A huge meteor crossed the skies of Minas Gerais, illuminated the May 20, 2020 dawn and was detected by two BRAMON cameras and by seven other cameras of climaaovivo.com.br. Check out the video below:

The alert was given in the morning through social networks and Cristóvão Jacques, who find out the meteor flash in SONEAR’s allsky camera in Oliveira, MG. Shortly after, Welter Mesquita, a member of BRAMON in Oliveira, reported that his station WMV1/MG had detected the very bright meteor at 06:36 UT.

Meteor flash in SONEAR allsky camera – Credits: SONEAR

In addition to the Welter station, the meteor was also detected by the IDS1/MG station managed by Ivan Soares in Patos de Minas, and by 7 other climaaovivo.com.br cameras in Piumhi – MG, Lagoa da Prata – MG, Oliveira – MG, Carmo da Mata – MG, Morro Agudo – SP, Araçoiaba da Serra – SP and Rio Bonito – RJ.

Preliminary analyzes carried out from the triangulation of the images indicate a trajectory that started 111 Km height over the municipality of Varginha, going in the north direction at a speed of about 28.74 Km/s (103,500 Km/h ) until it fragmented at 22.3 km height north of the municipality of Formiga, in Minas Gerais.

Preliminary da trajectory map – Credits: BRAMON

The meteor was classified as sporadic (not associated with any known meteor shower), presenting a very inclined orbit (51.2 degrees related to the ecliptic plane) with 0.8 AU perihelion and a semimajor axis of 1.37 AU.

Preliminary meteoroid orbit – Credits: BRAMON