A long-lasting fireball that broke into several pieces over South Florida this morning could be a piece of space junk forecast to fall to Earth today, said an official with the American Meteor Society.
Mike Hankey, the operations manager for AMS, said he is “100 percent sure” the lights were space debris breaking up in the atmosphere.
According to the website Satview.org, a piece of space junk was expected to reenter the atmosphere at about 7 a.m. this morning.
Read more at The Palm Beach Post.
