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Botswana: Fallen meteorite tracked to its birthplace in the asteroid belt
26/04/2021 07:43 PM | Click to read full article
A small asteroid barreled through the sky and burned up over the Kalahari Desert of Botswana in the summer of 2018 and now, scientists suspect that the space rock originated from Vesta, the second largest asteroid in the solar system.
The small asteroid, named 2018 LA, was first observed through a telescope at the University of Arizona's Catalina Sky Survey.
