Fireballs seen over Alabama: Were they meteors or a Chinese satellite?

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Fireballs seen over Alabama: Were they meteors or a Chinese satellite?
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Photos came from observers in a cluster of Southern states including Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Georgia.

Actually it appears there were a couple of things that streaked across the night sky, one at about 5:30 p.m. Central time and the other at about 10:11 p.m.that he’d received more information on the first event from William J. Cooke, lead of NASA’s Meteoroid Environments Office., Cooke said that the fireball seen at 5:30 p.m. was “caused by a piece of an asteroid weighing about a pound hitting the atmosphere at 33,500 miles per hour.

Spann said unnamed astronomers had identified it as a case of “space junk” burning up as it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere. On X.com,McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., said the satellite “reentered above New Orleans at 0408 UTC Dec 22 heading northbound towards MS, AR, MO and was widely observed.”, a scientist at the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division at the Johnson Space Center, said on X.

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