This rare astronomical show happened just before 20:30 on Thursday evening.
In the video, taken by Clinton Kruger, a meteor is seen flashing through Pretoria's night skies.
i just saw a freaking falling star ❤️😭Speaking to Rekord, Kruger said it was astonished to see a shooting star in Pretoria.
- frafra (@Francinedoranxx) May 2, 2019
"I was on the N1 north just before the N4 interchange when I saw it. It was actually much bigger than was captured in the video," he said.
"I was driving with my cousin and my stepfather and none of us expected to see something like it. It was exciting to experience something so unique and to have it on camera is special."
Shooting stars are lights you can sometimes see in the night sky which are caused by tiny bits of dust and rock called meteoroids falling into the Earth's atmosphere and burning up.
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The DART spacecraft launch window begins in late July 2021. DART will launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. After separation from the launch vehicle and over a year of cruise it will intercept Didymos’ moonlet in late September 2022, when the Didymos system is within 11 million kilometers of Earth, enabling observations by ground-based telescopes and planetary radar to measure the change in momentum imparted to the moonlet.The B Comet Swarm:
Several diverse sources have suggested that a catastrophic celestial impact events may occur in Earth's near future...
Future impact events may well occur that could cause blast, tsunamis', and a major weather change resulting in a new Younger Dryas like Ice Age...
Impacts in the Atlantic ocean, Caribbean and Mediterranean sea are anticipated. Peak threat times are September/October 2022 or maybe 2023...
2017 Significant Events:
Meteorite Induced New Hampshire (04 Oct. 2017) and California (08 Oct. 2017) Wild Fires.