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Astronomers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center have recorded the brightest meteor ever seen by their network. On May 20, 2011, six-foot diameter fragment of an unknown comet entered the atmosphere about 66 miles above Macon, Ga., traveling northwest at a speed of about 86,000 mph.
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