Footage shows the moment a meteorite shot through the Kent sky before plunging into the North Sea.<\/p>\n
Zahra McLaughlan was looking at her CCTV after problems with anti-social youths when she noticed the bright light on her camera.<\/p>\n
It was visible at around 12.25am on Monday (April 13).<\/p>\n
Zahra, of Marlowe Road in Larkfield, was left stunned by what she saw and decided to find out what it was.<\/p>\n
She told KentOnline: \u201cI was checking back over our security camera and I caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of my eye and wondered what on earth it was, so slowed it down and viewed it again.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn’t really know what it was to be honest, as other meteors that I’ve seen online haven’t been as large or as bright.<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn’t believe we had captured such a good view of it. It’s a shame it disappeared behind the house.\u201d<\/p>\n
The meteorite plunged into the North Sea. Picture: UK Meteors
The UK Meteor Data Archive confirmed the fireball was seen in the sky over Europe on Monday morning. Picture: UK Meteors<\/p>\n
Someone from the Meteor Network told the homeowner it was a \u201cpretty bright fireball\u201d that went over the North Sea.<\/p>\n
Charlotte Bays, secretary of the UK Fireball Alliance, said the meteor had been spotted across northern Europe, but finding any material from it was unlikely.<\/p>\n
She said: “Based on the fireball trajectory, the event occurred over the North Sea so, sadly, we do not expect any recoverable meteorites.”<\/p>\n
Meteor showers occur at regular intervals as the Earth passes through the trail of dusty debris left by comets and asteroids.<\/p>\n
This month sees the Lyrids meteor shower, with activity expected to peak next week (April 21-22).<\/p>\n
Scientists estimate that about 48.5 tons of meteoritic material falls on Earth each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Footage shows the moment a meteorite shot through the Kent sky before plunging into the North Sea. Zahra…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,192,191,1318,3527,90,194,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-530756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-human-interest","10":"tag-kent","11":"tag-maidstone","12":"tag-malling","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-syndicate","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}