Red Cross team accidentally captures meteor on camera
The Oldenburg Red Cross said three team members were sailing toward Wangerooge Island as part of a training exercise when a mounted GoPro camera captured the moment that a bright light trailed across the sky. The team members did not notice the meteor at the time, the Red Cross said.
WHAT IS A METEOR?
When meteoroids, i.e., space objects that range in size from a few grains of dust to a few metres in width, enter Earth’s atmosphere at a high speed and burn up, they create a fireball or "shooting star" effect in the sky that's known as a meteor, according to NASA.
Research suggests Earth is hit by around 6,100 meteors annually, which averages out to about 17 a day.