Cameras have captured the rare sight of an ‘Earthgrazer’ meteoroid skimming our planet’s atmosphere before “bouncing” back into space.

This particular meteoroid got hair-raisingly close, flying as low as 56 miles up in the sky, far below any orbiting satellites, before bouncing back out again.

The space rock whizzed through the night sky above Northern Germany and the Netherlands in the early hours of 22 September.