(meteorobs) Reports of bright meteor from Queensland, Australia

[belatrix]

this i gotta hear the outcome of ;)  http://tinyurl.com/mhwkb

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=101650

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"Mystery surrounds green 'comet'
Wednesday May 17 11:55 AEST

By ninemsn staff

An unidentified green object streaked across the Queensland sky last 
night, before landing on a property between Toowoomba and Warwick near 
the Great Dividing Range.

Farmer Don Vernon lives on the property next to where the object hit 
the ground, and watched it come in to land.

"I was finished on the farm and driving home, and as I came in the gate 
I faced this enormous green ball of light with a white centre.


"It disappeared behind a ridge and I immediately drove out over the 
ridge without stopping so I was there in a few minutes.

"When I turned the lights off the car I saw a glowing green ball up on 
the ridge three-quarters of a mile away and a smaller piece was rolling 
down the side of the ridge. They were both glowing green," he said.

Mr Vernon, who is in his seventies, said the object landed on a steep 
section of land that was covered in undergrowth and was not easily 
accessible.

"It was a brilliant light before it landed," he says. "A bit like a 
green sun. I rang a neighbour and asked if he had found superman."

Astronomers are uncertain whether the object was a piece of space junk 
or a meteorite, however Jim Barclay from the Maidenwell Observatory 
suspects it was part of a satellite or some rocket casing.

"The description that I received from phone calls was that it was of a 
greeny blue colour which typically suggests something metallic," Mr 
Barclay said.

"Over 20,000 pieces of space junk are currently hurtling around the 
earth and they have to come back down. If this had landed on someone's 
house though it could have killed someone," he said.

The object, which looked like a comet, was spotted by hundreds of 
people and airport control towers across south-east Queensland at 
around 6:30pm last night." unquote




On 17/05/2006, at 2:39 AM, David Entwistle wrote:

> There are numerous reports of a bright fireball from Eastern Australia.
>
> ABC News Online
> http://tinyurl.com/qtfck
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> The Courier Mail
> http://tinyurl.com/p9j5c
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> The Sunday Times
> http://tinyurl.com/qprxo
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> The Sunday Mail
> http://tinyurl.com/mgg2e
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> David Entwistle
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