Dit bericht kwam vandaag uit – gaat over een meteoride, die op 91 km hoogte de Aarde naderde boven Duitsland en Nederland op 22 september rond 4 uur in de ochtend. En dan was die “plotseling” afgestoten en veranderde van baan. Waardoor die dus niet opbrandde, maar weg vloog.
“A rock from space was recently observed skimming Earth’s atmosphere. The meteoroid was spotted in the early hours of 22 September above Northern Germany and the Netherlands, getting as low as 91 km in altitude – far below any orbiting satellites – before it ‘bounced’ back into space. A meteoroid is typically a fragment of a comet or asteroid that becomes a meteor – a bright light streaking through the sky – when it enters the atmosphere. Most of them disintegrate, possibly with pieces reaching the ground as meteorites. This lucky visitor, however, didn’t get low enough to completely burn up and managed to escape again, only grazing the edges of our planet’s protective gassy shield. Earthgrazers don’t happen very often, just a handful of times per year, in comparison to the thousands of meteors we observe in the same period, only the largest of which reach the ground as meteorites. The lucky object was spotted by cameras in the Global Meteor Network, a project which aims to cover the globe with meteor cameras and provide the public with real time alerts, building a picture of the meteoroid environment around Earth.”
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