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A Chinese rocket booster weighing approximately four tons reentered the Earth's atmosphere on March 8 over Texas at 17,000 mph and ultimately disintegrated. ....
A bright and mysterious fireball flying through the sky across scotland and parts of ireland and the uk wednesday night. hundreds of people saw this thing. it was in the sky, look. there you go. for about 10 to 20 seconds. cnn s space and defense correspondent kristen fisher is with us now. what was it? well, we don t know yet with 100% certainty, but a group called the uk meteor network is convinced it was a meteor, which is a small piece of an asteroid which was breaking up as it entered the earth s atmosphere. the other possible theory that s been floating around is it was a piece of space junk. like an old satellite or a spent rocket body burning up as it re-entered the earth s atmosphere. but most experts seem to be coming into agreement that this was a meteor. ....
The painstaking job of monitoring space junk is getting harder, making it more difficult to predict the impact on services and future space flight. ....
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