Significant footage has been shared in the open source global network of stargazers showing that this rare ‘Earthgrazer’ meteorite is stripping our planet’s atmosphere, and avoiding a specific catastrophe earlier this week.
The ‘Earthgrazer’ is just 91 km below the weather and TV satellites orbiting us in the skies of northern Germany and the Netherlands on September 22nd.
Unlike most other meteors that burn in the atmosphere, which in the process create ‘shooting stars’, this particularly lucky lump of space, perhaps a comet or meteorite, bounces back into space.
The lucky escape from the fate of the Puriel meteorite fire was seen by the camera in the Global Meteor Network, which forms an essential part of the Earth’s rising planet defense network.
GMN aims to cover the world with meteor monitoring cameras and make people aware of nearby space activity through real-time alerts.
“The network is basically a decentralized scientific instrument, made up of amateur astronomers and civil scientists around the planet, each with its own camera system.” Dennis Vida, founder of GMN, explains.
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Essentially an open source planetary defense agency, GMN provides data such as meteor pathways and orbits to both the public and scientific community to help strengthen our observation methods.
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The so-called ‘Earthgrazers’ are rare enough, occurring only a few times each year, during which thousands of meteors burn, with only a few small ones surviving and making it to the ground.
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