Meteor Over Melbourne

[Saturn488]

Parents felt a loud thud just after midnight. Turned out to be a meteor.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-seen-sky.html

I was fast asleep!

[Tropo-Bob (Bob)]

My money is on that it was space junk made by us.

[BeanBear (John)]

Putting the bins out last night and I saw what seemed to be a slow moving meteorite, it moved from ÑE across the sky to SE at about 20 degrees above the horizon in a gentle arc. I am in Adelaide, so it must have been very impressive in Melbourne! It was about 11:27 pm here.

[Nikolas (Nik)]

It turned out to be space junk we heard the boom just after midninght, it sounded like someone slamming the boot of their car right outside our window. I went out to investigate, all quiet no car no nothing just a still cool night

[Hans Tucker (Hans)]

Originally Posted by Tropo-Bob

My money is on that it was space junk made by us.

So .. we can rule out War of the Worlds or a Silent Place style invasion?

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Turns out it was a stage from a Russian Soyuz rocket launching a communications satellite

[JA]

I wonder if any of our SkyCam guys or gals captured it?

Best
JA