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Three cameras of the Belarusian Meteor Network (BMN) in Minsk and Gayany recorded a bright fireball on 8th January 2024 at 01:30:24 UTC. Calculations using UFOOrbit showed that the meteoroid belonged to the Atens group of near-Earth asteroids, whose orbits cross the Earth’s orbit from the inner side (objects-like the asteroid Apophis). Camera in Gayany captured the 1st and 2nd order spectra which...