In many places in the country a fireball was seen in the sky tonight. This is a special shape of a shooting star, so named because it lights up much brighter and can be seen for seconds. Reports of people who have seen him come from various places in the country. Several people have been able to film the spectacular phenomenon.
That fireball could be seen around 7 p.m. tonight, quite low above the northern horizon. Reports are reported on social media from observers in Zeeland, Noord-Holland and Groningen, among others.
This motorist’s dashcam filmed the fireball:
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Shooting stars, or meteors as they are officially called, are bits of space debris that burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere. The larger the piece of debris, the brighter the meteor glows and the longer it takes to extinguish.
With extremely large pieces of debris, the meteor is so bright that it is called a fireball.
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