[meteorite-list] Huge Meteor Spotted Over Australia?

From: Ron Baalke <baalke_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Jul 28 19:19:12 2004
Message-ID: <200407282319.QAA17016_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1164310.htm

Meteor lights up central Victorian sky
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
July 29, 2004

A huge meteor has been seen in the skies over central Victoria.

There have been reports of a big red and blue light streaking
over the Castlemaine area just after 1:00am AEST today.

Policewoman Senior Constable Sharon McEachern says she was
on patrol duty with a colleague in Maldon when she saw the
light in the sky.

She says it was a spectacular sight that lasted about 15
seconds.

"A bright blue light going across the sky...not coming
straight down and it just had a large blue tail and a bright
red ball and then as it went across it just exploded into
pieces, so I'm not sure whether it was a comet, or a
meteor, or what it was," she said.
Received on Wed 28 Jul 2004 07:19:07 PM PDT