Mexico: Fireball bazes over Leon's sky, March 5, 2014

Milenio
Thu, 06 Mar 2014 14:34 UTC

© Milenio

The fireball seen over León, Mexico.

A fireball was seen over León at 7:02 p.m. A journalist working at Milenio took a picture.

The rock was seen traveling towards the West. It appeared suddenly and then faded away in the horizon, around the Jalisco border. It was described as a fireball with a yellow trail.

It corresponds to Asteroid 2014 DX110, traveling at 15 kilometers per second. It is a rock of a larger size than the meteorite that caused damages in Chelyabinsk, Russia, in February 2013.

The asteroid travelled between the Moon and the Earth, and it was seen in Leon for three minutes. The celestial body didn't present any risk to humanity.

Translated and edited by SOTT.net

Comment: Asteroid 2014 DX110 was travelling between the Moon and the Earth on the same day. The original source in Spanish tells us that the fireball seen over León was asteroid DX110, an assumption that couldn't possibly be true. First of all, the asteroid didn't enter the atmosphere. Had it done so, the "fireball" would have been huge!

The more likely explanation is that this is simply another of the many fireballs seen in the recent times.

If it were to have anything to do with the asteroid, we could speculate that it was a space rock fragment on Earth, just as the many others. For example, last February asteroid 2012-DA14 was passing close to our planet when a fireball shook several towns in Santa Fe, Argentina and almost exaclty one year earlier, a huge fireball over Chelyabinsk caused widespread damage.