On October 4, 2017 around 8:07 p.m. local time, an extremely bright meteoroid fell over the northern Yunnan province of China, reaching maximum brightness roughly above the ground. The 8-second superbolide was widely recorded, as it fell in the late evening on the Mid-Autumn Festival, a fairly popular festival in China.
Overview Based on its incoming velocity of and energy, the original asteroid was likely between across, slightly smaller than the 2015 Thailand bolide, which fell about two years previously, several hundred miles to the south.
This is the largest-recorded meteor to fall over China since the 2000 bolide, which radiated about of energy compared to the 2017 event's . While it was only the fifth-most-energetic impact event of 2017, it was the largest one to occur over land, and a populated area no less.
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