The strange sight was spotted over Sacramento. 👀👀👀
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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