Astronomers Observe Asteroid Before It Crashes Into Earth
Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 08:21
in Astronomy & Space
UK astronomers observed a rare asteroid as it was hurtling towards our planet and have captured the only spectrum of it before it exploded in our atmosphere.
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