{"id":737225,"date":"2026-06-15T02:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737225\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T02:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:51:11","slug":"melbourne-meteor-victorian-residents-spot-spectacular-fireball-streaking-across-night-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/737225\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne meteor: Victorian residents spot spectacular fireball streaking across night sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

Incredulous stargazers were stunned to witness a meteor<\/a> streaking across Melbourne\u2019s<\/a> skies last night.<\/p>\n

A spectacular fireball<\/a> was captured flashing over the Victorian capital, a blink-and-you\u2019ll-miss-it moment that caught the eye of residents just before 10pm.<\/p>\n

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The meteor burst into the earth’s atmosphere around 9.50pm yesterday.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n

The meteor \u2013 also known as a fireball or bolide \u2013 was filmed on dashcam footage as one driver passed through Keilor Downs in Melbourne\u2019s north-west about 9.50pm.<\/p>\n

Another lucky resident spotted the meteor as it cast a celestial green glow across the sky in Melbourne\u2019s east.<\/p>\n

Dozens of other Victorians reported seeing the meteor as they drove through Melbourne yesterday evening.<\/p>\n

Swinburne University of Technology astrophysicist Dr Kirsten Banks told nine.com.au the burst of light was \u201cdefinitely a meteor\u201d due to its intense brightness and speed.<\/p>\n

\"One<\/p>\n

One driver in Keilor Downs captured the meteor on dashcam footage.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n

\u201cThe green particularly in the photo tells me that it\u2019s a bright meteor known as a fireball,\u201d Banks said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey often leave a bright-green glow behind them caused by the oxygen atoms in the air interacting with the fireball as it plunges through the atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Banks said the fireball ended in a burst of green light as it was vaporised by the earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n

Witnesses were able to enjoy the astral display because of its size. But it was not large enough to survive the earth\u2019s atmosphere and hit the ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile they are common, catching one with your own eyes comes down to a bit of luck,\u201d Banks added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just miss most of them because the majority of earth\u2019s surface isn\u2019t inhabited by humans.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSome meteors are quick short flashes of light, like in a meteor shower, but bigger ones like this are a bit more sluggish as they enter the atmosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Incredulous stargazers were stunned to witness a meteor streaking across Melbourne\u2019s skies last night. A spectacular fireball was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":737226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":["post-737225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}