According to various Social Media reports, a Meteor was seen streaking through the night sky across North and Central Trinidad sometime between 9pm and 10pm on Tuesday 15th October 2019.
Meteors are glowing fragments of rock matter from outside the Earth's atmosphere that burn and glow upon entering the Earth's atmosphere. They are more commonly known as ‘Shooting Stars.’ Some Meteors, particularly larger ones, may survive passage through the atmosphere to become Meteorites, but most are small objects that burn up completely in the atmosphere.
On 15th February 2013 a Meteor exploded in the sky over Chelyabinsk, Southern Russia. Although no people or buildings were hit by the resulting Meteorite, the shockwave from the exploding object injured about 1,500 people and caused damage to 7,200 buildings in the region.
Throughout history there have been reports of stones falling from the sky, but the scientific community did not recognize the extraterrestrial origin of Meteorites until the 1700s. Within recent history, Meteorites have even hit humans:
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