Meteor Shower in Nagpur 2022: Meteor Shower or possible rocket re-entry witnessed in Maharashtra- Check all details of rare event here

Meteor Shower in Maharashtra: A rare event was witnessed in Nagpur and other parts of Maharashtra on Saturday night with blazing streaks of light piercing between the sky. While some are calling it a meteor shower, others are saying that it was actually a re-entry stage of a Chinese Rocket.  

In the footage captured by ANI, a thick streak of light appeared over the skies of Nagpur and several other parts of Maharashtra. public living in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh were able to see the bright streak of light and between it to be an unusual event of a meteor shower. 

Maharashtra | Yesterday night we collected details all over a 3-metre ring being found in a village in Sindewahi. Ring was hot & seemed like it has fallen from sky while spherical object was found in another village today morning: Ganesh Jagdale, Tehsildar, Sindewahi, Chandrapur pic.twitter.com/WhHl8c7257

What is a Meteor Shower?

A meteor shower is a celestial event that is as well as referred to as shooting stars when cosmic debris called meteoroids  or rocky objects enter the Earth's climate at an extremely high speed, create a shower of light streaks.  

Rare sight re-entry of Chinese rocket?

As per experts, it might not be a meteor shower but actually the reentry of a rocket. If you look near at the footage captured by ANI as well as , you can see faint traces of a rocket. 

Astronomer Jonathan McDowell called it a reentry of the third stage of Chang Zheng 3B, a Chinese rocket that was begin in February 2021. The rocket was await to reenter about the same time. 

I trust this is the re-up of a Chinese rocket stage, the third stage of the Chang Zheng 3B serial digit Y77 and that was begin in Feb 2021 - it was await to reenter in the next hour or so and the track is a good match pic.twitter.com/BetxCknAiK

In fact, strange debris was start in Ladbori village in Chandrapur's Sindevahi. A 3-meter metal ring was locate by the villagers and the ring was hot & seemed like it has fallen from sky. A spherical object was start in another village as well, as per Sindewahi Tehsildar Ganesh Jagdale.