EarthCam捕捉到照亮圣路易斯天空的明亮流星

EarthCam捕捉到照亮圣路易斯天空的明亮流星

An apparent meteor lit up the sky over St. Louis on Monday night — a dazzling display that was captured on the city’s EarthCam footage.

周一晚上，一顆流星照亮了圣路易斯的天空，城市的地球攝像機(jī)記錄下了這一令人眼花繚亂的景象。

Twitter user David Vergel happened to be watching the live recording at about 8:51 p.m. local time when he witnessed the flaming ball fall from above the city’s skyline.

當(dāng)?shù)貢r(shí)間下午8點(diǎn)51分左右，推特用戶大衛(wèi)·韋吉爾(David Vergel)碰巧在觀星，他親眼目睹了火球從這座城市的天際線上墜落。

“I was watching an @EarthCam camera from St. Louis, Missouri about 30 minutes ago and saw a #meteor!” Vergel tweeted, along with a recording of the EarthCam footage.

“大約30分鐘前，我在密蘇里州圣路易斯用一架@EarthCam攝像機(jī)拍攝到一顆流星!”維格爾在推特上寫道，并附上了一段地球攝像機(jī)拍攝的視頻。

Other Twitter users were quick to comment that they, too, witnessed the meteor.

其他推特用戶很快評(píng)論說(shuō)，他們也看到了這顆流星。

“Huge flash came through our window,” one user wrote. “I actually went outside to make sure everything was ok.”

一位用戶寫道:“巨大的閃光從我們的窗口閃了進(jìn)來(lái)。我真的去外面看了一下，確保一切正常。”

Another area man said he thought was a firework — then he heard a “low deep double boom” minutes later.

另一名當(dāng)?shù)啬凶诱f(shuō)，他以為是煙花——幾分鐘后，他聽到了“低沉的雙重爆炸聲”。