It almost looked like daylight… we all looked back and saw it.
It felt like a movie, we all looked at each other and we were stunned.
It was amazing, shared the excited Bernardo.
Early reports claim that the blue flash could be seen darting through the night sky for hundreds of kilometers.
Other reports say it was closer to Pinheiro,X user Colin Ruggshared on social media.
The likelihood of any meteorites being found is very low.
The Spanish Observatorio de Calar Alto also confirmed that the object had a cometary origin.
Currently, its estimated that there are about 1.3 million known asteroids and more than 3,800 known comets.
Free-floating rocky objects smaller than asteroids are called meteoroids, and those larger than asteroids are called dwarf planets.
According to scientists, anastonishing48.5 tons of meteoritic material falls on Earth every day.
They range from a few miles to tens of miles wide.
The largest comet ever discovered is Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein, which is 120 kilometers (75 miles) wide.
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