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Earth-grazing fireball EN070807 passed through the upper Earth atmosphere with an orbit belonging to the rare Aten asteroid type on 7th August 2007
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EN070807 fireball

The EN070807 fireball is exceptional in two aspects. Firstly, it was a very rare Earth-grazing fireball, which means that some part of its initial mass survived its collision with Earth; and secondly its initial orbit belonged to the rare Aten type.
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