MikeyB
15-06-2020, 12:01 PM
I was interested to come across the below news item this morning, with its very cool amateur videos of a spectacular fireball over north-west WA last night:
https://www.9news.com.au/world/wa-asteroid-green-glow-captured-on-camera-as-2002-nn4-asteroid-passes-the-earth/0821475c-7120-4b9a-a35e-9d4d71fc9a77
However the article goes on to say:
Somebody has their wires very crossed - 2002 NN4 passed by Earth on 6th June and for all its size would have been invisible to the naked eye. This event is clearly an atmospheric burn, possibly space junk (the spent kick stage from Rocket Lab's 13th June Don't Stop Me Now launch perhaps?), although from the colour and lack of obvious fragmentation, it could also have been a nickel-iron meteor, I think.
https://www.9news.com.au/world/wa-asteroid-green-glow-captured-on-camera-as-2002-nn4-asteroid-passes-the-earth/0821475c-7120-4b9a-a35e-9d4d71fc9a77
However the article goes on to say:
Somebody has their wires very crossed - 2002 NN4 passed by Earth on 6th June and for all its size would have been invisible to the naked eye. This event is clearly an atmospheric burn, possibly space junk (the spent kick stage from Rocket Lab's 13th June Don't Stop Me Now launch perhaps?), although from the colour and lack of obvious fragmentation, it could also have been a nickel-iron meteor, I think.