A picture of green light in the night sky above mountains is going viral with the claim that it is an asteroid that missed hitting Earth this month. The viral post claims that the picture was taken in India.
multiple facebook users posted this image with Title It said, “This is the asteroid that missed Earth in the skies of India about a day ago”.
India Today Anti-Fake News War Room (AFWA) has found that it is true that three asteroids crossed the earth This year between November 29 and December 17, but the viral picture is of a meteorite captured six years ago. Photographer Prasenjit Yadav was taking photographs in the Western Ghats in 2015 when his camera accidentally captured a green streak of light in the night sky.
AFWA investigation
With the help of reverse image search, we found the viral image on National Geographic’s website. This photo was published in an article in 2017 where it was used as the cover image.
Title The picture reads, “A rare green meteor is seen over the sky islands of the Western Ghats mountains of India.” The name of the photographer mentioned in the article is Prasenjit Yadav.
The same picture was also published on the website of an American magazine.wired,
According to this article, Prasenjit Yadav Won a “National Geographic Young Explorers Grant” to document the “Sky Islands,” isolated mountain peaks rising above the clouds along a 400-mile stretch of the Western Ghats.
On 9 October 2015, Yadav set up his camera on the mountains of the Western Ghats to click the landscape and skies at night. He set the camera to take a 15-second exposure every 10 seconds until 4:30 in the morning.
The next day, after reviewing all the pictures clicked by his camera, he found this wonderful picture of a green streak of light in the night sky.
In 2019, Yadav posted this picture on instagram and wrote, “This is definitely one of the most memorable shots I’ve ever taken and also the first image NG published back in 2016!! Time spent documenting urbanization around the Southern Sky Islands in India While doing this the green meteor was captured.
asteroids and meteorites
According to NASA website An asteroid is a small rocky object that orbits the Sun. Asteroids are smaller than a planet, but they are larger than the pebble-sized objects we call meteorites.
But meteorites, meteorites and meteorites are all related to flashes of light called “shooting stars,” which are sometimes seen across the sky. We call the same object by different names, depending on where it is. When they are in space they are called meteorites. When they enter the Earth’s atmosphere, they are called meteors. When a meteorite survives a journey through the atmosphere and hits the ground, it is called a meteorite.
Scientists guess That about 48.5 tons (44,000 kg) of meteorite falls on Earth every day, but almost all of the material vaporizes in the planet’s atmosphere. taking pictures Meteor showers are quite difficult and often depends on luck.
in an email exchange with USA TodayPrasenjit Yadav confirmed that he had taken this picture in 2015.
Therefore, it can be concluded that the viral image is six years old and not from recent activity when the asteroid passed by Earth this month.
ClaimThis asteroid – captured on camera in the skies of India – missed hitting Earth in December. ConclusionIt is true that three asteroids passed by Earth between November 29 and December 17 this year, but the viral picture is of a meteorite captured six years ago. Photographer Prasenjit Yadav was taking photographs in the Western Ghats in 2015 when his camera accidentally caught a green streak of light in the night sky.
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