The burning debris captured people's attention for over 30 seconds.
They’re blazing chunks of communications equipment from the International Space Station, streaming across the night sky at 17,000 mph.
The 700-pound communications antenna went into space in 2009. In February 2020, the ISS discarded the equipment. The debris orbited the Earth for a couple of years and finally got low enough to break apart and burn up. According to astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, about 10% of such equipment might fall to Earth in small pieces with the rest melting off on the way down.
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