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'Fireball' Meteor Caught on Camera Lights Up the Sky in Southern Australia
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0:10Now PlayingA meteorite has been captured falling to earth in Central Australia by Northern Territory Police CCTV cameras.
Dashcam and CCTV vision show a ball of light racing through the sky before exploding just before midnight, triggering reports from Adelaide to the Gippsland coast in Victoria’s east.
Tons of space material enters the earth’s atmosphere every day, much of it during daylight hours, meaning it’s not visible to the naked eye. And when it does happen at night, there needs to be someone looking up at the right time.
Astronomer David Finlay, who administrates the Australia Meteor Report Facebook page, said he believed people had seen a small meteor.
"It's pretty obvious that it's a meteor. It's small asteroid that's created this and has started to vaporise over the skies of South Australia," he said.
"From every indication so far, the bits of dashcam footage coming, and importantly, the reports of a sonic boom, all those are evidence that lead us to believe that this may have survived to the ground. It just depends where it's landed.
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