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Meteorite lights up WA skies


Mad Manfred

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A spectacular meteorite fireball has lit up the sky over a wide area of Western Australia.

The spectacle is reported to have been in the north of the state, also as far east as Kalgoorlie, nearly 500km from Perth, and in the south at Albany, which is just over 400km from the capital.

Astronomers believe the meteorite, flashing brightly and sending out sonic booms, smashed into the earth's atmosphere about 300km southeast of Perth at 8.47pm yesterday.

It is thought to be the biggest celestial light show seen in WA in a decade.

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Can someone find the footage? It's really quite brilliant...seemed like it moved very slowly though.

Basically it was like a massive ball of burning white light that seemed to erupt occassionally on its decent until it eventually hit the earth.

Shame it didn't land on Parliament :P

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Pretty cool, I've seen one some time ago but it was like a falling star only bigger, didn't had all those lightning effects happening :P

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Nothing like this ever happens over south Georgia. I guess that could be a good thing because nothing like that ever crashes in south Georgia either!

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Nothing like this ever happens over south Georgia. I guess that could be a good thing because nothing like that ever crashes in south Georgia either!

That's pretty rare stuff there!

A very large meteor (likely something substantially large...like a rock about half meter accross or so), travelling at perhaps 60,000+ miles per hour would absolutely produce that effect.

Never saw anything like that in the Northeastern U.S. Best we see is a large, possibly colored (trail...due to particular metal presence) meteorite that takes a good long trek accross the sky for perhaps 5 seconds or so, but the brightest of those are particulates that probably don't range more than half inch in diameter.

Good show!

Bet it scared the heck out of folks down there...

The only tbning that could approximate that spectacle would be the re-entry of a spacecraft into the atmosphere at night...but that would be much slower, and longer lasting, and not explosive looking, as this meteor was....

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