Footage captured from a dashcam shows a huge flare illuminating the sky.
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According to NASA, 100 tons of dust and sand-sized particles hit earth every single year. And roughly once a year Earth’s atmosphere is hit by a car-sized meteor that creates an “impressive fireball”, but burns up before hitting earth.
It’s rare to catch that moment on camera.
But at 20:39 UTC, on the 16th of August in Sardinia, a driver (going by ‘Claudio P’) managed to capture the precise moment a meteor burned up in Earth’s atmosphere. It’s spectacular.
A few other cameras caught footage of the meteor.
To date the American Meteor Society has logged 93 eye-witness reports of the fireball, from France, Italy and even as far as Tunisia in Africa.
