While scanning the skies for near-earth objects and Hungarian astronomer first imaged the meter-sized space rock, that was about seven hours before it impacted planet Earth's atmosphere. Its predicted trajectory created a rare opportunity for meteor observers and a last-minute plan resulted in this spectacular image of the fireball, captured from the Netherlands it vaporized and broke up over Northern France. Remarkably it was Sarnexky's second discovery of an impacting asteroid, while it is only the seventh asteroid to be detected before being successfully predicted to impact Earth. It has recently become the third such object from which meteorites have been recovered.