Beautiful earthgrazer last night! Seen in 6 cameras of the NASA - TopicsExpress



          

Beautiful earthgrazer last night! Seen in 6 cameras of the NASA All Sky Fireball Network in the southeastern US. At 9:38:30 PM EDT, a basketball size meteoroid entered the atmosphere 63 miles above Columbia, South Carolina. Moving northwest at 78,000 miles per hour, it finally burned up 52 miles above the Tennessee country side, just north of Chattanooga. This fireball was not part of any meteor shower and belongs to a class of meteors called Earthgrazers, which skim along the upper part of the atmosphere before burning up. This one traveled a distance of 290 miles, which is quite rare for a meteor.
Posted on: Fri, 16 May 2014 17:39:51 +0000

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