morning, streaking across the sky at around 8:40 am local time. View full post on YoutubeThanks to ubiquitous dashcams, social media quickly lit up with video of the meteor (technically known as a “bolide”) entering the atmosphere. View full post on TwitterIn February 2013, the much larger Chelyabinsk meteor streaked across the sky before exploding in the atmosphere, causing significant damage and injuring nearly 1,500. That “superbolide” was estimated to weight about 13 million kilograms before entering the Earth’s atmosphere.According to Saran Poshyachinda, Deputy Director of National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand, speaking to CNN, this rock was likely “a few kilograms.” Which means, luckily, the Bangkok bolide was more like a morning light show than something more serious. Source: Wired.co.ukJake SwearingenDeputy EditorJake Swearingen is deputy editor at PopularMechanics.com. Previously he worked at The Altantic and was digital director at Modern Farmer. He lives in Queens and really wants to talk to you about what’s going wrong in his dwarf fortress.
