[SMR (Steve)]

Originally Posted by robagar

didn't see anything myself here in Cairns, but over in NZ they saw a bright white meteor with sonic boom - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/12/nz_meteor/
may be part of the same thing deorbiting?

The event in NZ was quite spectacular. Dennis Goodman of the RASNZ said the sonic boom in Christchurch was enough to shake the house and windows, and went "on for ages". But his event occured around 3PM NZ time, which is 1PM in Qld and 12:30 in the NT. So it's not the same object, but they might be related.

Apparently no large space junk was due to re-enter yesterday afternoon. So it probably was a meteor. And a big one.

Interesting.