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Credit & Copyright: Jon Burnett
Explanation:
Jon Burnett, a teenager from
South Wales,
UK, was photographing some friends
skateboarding last week when the sky did something very strange.
High in the distance, a sofa-sized rock came
hurtling
into the nearby atmosphere of planet Earth and disintegrated.
By diverting his camera, he was able to
document this rare sky
event and capture one of the more spectacular
meteor images yet recorded.
Roughly one minute later, he took
another picture of the dispersing meteor trial.
Bright fireballs
occur over someplace on Earth nearly every day.
A separate bolide,
likely even more dramatic,
struck India only a few days ago.
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