The bright trail of light captured imaginations all across the United Kingdom.
At first, some observers thought the whizzing ball of light could have been a piece of space junk, perhaps from one of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. But after some speedy calculations, the U.K. Meteor Network determined that the fireball was caused by a small space rock entering Earth’s atmosphere.
Based on the meteor's angle of entry into Earth’s atmosphere, scientists at the Network suspect that the space rock plummeted at an angle that carried it over Wales, the Irish Sea and Belfast, Ireland. If the object didn’t completely disintegrate in the atmosphere, tiny meteorites may have rained down into the Atlantic Ocean near the Scottish island of Islay.
Video of the fireball, shared by the U.K. Meteor Network on Twitter , showed the meteor blazing in skies over Paisley, Scotland, at 10 p.m. local time.
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