People looking for the International Space Station on Thursday evening also caught something else that was rather incredible.

“It could be either stone, or iron, or even an ice fragment, traveling through space at around at 140,000 miles per hour,” said Joe Wright, operations director at the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Warkoczewski Public Observatory and vice president of the Astrological Society of Kansas City. “[It] crossed into earth’s path, basically came into our atmosphere, [and] because of the speed and the friction started heating up.

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