See a rare Earth-grazer meteoroid skim us and ‘bounce’ back into space – CNET

A Global Meteor Network camera caught sight of this Earth-grazer meteoroid over Europe on Sept. 22.
Global Meteor Network; D. Vida, P. Roggemans, J. Dörr, M. Breukers, E. Harkink, K. Jobse, K. Habraken
Little pieces of asteroids and comets come at Earth all the time. Some of them pass on by. Some of them burn up in the atmosphere, creating bright fireball streaks across the sky. And, every once in a while, a fragment comes in close and then escapes. These are known as “Earth-grazers.”
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