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Wayward Meteorite Defies Laws of Solar System

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Skies Light Up Over Western Australia Source:  NASA Glazing Fireball Streak of Light the Width of Texas  The celestial event, called a Grazing Fireball, happened over Western Australia. The meteorite that blazed over the night skies took a highly unusual path.  For a minute and a half it burned, carving an arc of blazing light as wide as the state of  Texas, then it faded away and took back off into space.  It's being called the meteorite that ignored the one way signs of our Solar system. On to Jupiter What's incredible is this meteorite didn't disintegrate in our atmosphere or crash to Earth.  After the light display faded, it took off back into space.  According to Australian astronomers and scientists, who have just released their findings on the event, that happened in July 2017, the wrong  way meteorite is headed to Jupiter They say, the likely arrival date is 2025. Blazing Speed This is an extremely unusual ce