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South Africa meteor caught on film

Breathtaking CCTV footage of a meteor lighting up the night sky over South Africa has been posted online.

The meteor was spotted by dozens people as it passed over Johannesburg and Pretoria in Kauteng province on Saturday.

The Johannesburg Planetarium subsequently appealed for any witnesses who managed to record the space rock’s fall to come forward with the footage.

“There was sudden flash. Like an orange stripe in the sky, followed by a very bright explosion where the sky lit up as if it was daytime.”

Millions of meteors, or meteoroids as they are properly known, enter the earth’s atmosphere every day, although most are too small to be visible. Their tails of light are produced as they burn up at high speeds.

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