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Retrospective analysis of this 2016 fireball seen over Australia suggests it may have been a "minimoon" (a small asteroid or other space rock captured into an earth orbit before finally entering our atmosphere)
FULL STORY: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-fire...t-could-have-been-a-rare-and-elusive-minimoonFireball Spotted Over Australian Desert May Have Been Super-Rare 'Minimoon'
Fireballs explode in Earth's atmosphere all the time, usually unremarkably. And a fireball that exploded over the Australian desert in 2016 might have been mistaken for any other bolide, if not for a network of cameras monitoring the sky to search for just such events.
It was thanks to images taken by these cameras - called the Desert Fireball Network - that astronomers were able to ascertain the fireball was no ordinary exploding space rock.
Instead, velocity data revealed the rock had probably been in orbit around Earth before meeting its fiery end; a phenomenon known as a temporarily captured orbiter, or, colloquially, a minimoon. ...