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‘Earthgrazer’ meteor filmed skimming Earth’s atmosphere and bouncing into space – Yahoo News Australia
Cameras have captured the rare sight of an ‘Earthgrazer’ meteoroid that skims Earth’s atmosphere before “bouncing” back into space.
Cameras have captured the rare sight of an Earthgrazer meteoroid skimming our planets atmosphere before bouncing back into space.
This particular meteoroid got hair-raisingly close, flying as low as 56 miles up in the sky, far below any orbiting satellites, before bouncing back out again.
The space rock whizzed through the night sky above Northern Germany and the Netherlands in the early hours of 22 September.
A meteoroid is typically a fragment of a comet or asteroid that becomes a meteor a …
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