Meteoroid expected to safely strike Earth's atmosphere Sunday evening over France

A mini meteorite astir 1 metre successful magnitude is expected to safely onslaught Earth's ambiance over bluish France astir 10:00 p.m. ET connected Sunday evening, nan European Space Agency said.

The meteorite, dubbed Sar2667, will participate nan ambiance complete Rouen, France, and should beryllium visible successful Belgium, nan Netherlands, bluish France, and confederate England, according to nan International Meteor Organization. 

It marks only nan 7th clip that astronomers person spotted an asteroid earlier it strikes Earth, a inclination that nan ESA attributes to "rapid advancements successful world asteroid discovery capabilities." 

FILE PHOTO: A meteorite creates a streak of ray crossed nan nighttime entity complete nan North Yorkshire moors astatine Leaholm, adjacent Whitby, bluish England. (REUTERS/Steven Watt/File Photo)

The past asteroid that was detected earlier breaching Earth's atmosphere, 2022 WJ1, was spotted conscionable 4 hours earlier lighting up nan skies over Toronto, Canada, connected Nov. 19, 2022. 

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Small meteoroids for illustration Sar2667 onslaught Earth each mates of weeks but aren't a large threat to nan planet.

Astronomers currently cognize of much than 1.1 cardinal asteroids, astir 30,600 of which suffice arsenic near-Earth asteroids because their orbit brings them adjacent to our planet, according to nan ESA. 

This image made disposable by NOIRLab shows a plume of particulate and debris blasted from nan aboveground of nan asteroid Dimorphos by NASA's DART spacecraft aft it impacted connected Sept. 26, 2022, captured by nan U.S. National Science Foundation's NOIRLab's SOAR scope successful Chile.  (Teddy Kareta, Matthew Knight/NOIRLab via AP)

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NASA, nan ESA, and different organizations astir nan world are stepping up their planetary defense capabilities successful lawsuit a planet-destroying asteroid ever gets connected way to onslaught Earth. 

Last year, NASA's Dart spacecraft destroyed nan asteroid Dimorphos successful a dress rehearsal of nan agency's kinetic effect technique.