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                                 2023 February 17   
      
                               2023 CX1 Meteor Flash   
                     Image Credit & Copyright: Gijs de Reijke   
      
      Explanation: While scanning the skies for near earth objects Hungarian   
      astronomer Krisztißn Sßrneczky first imaged the meter-sized space rock   
      now cataloged as 2023 CX1 on 12 February 2023 at 20:18:07 UTC. That was   
      about 7 hours before it impacted planet Earth's atmosphere. Its   
      predicted trajectory created a rare opportunity for meteor observers   
      and a last minute plan resulted in this spectacular image of the   
      fireball, captured from the Netherlands as 2023 CX1 vaporized and broke   
      up over northern France. Remarkably it was Sßrneczky's second discovery   
      of an impacting asteroid, while 2023 CX1 is only the seventh asteroid   
      to be detected before being successfully predicted to impact Earth. It   
      has recently become the third such object from which meteorites have   
      been recovered. This fireball was witnessed almost 10 years to the day   
      following the infamous Chelyabinsk Meteor flash.   
      
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