Flash over Kyiv believed to be meteorite
A bright flash seen over Kyiv was probably a meteorite, Ukraine's space agency said Thursday, after officials denied it was a satellite or a Russian missile attack.The head of the city's military administration had said that the flash was caused by a NASA satellite returning to Earth. But a NASA spokesman told AFP that this was not the case as the satellite in question was "still in orbit". "We cannot identify what it was exactly, but our assumption is that it was a meteorite," Igor Korniyenko, the deputy head of a control centre at Ukraine's national space agency said Thursday.But he said there was not sufficient data to determine "the exact nature" of what might have caused the flash."Our observation devices showed it was a powerful explosion. We recorded it and determined where it t...