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Flaming Space Junk Makes Jaws Drop in Australia
Frame grab from a Youtube video of the brilliant meteor that flared over Australia overnight.
“It first looked like a plane with fire coming out of the tail.” – Aaron O.
“I have never seen anything like it. Big, bright and moving gently across sky – slower than a plane, not falling at all but moving across.” – Shannon H.
“Viewed from cockpit of aircraft at 37,000′. Was visible for two or three minutes.” – Landy T.
Flaming plane? Incandescent visitor from the asteroid belt? The brilliant and s-l-o-w fireball that seared the sky over southeastern Australia tonight was probably one of the most spectacular displays of re-entering space junk witnessed in recent years.(…)
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© Bob King for Universe Today, 2014. |
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