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'SHOOTING STAR' ASTEROID SEEN OVER ENGLISH CHANNEL

Sar2667, was spotted just before 3am on Monday. It was one of only a handful of
times an asteroid was detected before entering the Earth's atmosphere using the
European Space Agency's imminent impactor alert system.

Niamh Lynch

Sky News reporter @niamhielynch

Monday 13 February 2023 17:50, UK



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Why you can trust Sky News

A small asteroid that entered the Earth's atmosphere was spotted above the
English Channel last night. 

Twitter users in the south of England could see the one-metre asteroid, named
Sar2667, just before 3am on Monday.

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Videos show the small asteroid - also referred to as a meteoroid, given its size
- lighting up the night sky and appearing to explode as it moves, creating a
shooting star effect.


Image: The asteroid was spotted just before 3am last night. Pic:
Twitter/@KadeFlowers/via Reuters

It was also one of only a handful of times an asteroid was detected before
entering the Earth's atmosphere using the European Space Agency's (ESA) imminent
impactor alert system.

The system, known as Meerkat, detected that the asteroid would safely strike the
earth's atmosphere near Rouen, northern France, between 2.50am and 3.03am UK
time.



It is the seventh time the system has detected an asteroid before it entered the
atmosphere.

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In a tweet, the ESA said its detection was "a sign of the rapid advancements in
global asteroid detection capabilities".

The sighting comes after a different asteroid made one of the closest approaches
to Earth ever recorded.

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An asteroid the size of a small truck was just 2,200 miles above the southern
tip of South America last month.


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