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meteor

A light appeared in the sky just moments before the scrubbed launch of a Delta IV Heavy rocket that would have taken off from Vandenberg Air Force Base on Wednesday December 19, 2018. Photo by Stephen Carr.
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The rocket got canceled, but what was that other weird light in the sky?

Avatar photo by Valerie Osier Dec 20, 2018

The light and cloud were from a ping-pong ball sized meteor entering the atmosphere at about 63,000 miles per hour, what NASA calls a “fireball.”

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