Fireballs show up in the night sky all over Earth on a regular basis. Depending on the size of the object creating them, they can range from a brief streak of light to huge explosions that send shockwaves for miles in all directions. Smaller ones are more common, of course, but the massive fireball that appeared over Australia in 2016 may have been even more special that astronomers first realized.
As ScienceAlert reports, observations of the fireball in 2016 revealed it to be on the larger side, producing a brilliant streak in the sky as the intense friction of entry into Earth’s atmosphere tore it apart. It’s now thought that the object may have been a rare example of a “minimoon.”
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A ‘Minimoon’ may have just exploded over Australia originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 2 Dec 2019 at 13:51:37 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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