An astronaut on the International Space Station has revealed his scariest moment - watching a large meteorite burn up over Australia. <\/p>\n
Colonel Chris Hadfield, 53, a former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot, is on board the ISS as the leader of Expedition 35. <\/p>\n
Col Hadfield, who has also flown two space shuttle missions, blasted off for the ISS on December 19 on board a Russian Soyuz TMA-07M. <\/p>\n
He has been keeping in touch with followers on Earth using social news site Reddit to host a question-and-answer session. <\/p>\n
Reddit user unfortunatelyhuman asked him: \"Which part of the world looks the coolest from space?\" <\/p>\n
The astronaut, who has been tweeting pictures from space , replied: \"Australia looks coolest - the colours and textures of the Outback are severely artistic. <\/p>\n
\"The most beautiful to me are the Bahamas, the vast glowing reefs of every shade of blue that exists.\" <\/p>\n
But it was also while the space station was over Australia that he admitted he had had his most scary moment - the meteorite encounter. <\/p>\n
He wrote: \"I watched a large meteorite burn up between me and Australia. <\/p>\n
\"To think of that hypersonic dumb lump of rock randomly hurtling into us instead sent a shiver up my back.\" <\/p>\n
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