Fireball from Solar System's edge isn't what astronomers exp

Just before dawn on 22 February 2021, a fireball lit up the skies across Canada's Alberta (see video below) province when a 2-kilogram space rock vaporized as it plunged through Earth's atmosphere. Although the object hailed from the Oort Cloud —...

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