A fireball seen near Salihorsk, Belarus. September 22, 2025.
© Minsk Planetarium and ObservatoryA fireball seen near Salihorsk, Belarus. September 22, 2025.
A rare iron meteoroid colored the sky blue. It did not reach the earth: it burned up in the atmosphere.

At 2 a.m. on September 22, a fireball was observed over the Polesie region. The Minsk Planetarium and Observatory shared images of the phenomenon and explained that it was a super-bolide (very bright meteor).

The fireball flew almost directly over Salihorsk, moving in a northern direction. It did not fall to Earth but burned up completely in the atmosphere. The flash was bright, almost like a full Moon, and colored the sky blue.

It was recorded by three cameras of the Belarusian Meteor Network. This allowed for the calculation of its precise trajectory and type. Spectral analysis showed it was a rare iron meteoroid. The fireball entered the atmosphere at a speed of 29.5 km/s, ignited at an altitude of 94 km, and abruptly extinguished at an altitude of 57 km.


Last year, on Christmas, a meteorite fell near Smaliavichy: on the evening of December 25, 2024, a stony meteoroid exploded at an altitude of 35 km and broke into pieces that reached the ground.

The largest meteorite recorded in modern history on the territory of Belarus fell near Brahin. The exact time of the fall is not known (it might have been mentioned in the Ipatiev Chronicle), but the first fragment was found in 1807. While the Smaliavichy meteorite weighed about 582 g, the Brahin one weighed 823 kg. Fragments of another meteorite, with a total estimated weight of 303 kg, were found in 1954 near Hresk in the Slutsk district.

A meteorite a billion times larger fell near Lahojsk about 42 million years ago—it left behind the Lahoysk Crater.