A meteoroid one meter in diameter lit up the sky around four in the morning on Monday, February 13.
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A lightning but impressive luminous impact. A meteor one meter in diameter was detected in the French sky around four o’clock in the morning near Rouen on the night of Sunday 12 to Monday 13 February. The European Space Agency (ESA) had announced the phenomenon more than four hours before on Twitter: “Meter-long meteoroid expected to safely hit Earth’s atmosphere above northern France».
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Baptized “Sar2667”, the shooting star was seen in the sky of Paris, Rouen as well as in the south of England, according to several videos of Internet users, who hastened to publish them on Twitter.
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This is the seventh time that an impact from a small asteroid has been predicted before it happens, “a sign of rapid progress in global asteroid detection capabilities!“, rejoiced the ESA.
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This first impact of 2023 comes “for the tenth anniversary of the Chelyabinsk meteor“, observed in the sky of western Russia on February 15, 2013, recalls the physicist of the ESA, Richard Moissl.
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