It’s a hen. … It’s a aircraft. … It’s a meteor?
A number of individuals within the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland reported seeing a big fireball dropping within the sky earlier than 6 a.m. on Thursday — and one area knowledgeable stated he bets it was a meteor.
Video exhibits the ball of sunshine streaking throughout the sky down the east coast of Australia. The eyewitnesses referred to as the sighting in to 2GB radio host Ben Fordham, UPI reported.
Australian Nationwide College astrophysicist Brad Tucker instructed Fordham he believed it was a meteor, with a inexperienced shade indicating iron and nickel burning up within the environment, the outlet reported.
“It’s unlikely fragments fell on the bottom,” Tucker stated.
“It clearly lined quite a lot of distance in a brief period of time. So positively a damaged chunk of an asteroid that randomly hit the Earth’s environment.”
Some asteroids journey at speeds of fifty,000 to 100,000 kilometers per hour, and this one would doubtless have been seen throughout Australia, Tucker added.
