(MENAFN- AzerNews) A small asteroid exploded in the sky over Berlin on Sunday
night, the Bild am Sonntag said, Azernews reports
citing foreign media.
The fireball left a long trail of light in the sky. The
celestial body could also be observed in Leipzig and Prague.
According to NASA calculations, it was supposed to fall in
Nehnhausen in the federal state of Brandenburg. The asteroid, as
the newspaper notes, had a diameter of only about 1 meter. Most of
the rock was probably burned.
Search teams are expected to hit the area on Sunday to look for
debris as it could be worth several hundred thousand euros.
The arrival of the asteroid was known in advance. It was
precisely calculated by experts. This was only the eighth time such
an event could have been predicted, the newspaper said.
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