Detected before arrival
The arrival of this fireball, about a meter in diameter, had, however, unusually been announced in advance. Earlier in the day, the asteroid had actually been detected by “Jacqueline Fazekas, an observer from the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS), a program funded by NASA,” explains Franceinfo.
It was then nicknamed CAQTDL2 by CSS, who published images on On social networks, many anonymous people published spectacular images of this phenomenon.