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Flaming Space Debris Re-entering Atmosphere Lights Up California Sky


Flaming Space Debris Re-entering Atmosphere Lights Up California Sky A mesmerizing display of lights streaking in the night sky over Northern California on Friday was caused by the re-entry of flaming space debris into Earth’s atmosphere, experts said. Specifically, flaming chunks of communications equipment, which were jettisoned from the International Space Station in February 2020, streaked across the sky at 17,000 miles per hour, said Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Smithsonian and Harvard Center for Astrophysics.   More



(Source: The New York Time - Mar 20)

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