A rare show. The night sky of the state of Victoria, Australia, illuminated thanks to a meteorite this Sunday, August 10 at night. According to the story made by The Guardian, residents evoke a “extremely bright” extremely bright fireball and a loud noise during the passage of the object, documented by dozens of videos and testimonies shared online.
The various testimonies, most of which emanate from the Facebooook meteor group reports, evoke a volcanic fire “lower than a plane”, but close enough to see “shades of shadows of clearly visible black rock formation.”
Others speak of a “great detonation, which looked more like an impact than a supersonic explosion, but that could have been one or the other.”
“My house and the earth trembled,” writes Reus-Smit, resident of the region.
Testimonies evoke an appearance between 7:35 pm and 7:40 pm each time, incandescent light and noise are cited.
The scientific community in agitation
From Sunday night, experts have agreed that the observed fireball is a meteorite. As for its size, “it is probably a rock whose size varies from that of a grapefruit to that of a wheelbarrow,” the amateur astronomer David Finlay announced, who manages the meteorite reports of the Australian page. You can find rubble in the center of Victoria, as reported by the local press.
“That is why this event is so important to us,” says David Finlay.
According to ABC, Monash University scientists are investigating this meteorite using the various recordings, through security cameras that monitor the Australian sky.
For Rachel Kirby, a doctor at the University of Australia, the debris of this meteorite could be “west of the Ballarat, Blessed and Castlemaine region.”
Anyone who finds the meteorite can communicate with the Fireball Desert team of the universities of Monash and Curtin or the Melbourne Museum, which is also involved in the study of this type of phenomenon.
Source: BFM TV
