Case file · Cosmic event
Asteroid 2018 LA over Botswana
On 2 June 2018 a small asteroid, found only about eight hours earlier, exploded as a fireball over the Botswana–South Africa border region.
2018 CE · -21.00, 24.00 · status: official
The account
It was only the third asteroid spotted before striking Earth. Security cameras and farmers filmed the fireball, and a search team later recovered meteorite fragments in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.