Fireball seen passing over Southern California is identified as Russian space junk
Thursday, December 24, 2015 - 01:01
in Astronomy & Space
Southern Californians marveled Tuesday night at what appeared to be a bright fireball streaking across the evening sky. Was it a comet? Perhaps a particularly showy member of the Ursids meteor shower? Hardly. It was just a piece of Russian space junk. The flashy mystery object was in fact a Russian...