Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2023 February 17 [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available. 2023 CX1 Meteor Flash Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Gijs de Reijke Explanation: [5]While scanning the skies for near earth objects Hungarian astronomer [6]Krisztián Sárneczky first imaged the meter-sized space rock now [7]cataloged as 2023 CX1 on 12 February 2023 at 20:18:07 UTC. That was about 7 hours before it impacted planet Earth's atmosphere. Its predicted trajectory created a rare opportunity for meteor observers and a last minute plan resulted in [8]this spectacular image of the fireball, captured from the Netherlands as [9]2023 CX1 vaporized and broke up over northern France. Remarkably it was Sárneczky's second discovery of an impacting asteroid, while 2023 CX1 is only the seventh asteroid to be detected before being successfully predicted to impact Earth. It has recently become the third such object from which [10]meteorites have been recovered. This fireball was witnessed [11]almost 10 years to the day following the infamous [12]Chelyabinsk Meteor flash. Tomorrow's picture: light-weekend __________________________________________________________________ [13]< | [14]Archive | [15]Submissions | [16]Index | [17]Search | [18]Calendar | [19]RSS | [20]Education | [21]About APOD | [22]Discuss | [23]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [24]Robert Nemiroff ([25]MTU) & [26]Jerry Bonnell ([27]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [28]Specific rights apply. [29]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [30]ASD at [31]NASA / [32]GSFC, [33]NASA Science Activation & [34]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2302/gijsDSC_1917(2x3)1600px.jpg 3. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 4. https://www.instagram.com/gijs.de.reijke/ 5. https://twitter.com/sarneczky/status/1625125629279588353 6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriszti%C3%A1n_S%C3%A1rneczky 7. https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=%E2%9C%93&object_id=2023+cx1 8. https://www.instagram.com/p/ComLk_DMtTl/ 9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_CX1 10. https://earthsky.org/space/small-asteroid-impact-near-france-english-channel/ 11. https://blogs.nasa.gov/planetarydefense/2023/02/15/remembering-the-chelyabinsk-impact-10-years-ago-and-looking-to-the-future/ 12. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130223.html 13. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230217.html 14. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 15. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 16. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 17. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 18. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 20. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 21. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 22. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=230218 23. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230219.html 24. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 25. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 26. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 27. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 28. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 29. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 30. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 31. https://www.nasa.gov/ 32. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 33. https://science.nasa.gov/learners 34. http://www.mtu.edu/