Suspected meteor lights up the early morning sky over Australia
Published in Weird News
(UPI) A bright fireball that illuminated the early morning sky over Australia's New South Wales and Queensland is believed to have been a particularly large fireball.
Multiple residents from across the two states reported spotting a bright fireball in the sky before 6 a.m. Thursday, sparking speculation of what the object could be.
Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist with Australian National University, told 2GB radio host Ben Fordham that the object was most likely a meteor. He said the green color reported by some witnesses indicates iron and nickel burning up in the atmosphere.
"It's unlikely fragments fell on the ground," Tucker said. It clearly covered a lot of distance in a short amount of time. So definitely a broken chunk of an asteroid that randomly hit the Earth's atmosphere.
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