{"id":8406,"date":"2021-01-31T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T10:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/?p=8406"},"modified":"2021-07-20T20:18:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T12:18:56","slug":"exploded-fireball-thrills-brunei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/2021\/01\/exploded-fireball-thrills-brunei\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploded Fireball thrills Brunei"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Hazarry bin Haji Ali Ahmad, The Astronomical Society of Brunei Darussalam<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bandar Seri Begawan &#8211; A huge fireball <\/strong>boomed over the Brunei skies and was bright enough to be seen in the daylight today, January 31, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Astronomical Society of Brunei Darussalam (PABD) had received numerous reports by the public who had heard a mysterious loud bang in the sky and put up a notice seeking for first-hand eyewitness accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210131_fireballtrails.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210131_fireballtrails-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210131_fireballtrails-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210131_fireballtrails-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210131_fireballtrails-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210131_fireballtrails-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/20210131_fireballtrails-2048x1535.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Photo: Haziq from Sengkurong eyewitnessed the blazing meteor and photographed the smoky trail with a \u201cring smoke\u201d (circled in green)<em> <\/em>which only last for few seconds before finally disappeared.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dozens of people sighting the spectacular phenomenon of a roaring sound from a disintegrated meteor based on eyewitness testimonies. The large boom that was heard and felt from across all districts in Brunei.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Haziq, 22 years old, reported to PABD of first seeing an unexpected bright blueish-green light falling from the sky over Mulaut, and tried to take the photo of the moment. 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font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CKspzfKBOcd\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by BruneiAstronomy (@bruneiastronomy)<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/blockquote><script async src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>Dozens encountered the strange explosion in Brunei <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The frightful sound or sonic boom apparently accompanied this planetary rock from space. Another eyewitness, Zaty, 35, also encountered a similar shocking moment from Jerudong. She said, \u201cI saw a bright ball of fire coming from the sky and there was a loud explosion a minute later.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some eyewitnesses had reported of seeing the similar meteor streaked through the sky over Lumut. An anonymous observer, 33, said \u201cI believe I saw a meteor occurred this morning on our approach to land at Anduki Heliport in Seria around 11 a.m. local time, but I didn&#8217;t hear if there is any explosion due to noise from helicopter\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Caught on camera: Daytime Meteor Streaking across Brunei\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FM-YE6ynNJU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>An off road adventurer, Abd Wafiy bin Hj Rudzi, 22, was amazed by the sighting, with the footage captured on a car-dash cam, a blazing meteor was bright enough to be seen in the daylight from Kampong Kulapis, Brunei<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hakem from Tutong said \u201cWe were at Penanjong beach and my daughter saw a light orange ball in the sky with a tail of light for a couple of seconds before it disappeared \u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An e-mail from Lau Shien Chung to PABD reported that the fireball was also spotted from Temburong. She mentioned, \u201cOne of my colleagues, Ginda, saw a fire trail in the sky at Temburong National Park. He saw the blazing fire at first and the sound of explosion came after.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meteors are an irregular and not normal events. Most of the time, meteors are the result of the complete burnt up of a small meteoroid in the atmosphere. Few meteoroids did survive to Earth which are called meteorites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20200131_jkr_report.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"742\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20200131_jkr_report-742x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20200131_jkr_report-742x1024.jpg 742w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20200131_jkr_report-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20200131_jkr_report-768x1061.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/20200131_jkr_report.jpg 1079w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>National Seismic Centre of Brunei Darussalam had detected seismic activity which was not caused by an earthquake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hazarry bin Haji Ali Ahmad, The Astronomical Society of Brunei Darussalam Bandar Seri Begawan &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,3,50],"tags":[30,335,5],"class_list":["post-8406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive","category-news","category-press-release","tag-brunei","tag-fireball","tag-meteor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bruneiastronomy.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}