Skywatchers and surveillance cameras in Arkansas spotted a huge meteor streaking across the sky Monday night.
A video shared by Twitter user @ToddAAnderson in Benton shows a huge green flash in a cloudy sky before the fireball appears to break up.
According to Arkansas Sky, the official Twitter account of the Arkansas SkyDome Planetarium, the green color “was likely caused by either the air glow of highly ionized atmospheric oxygen created as the meteor plowed through the atmosphere or by the burning of [copper] within the meteor itself.”
According to the American Meteor Society, no major meteor showers are currently active. The next meteor shower will be the Lyrids, active from April 15–29, and peaking April 22–23.
