Only a lucky few were able to witness this event. As reported by the European Space Agency (ESA), a small one meter wide meteor lit up the French sky on the night of Sunday February 12 to Monday February 13 passing above Paris and Rouen in particular. This luminous phenomenon, which results from the fall in the Earth's atmosphere of a solid body coming from space, occurred shortly after 4 am.
A 1-meter meteoroid (small
This small asteroid, detected by the agency, was therefore visible before its decomposition due to its entry into the Earth's atmosphere, as usually happens. Called "Sar2667", this shooting star continued its course to the south of England, indicated on Twitter some Internet users intrigued by its presence in the sky.
The European Space Agency pointed out that "this is only the seventh time that an impact has been predicted before it actually happens." "A sign of the rapid progress of global asteroid detection capabilities!" welcomed the ESA.
