WATCH: Meteorite captured falling in the North West
A video shows a meteorite falling in Ottosdal in the North West.
Barend Swanepoel‚ a farmer near Ottosdal in North West, shared CCTV footage on Facebook saying, "Die meteoriet het naby deelpan geval volgens ooggetuies."
In the video, a bright flash can be seen crashing into the horizon and then it suddenly disappears.
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T. Marshall Eubanks, a physicist and VLBI radio astronomer, took to Twitter to shed more light on the incident.
This asteroid (ZLAF9B2) has now "posthumously" been given the name 2018 LA, one day after it exploded in the air over Botswana. https://t.co/p8o4bXGoXO https://t.co/SXSTXwHV0d
— T. Marshall Eubanks (@TM_Eubanks) June 3, 2018
Another Facebook page, Suburban Control Centre said, "There are two meteorites that have come down, one fell between Lichtenburg and Mafikeng, and the one in the video fell between Hartebeesfontein & Coligny."
Watch the amazing footage below.