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...

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