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Pre-Dawn Fireball Sweeps Across Central Argentina, Identified as Likely Bolide

Preliminary analysis points to a bright meteor that disintegrated in the atmosphere without reported damage.

Overview

  • The luminous trail was observed around 5:50 a.m. from Santa Fe, Córdoba and Buenos Aires, with additional reports from Santiago del Estero and other localities.
  • Cellphone videos shared widely on social media show a vivid, color-tinted glow crossing the sky and sparked extensive eyewitness accounts.
  • Astronomers Jorge Coghlan and Adrián Arqueola described the phenomenon as a bolide entering at a shallow angle and heating intensely as it passed through the atmosphere.
  • Coghlan said the object likely broke up completely into meteoric dust, and authorities reported no explosions, injuries or damage.
  • Researchers are compiling recordings to refine the trajectory, with no confirmed meteorite fragments, while a separate local interview raised a satellite reentry as a possibility under review.