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WATCH: Rare ‘Earthgrazer’ meteorite bounces off Earth’s atmosphere back into space – RT
An open-source global network of stargazers has shared remarkable footage showing a rare ‘Earthgrazer’ meteorite skimming off our planet’s atmosphere, and avoiding certain doom, earlier this week.
The ‘Earthgrazer’ blazed across the skies over northern Germany & the Netherlands on September 22 at an altitude of just 91km, well below our orbiting weather and TV satellites.
Unlike most other meteorites which burn up in the atmosphere, creating ‘shooting stars’ in the process, this particular lucky lump of space rock, likely a fragment of a comet or meteor, ‘bounced back’ into space.
The mercurial meteorite’s lucky escape from a fiery doom was spotted by cameras in the Global Meteor Ne…
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