A burning meteor flashed throughout the sky over the New Zealand capital of Wellington on Thursday, with dozens of witnesses saying they noticed a brilliant mild and heard a increase because the fireball handed.
A burning meteor flashed throughout the sky over the New Zealand capital of Wellington on Thursday, with dozens of witnesses saying they noticed a brilliant mild and heard a increase because the fireball handed.
Climate forecaster MetService mentioned on Twitter its radar has a picked up a potential smoke path of the meteor and geological company GeoNet mentioned it believed its seismometer had detected its sound-waves at round 1.50 p.m. (0150 GMT)
Mike Cousins was working from house close to Wellington when the room lit up with bluey-orange hue.
“I ran outdoors and noticed the path of it after which there was this low rumble, identical to at the beginning of an earthquake,” Cousins instructed Reuters.
Alan Gilmore, an astronomer at Canterbury College’s Mount John Observatory, instructed Reuters {that a} brilliant meteor coming down by means of the ambiance very quick was a uncommon incidence over an city space.
“This was glowing very brightly so it will need to have been fairly an enormous object,” mentioned Gilmore. The increase that folks heard indicated the meteor had come inside 60 km (37 miles) of earth, he mentioned.
There have been no stories of the meteor hitting the bottom or ocean and no particles from it had been discovered.
