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  • An ‘earthgrazer’ flew ‘a whopping 186 miles’ over 2 states — then vanished, NASA says

    11/12/2021 7:27:52 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 23 replies
    Macon Telegraph ^ | NOVEMBER 11, 2021 1:15 PM | Mark Price
    “Earthgrazers” are fireball meteors with a trajectory so shallow that they skim long distances across the upper atmosphere, NASA says. The fireball appeared Tuesday, Nov. 9, around 6:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, officials say, and was “detected by three NASA meteor cameras in the region.” It entered the atmosphere “at a very shallow angle — only 5 degrees from the horizontal.” In fact, it was flying for so long that NASA had to recalculate its data to determine how far it traveled across the planet. “The meteor was first seen at an altitude of 55 miles above the Georgia town...