The bright light seen streaking across the sky over southeast Australia that captivated residents was most likely caused by remnants of a Russian rocket returning to Earth after a satellite launch, the country’s space agency said Tuesday.
“Oh, my God, are you joking? I can’t believe we just saw that,” two women in Melbourne can be heard saying in social media footage of the fireball“I’ve never seen anything like that. That is huge, whatever that is,” a man says in a second video. Another Melbourne resident joked he “thought it was a UFO” coming to get him.from many people on social media about whether the mysterious light show was a meteor shower.
The rocket was launched earlier in the evening from a Russian spaceport north of Moscow, the Australian Space Agency said, adding that “according to Russian authorities, the launch placed a new generation ‘GLONASS-K2’ global navigation satellite into orbit.” The agency said it would “continue to monitor the outcomes of this reentry” with government authorities.
“The Melbourne meteor was spectacular … and we have some unexpected space junk to thank for it!” Alan Duffy, a professor in astrophysics at Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology,He said the colors produced as the object whizzed across the sky indicated that it was man-made and that pieces of the space junk were burning up, describing it as “one of the most dramatic re-entry videos I have ever come across.
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