The meteorite fell to Earth nearly a decade after the destructive Chelyabinsk meteor hit Russia in February 2013.
The object—a small meteorite estimated to be about three feet in length and dubbed Sar2667—struck the earth safely in Northern France at 9:59 pm ET on February 12, the International Meteor Organization reported.This was only the seventh time in history that astronomers detected a meteorite before it breached the Earth's atmosphere.
This early detection was a"sign of the rapid advancements in global asteroid detection capabilities," theThe meteorite fell to earth a decade after the Chelyabinsk meteor hit Russia on February 15, 2013. Unlike this most recent event, the Chelyabinsk meteor was large, at 59 feet long. It caused damage upon impact and injured nearly 1,500 people. Nobody was killed as a result.
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