Watch as spectacular asteroid hurtles through night sky over southern England
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This is the spectacular moment an asteroid hurtled through the night sky over southern England early Monday morning.Footage shows the meteoroid designated Sar2667 flashing brightly as it streaked through the heavens over Brighton in East Sussex at around 3 am local time on February 13.The European Space Agency (ESA) said the one-metre long meteoroid or space rock will safely impact the Earth's atmosphere over northern France between 3:50-4:03 CET.The agency said: 'This is just the seventh time an asteroid impact has ever been predicted before it happens - a sign of the rapid advancements in global asteroid detection capabilities.'The celestial body was reported to have exploded in a spectacular 'airburst' while burning up.
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