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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Large meteorite spotted flying over Vostok station in Antarctica
2025-08-14
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] A large meteorite meteor has been recorded in Antarctica, which flew over the Russian Vostok station. This was reported on August 13 by the press service of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI).

"AARI polar explorers recorded a rare phenomenon - the flight of a bright bolide over the Vostok station in Central Antarctica. A bright luminous object appeared in the night sky today, August 13, at about 16:00 local time. The meteorite meteor moved quickly and left behind a bright white trail that could be seen in the sky for more than half an hour," the report says.

Sergei Drozdov, a research fellow at the Astronomical Center of the Lebedev Physical Institute, was surprised that in such a sparsely populated area as Antarctica, it was possible to capture a trace of a bright bolide on a photo. He also suggested that such a large meteorite meteor could even reach the surface of the planet, meaning that its fragments could be discovered in the future.
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In early June, residents of Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, noticed several luminous objects flying in the sky. According to the republic's Defense Ministry, they did not pose a threat to the population, since the military did not record any violations of the country's airspace. As noted by Crimean astronomer Alexander Yakushechkin, the luminous balls filmed in Astana were fragments of a spacecraft or rocket stages burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.

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