[meteorite-list] Massive meteor event over Southeastern Australia

From: Michael Mulgrew <mikestang_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:47:11 -0700
Message-ID: <CAMseTy0eFPvZ91=HVPaypz8cm7PGyrqbfxoMeRJvn4go41-0xw_at_mail.gmail.com>

It looks like space junk to these untrained eyes, too slow for a
cosmic velocity object.

Michael in so. Cal.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Jeff Kuyken via Meteorite-list
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There was a huge meteor event over southeastern Australia tonight that was seen across both Melbourne and Sydney. Just google news search meteor and there are videos piling up online everywhere. Twitter is also alive.
>
> Just wondering if the gurus on the list are able to check any space junk re-entry sources? At first, I thought the first video I was sent was a repost of Hayabusa re entry or something similar. Very slow and unusual breakup. Would be interested to hear other thoughts.
>
> www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWNEb5LY348
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
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