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Nick James
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This was an interesting event. A few minutes before impact it would have been visible at around 11th magnitude moving rapidly across the sky as seen from the UK.

I like examples of NTUs (non-technical units) when describing the characteristics of astronomical objects. Bill Barton alerted me to this classic example in the Mail Online.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10610491/Asteroid-half-size-giraffe-strikes-Earth-coast-Iceland.html

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