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Astronomers spot a small space rock hours before it releases meteorites

The small space rock was spotted just hours before it entered Earth’s atmosphere and landed in Canada’s Lake Ontario on Saturday (November 19).

miniasteroidless than 3 feet (1 meter) wide, was spotted by astronomer David Rankin at Mount Lemon Observatory in Arizona, according to SpaceWeather.com (opens in a new tab). Subsequent observations of other astronomers confirmed that the rock, coming from the direction of The main asteroid belt between orbits a Mars and Jupiterwas on a collision course with Earth.



https://www.space.com/meteorite-spotted-hours-before-hitting-Canada/ Astronomers spot a small space rock hours before it releases meteorites

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