Fireball seen over UK confirmed as meteor after day of confusion

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A fireball seen over many parts of the northern UK has been confirmed as a meteor after a day of confusion about its identity.and Scotland as it blazed across the clear night sky just after 10pm on Wednesday night.

John Maclean, an astronomer at the network, said: “We’ve analysed it from many more angles. It is definitely a meteor. Probably a small piece of an asteroid that’s broken off an asteroid. It came in at an asteroidal orbit.” He said the fireball was initially mistaken for a space junk because it was travelling more slowly than a typical meteor, and videos of the sighting suggested it broke up higher and earlier than a meteor.

 

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