Scientists have claimed that a fireball spotted over the Australian desert in 2016 may have been a minimoon that had lost its place in orbit. Mini Moons are thought to be space rocks that have been captured by Earth’s gravity but only for a short time. Researchers after determining the object’s velocity concluded that this object was orbiting earth before being pulled in by gravity and burst out in our planet’s atmosphere. This object is considered as a rare example of a “minimoon.” Scientists are hoping that new ground-based telescopes may provide us the opportunity to detect and research similar minimoons for months or even years before they meet their destructive ends.