Footage was also taken of the object that appeared over Queensland.
A stunning meteor appeared over the northern part of Queensland, Australia, on Saturday evening local time, The Guardian reports. Watchman. The body was destroyed in a massive explosion.
Several people have been able to record the event, where you can see how the meteor turns into a ball of fire as it approaches the surface, then produces a teal explosion.
Dr. Brad TuckerAn astrophysicist at the Australian National University said the space rock may be 0.5-1 meter wide and could reach a speed of 150,000 kilometers per hour. The green color may be caused by the high temperature of the iron and nickel pieces in the meteorite, and some of the pieces may have reached the surface.
Since the object was so fragmented, its pieces could not form a crater. Tucker confirmed: The object was not threatened.
Many meteorites hit the Earth every day, but most of them reach the atmosphere over a small or uninhabited area, which is why similar videos are filmed relatively rarely. The majority of meteorites that meet our planet are completely harmless, although some objects are capable of being destroyed, as proved by the Chelyabinsk meteorite explosion ten years ago.
