[meteorite-list] Great Ball Of Fire Lights Up New Zealand Sky

From: magellon <magellon_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:16:29 2004
Message-ID: <3F301392.8CB86BCC_at_earthlink.net>

> No one had been killed by a meteor but in 1911 one was blamed for
> causing the death of a dog, he said.

Uh oh..... (that dog will never die!:>)
kn




Ron Baalke wrote:
>
> http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2600500a11,00.html
>
> Great ball of fire lights up Aucklanders' lives
> www.stuff.co.nz
> 06 August 2003
>
> A spectacular fireball blazed across the northern sky yesterday, a piece
> of the more than 30,000 tonnes of the normally invisible space junk that
> hits Earth each year.
>
> Observers in Auckland and from as far away as Whangarei described a
> flaming, bright-red fireball with a long white tail shooting across the
> sky from the northeast just before 6pm.
>
> One man in Auckland suburb Orakei, who reported the sight to One Tree
> Hill Stardome Observatory, said the meteor appeared to remain bright as
> it disappeared over the horizon.
>
> Another man, who was driving towards the Auckland Harbour Bridge, said
> it was "amazing". "I saw the white light first and then it flared into a
> green flash. I've never seen a green like it before."
>
> Stardome spokeswoman Angela Doherty said the fireball, described as
> having a "lingering white tail", was a piece of either human
> space junk or space rock "that wandered just a bit too close to Earth".
>
> Wellington's Carter Observatory spokesman John Field said it would be
> difficult to gauge the size of the meteor but said it could have been as
> big as a fist or the size of a person's head.
>
> No one had been killed by a meteor but in 1911 one was blamed for
> causing the death of a dog, he said.
>
> Most space debris simply fell harmlessly and invisibly to the ground,
> heating up and burning as it entered the atmosphere before dropping to
> earth.
>
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