Huge asteroid Sar2667 explosion captured in amazing…

Huge asteroid Sar2667 explosion captured in amazing CCTV video from farm in Gower

This is the amazing moment an asteroid plummeted through the Earth's atmosphere before exploding over the English Channel, and it was all captured on a camera in Gower. Whilst farmer Em Oliver slept through the night, a CCTV camera on her farm in Slade, Oxwich caught the impressive sight.

Em, 35, said that after waking up on Monday morning and learning of the asteroid having fallen through the Earth's atmosphere and exploding just outside London, she ran "straight to the cameras" on her farm - and was delighted to catch footage of the incredible event.

Sharing the video on social media, Em said: "When you see the headline, 'Huge asteroid explodes just outside London in historic airburst first,' Farmer Em goes straight to the cameras and YEEESSSS - it could be seen from Gower! Glad I didn't see it in person though. I may have run for my life if I saw it. It's amazing to even see it on here!"

Recap: Huge meteor fireball as Asteroid Sar2667 explodes over English Channel in historic airburst first

A CCTV camera on a farm in Gower caught the moment an asteroid hurtled through the atmosphere and exploded over the English Channel (Em Oliver)

Em said this was the second time she'd caught something impressive on her security camera, coming just weeks after she captured a short clip of a meteor. She said she'd "always wanted" to see a shooting star or asteroid in real-life, but considered catching the phenomenon on her camera as "the next best thing".

Whilst the footage was a bit "grainy," she said, it clearly shows the asteroid plummeting through the atmosphere before exploding as it landed - with a bright flash appearing on camera.

"I saw the article online about the asteroid being seen at 3am so checked our security cameras at that time and saw it on there! It's the second time I've caught something on my security camera," Em said. "We didn't hear anything [at the time]."

Fortunately, Em's cows and sheep were unperturbed too. "There was no sign of any issues with the animals this morning," she added. For more stories about Gower, go here.

A 'historic first'

Sar 2667 enters the Earth's atmosphere, as seen from the top of Farthing Downs, near Coulsdon, Surrey (Martin O'Reilly/PA Wire)

As we reported earlier, the one-metre asteroid has been named Sar2667 and exploded over the English Channel in a huge meteor fireball "airburst" at around 3am this morning (Monday, February 13). Scientists were able to predict when and where the airburst would happen, for only the seventh time ever, after they spotted it approaching the Earth's atmosphere just hours before.

Physicist and airburst specialist Mark Boslough, from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, USA, told Wales Online that while "airbursts of this size happen somewhere several times per year" they are "rarely discovered in advance."

He further confirmed this was only the seventh time in history one had been discovered in advance and said it was the first time in history this had happened "over a populated area with enough warning to get data".