Huge meteor! Who else saw it? Heading west over north of Melbourne.
9:44pm. Travelling slow, but was breaking up. Incredibly bright, tail about a handspan long at arm's length (viewing from Newport).
Posted Jul 10, 2014, 11:46 AM UTC
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That wasn't a meteor, that was Tony Abbott's approval rating.
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#brave
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If it was brave it wouldn't be true, think about it.
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I'm trying to figure out what you meant, but I can't. On the plus side, you sound like a proverb or some shit.
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Yet true.
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Yet #brave.
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I saw this amazing spectacle while driving toward melbourne, just near Werribee. It's been cloudy most of the day but the sky opened up and.... Looking toward the south i noticed a moving and flashing object in the sky and initially thought it was a plane. It appeared to move slowly however it quickly became clear that it was a MASSIVE fireball hurtling through the sky! I watched it for at least 45 seconds as it tore across the outer rim of our atmosphere with a long tail and sections breaking off and exploding right before my eyes! I'll never forget it. Absofuckinglutelyamazing.
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Can you tell me the date when that amazing massive fireball happen to fly over Melbourne just near Werribee. IT sound like its happen before
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How the fuck did so many people see it?
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It was massive and bright, you could see parts of it breaking away. From how slowly it seemed to move across the sky it must have been really high up.
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Having never seen a meteor before, I must say it seemed a bit deceiving - I thought it was quite low when I was looking at it, I was almost expecting it to crash and make a massive bang or something! I've seen tweets from people in NSW who say they saw it too, so yeah... must have been big :)
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Saw it from Heidelberg. I initially was concerned it was something else; currently watching a documentary about Boing 747's, so...
I am convinced I saw bits of it break off too, was uber cool :)
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Yeah man little blueish specs falling off and leaving little tails themselves. I got a fear-boner.
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Wow, reports of explosions around Melbourne :-O https://twitter.com/incident_alert/status/487206887046520833
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Yeah - got a couple of photos. Lasted at least 30 seconds and covered the arc from due east to due north.
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A pretty average iPhone photo I had to crop a little Imgur
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I want to believe.
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Post it to link above
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Nice grab.
Iphone will never take that photo clearly
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Photos please!
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i saw it too.... this is the only info i can find! http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/mbiq-detects-australia-meteor-10jul2014.html
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From that page it looks like people saw as far north as QLD and as far south as Tas!
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ex amateur (spend all ones time outside looking at the sky) and professional (spend all ones time looking at a computer screen) astronomer here. I've missed so many bright bolides and fireballs by looking at the ground 180degrees away from the bolide when they happen. Everyone shouts out "oh look!" and the ground lights up in front of you, but by the time you spin around and look, all you get to see is the fading train.
And so naturally enough, I missed this one too.
But I would have had no idea what it was until I logged onto the Twitsface. Way too slow to be something from space. A little too bright to be your typical bit of spacejunk. But now we know: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/fireball-seen-over-australian-skies-was-space-debris-from-russian-rocket-20140711-zt3pu.html
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Saw it! From Docklands!
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Just Rainbow Road guys, nothing to worry about.
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Nice! Anyone get some pics?
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I saw it from north-central vic :D I've never seen anything like it before.
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Holy shit! I thought I saw something HOURS ago near Bendigo, about 3pm. I've got a vague photo, I'm amazed to see this posted now..
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Hours ago? So it would have to have been a different one... Isn't this how some sci-fi invasion movies start?
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Can't be. Everyone knows aliens go the the usa
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God I hope so. Maybe finally we'll get some decent management to run this joint.
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Yeah seriously this is freaky deaky. It was in broad daylight.. I for one welcome our new meteor-dwelling overlords. Just to save my ass
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Could be a young Superman arriving (my condolences to the residents of Krypton)
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Yep, got a nice long view of it from the top of Lygon St. Thought it was a plane at first.
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Ok cool so we all just saw that ... not just me, sweet.
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Seen it pass over elsternwick, breaking apart. Unreal hi!
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Yeah, saw it in Balwyn, there was a large orange tail from our view in the back garden.
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I saw it from Ashwood. It took me a while to realise what it was.
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Here's a good video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS0EA15eA-Y
That looks too slow for a meteor.
Maybe a satellite reentering?
Edit - Try this one on for size : http://www.satview.org/spacejunk.php?sat_id=40077U
That's sweet. Wish I saw it in person :(
I saw it, the video didn't really capture how long the tail of it was.
Yeah, I saw it too, it was very long and slow. I was sure it was an airplane with some sort of engine issue. Good to find out it wasn't!
Ye - that's super visible for what I can only assume is a cell phone camera at night. Must've looked amazing!
I remember missing the Geelong Earthquake by going to bed early. Today, I decided not to go to my friends tonight, probably would have saw the meteor if I did. :C
Lucky. I was super drunk and the walls were already moving :P
Was reported on the 11pm ABC news as Space Junk.