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Meteor spotted on Seven News

Seven News viewers spotted something very unusual during last night's news...

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A very strange light was spotted last night moving over the Sydney skyline during Seven News.

Viewers on social media took to social media to speculate if it may have been a meteor.

Mark Ferguson today told Sunrise, “We replayed it and had a good look and we couldn’t believe it; what a shock!”

Canberra Times also reports a number of Canberrans reported seeing the bright green fireball flying over the city about 6.45pm on Wednesday.

Astrophysicist Dr Brad Tucker from Australian National University later confirmed to Sunrise: “This was a meteor. It was probably about half a metre to 1m in size.

“It travelled all the way down towards the NSW / Victoria border, and there are reports that it exploded around Jindabyne.”

Tucker said the space rock would have “burned up” when it entered the atmosphere, causing small fragments to “fall to the ground.”

“So there is someone waking up in southern NSW or northern Victoria that has some meteorites in their backyard or paddock, and they’re theirs to keep.”

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  1. I’m sure Seven News Sydney had another meteor in the background earlier this year. If memory serves it was on a night that Musher was presenting. They made a big deal of that one the next day too.

  3. This happens so often, doesn’t usually get a second glance and people carry on as if nothing happened to the point where it’s really not newsworthy or notable unless it’s a meteor like the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor event that turned night into day and shattered windows. It’s typical slow news day news reporting.

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