Over Texas there was a loss of space fragments

On Sunday, in the atmosphere of Texas, many residents of this American state observed a luminous fire ball, as well as fragments that fell from the sky, RIA Novosti reports. On Monday, it became known that the fragments are the remains of a meteoroid. Thus, representatives of the US Federal Directorate of Civil Aviation (FAA) believe. (Earlier, representatives of the FAA stated that the wreckage could be parts of two communication satellites encountered on February 10, which is included in the Iridium and Russian "Cosmos -2251".)

According to astronomers, the newly -naked meteoroid was a heavenly body the size of a small truck.

A meteoroid is a cosmic body, in its composition an intermediate between loose interplanetary dust and a solid asteroid. According to the classification of the British royal astronomical society, a meteoroid is called a cosmic body with a diameter of 100 micrometers to 10 meters. The visible trace of the meteoroid, which enters the atmosphere of the Earth, is called meteor.