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Today (23rd) around 1:30 am, shooting stars were clearly observed all over the country.

The reason the meteor was so bright and bright that a reaction that thought the moon was falling is because there was an explosion in the atmosphere. Where did the shooting star fall?



This is Seo Dong-gyun reporter.



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An object that glows with blue light crosses the dawn sky of Seoul.



[Down Kim/Seogyo-dong, Seoul: It's really big.

A very round thing like a meteorite falls like this, and a flash shines like this?

So it was very strange...

.] At the



same time, in Gwangju metropolitan city, an object flashing and falling with a long tail was seen.



At around 1:30 in the morning, this phenomenon was observed all over the country, and there were also eyewitness accounts that a banging sound was heard.



[This spirit / Gwangju chipyeongdong: Starting from scratch, but that came off feeling a sudden, what have blossomed in the air, the size, as otherwise the huge long doing just the tail all the time -



is an object that is often referred to as the meteor Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute meteor Said.



Meteors are a phenomenon in which cosmic dust, such as fragments of asteroids, is attracted by Earth's gravity and burned in the atmosphere by friction with air.



The Astronomical Research Institute analyzed that the meteor exploded twice in the atmosphere and suddenly appeared bright and large.



It was also determined that a meteor heading from north to south fell in the southern region of Daejeon.



[Kim Myung-jin / Senior Researcher, Korea Astronomical Research Institute: You need to know the trajectory of the fall, and if you go to a certain area, you can find it."

The analysis could not be done.] There



are even posts on social media saying that they will find a meteorite, but after a large shooting star was observed in March 2014, four meteorites were found in a green house in Jinju, Gyeongnam.



At the time, the government tried to buy these meteorites for 350 million won, but it is known that the discoverer did not sell them.



(Video editing: Park Jin-hoon)