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A fireball with unexpected features as seen by the Global Fireball Observatory camera at Miquelon Lake Provincial Park, Alberta.

Scientists trace a fireball on a strange rocky meteoroid from the outskirts of the solar system

A rocky meteoroid that exploded over Canada last year was more extraordinary than it first appeared: it came from the outer solar system, where scientists thought only icy bodies existed. A cavalcade of professional and amateur astronomers took pictures and videos of the meteorites as it exploded over Alberta. Studying this data, the researchers determined …

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A fireball that exploded over Canada has been traced to a very unexpected origin

A fireball that exploded over Canada has been traced to a very unexpected origin

The Earth is constantly bombarded from space. Dust, pebbles and chunks of rock fall into our atmosphere daily, sometimes burning up spectacularly in a fiery trail across the sky. These bolides, or fireballs, are usually larger chunks of asteroids or comets that broke away from their parent bodies and eventually fell into Earth’s gravity well. …

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