SubscribeNo, Those Were Not Meteors Streaking Through The Seattle Sky Last Night (VIDEO)
Those in the Seattle area were treated to a spectacle last night as what looked like meteors streaked through the night sky.
But it wasn't meteors or aliens they were watching; instead, it was debris from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that had launched earlier this month.
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Uhhh so this just happened in Seattle.... taken from my balcony https://t.co/HU1zSxiIbD— Lucas (@Lucas) 1616731517.0
Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, says the debris comes from a rocket from SpaceX's Starlink launch, which took place on March 4.
The rocket had reportedly failed to make a "deorbit burn" and reentered Earth's atmosphere after spending 22 days in orbit.
McDowell says this is actually a common occurrence, as this is the 14th piece of what he describes as "space junk with a mass over one tonne" to reenter this year.
