A mysterious noise and light witnessed by hundreds of residents in Melbourne’s north was likely a meteor burning up after entering the Earth’s atmosphere, scientists say.
Victoria Police said they sent officers to patrol the streets of Doreen after receiving numerous reports of an explosion, but were “unable to locate a scene or the source of the noise”. “There was a Starlink launch by SpaceX at about what would have been 9pm our time, but it was a textbook launch, there were no issues with the rocket,” she said.
“The locals were reporting not just one boom but a few and that would indicate that we had several different pieces,” she said. “The brightness and the explosion will all be relative to size, so that kind of gives us a clue that it was probably on the smaller side, the fact that it wasn’t over a larger area.Iles said if any fragments of the asteroid had landed somewhere out in a paddock near Doreen, they’d likely be the size of a golf ball.
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