Fireball that lit up Pilbara sky 'something special', but scientists not exactly sure what
ABCScientists say the "jury is still out" about a mysterious green glow that travelled across the sky in the remote West Australian outback early this morning. Key points: Many people videoed the bright green object streaking across the sky in WA's remote Pilbara region It was spotted by people in three states travelling over a wide distance, from at least Cape Lambert to Hope Downs Scientists say the green-blue colour indicates it was likely a natural object containing iron Night workers on remote sites from Cape Lambert to Hope Downs in the Pilbara saw the bright light just before 1:00am, and many captured it on video. "The reason why this is really interesting and the jury is out with our scientists, is that earlier this year we shared a paper of a grazing fireball that actually entered our atmosphere, burned 1,300km across the Australian sky and kicked back out into interstellar space, and that's what this looked like as well. "Every single day, our Earth's atmosphere is hit by about 100 tonnes of natural space debris," he said.
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