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Meteor lights up Alabama sky

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This meteor was caught on camera Monday night. (Source: Marshall Space Flight Center)

HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF)- A fireball lit up the sky over Alabama on Monday night. Marshall Space Flight Center reported that around 8:20 p.m., a baseball size fragment of a comet entered the atmosphere, moving southwest at 76,000 miles per hour. The meteor disintegrated three minutes after hitting the atmosphere, twenty-five miles above Woodstock. The disintegration let out a flash of light almost...


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