{"id":74221,"date":"2025-08-11T08:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/74221\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T08:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:27:08","slug":"my-house-and-the-earth-shook-visibly-blazing-meteor-thrills-residents-in-central-victoria-victoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/74221\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My house and the earth shook visibly\u2019: blazing meteor thrills residents in central Victoria | Victoria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Residents in central Victoria<\/a> have reported seeing a large meteor streaking across the night sky on Sunday, with some people describing an extremely bright fireball and a loud sound as the object passed overhead.<\/p>\n

Dozens of clips and witness accounts were shared in the Facebook group Australian Meteor Reports.<\/p>\n

Saskia Reus-Smit, from Fryerstown, posted to the group that they had seen the meteor pass \u201cdirectly over my head, very low, seemed lower than a plane \u2026 close enough to see burning definition, like a volcanic rock burning orange, shades of black rock formation shadows clearly visible\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Soon after, Reus-Smit experienced \u201ca massive boom, sounded more like impact than sonic boom but could have been either. My house and the earth shook visibly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Terrence Dale, who lives in Eildon, wrote on Facebook he saw the meteor at 7.35pm.<\/p>\n

\u201cLow on the horizon and it was blue and red in colour and was extremely long in shape, it dropped from my view due to mountain range near where we live,\u201d Dale wrote.<\/p>\n

\"MeteorMeteor captured on CCTV in south-west Victoria \u2013 video<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew what it was as I\u2019ve been reading a lot on social media of a meteor shower happening soon, I just happened to be outside on a very clear night and was looking in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dale said he was left awestruck by the display.<\/p>\n

The meteor was also captured by the Pendergast Hut cam on Mt Buller, at 7.40pm.<\/p>\n

Astrophysicist and astronomer Prof Jonti Horner, from the University of Southern Queensland, confirmed it was a meteor that had lit up the sky.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was definitely a meteor. Because of how bright it was, we describe it as a \u2018fireball\u2019 \u2013 which just means a meteor that was brighter in the sky than the planet Venus appears,\u201d Horner said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom how bright it was and the fact there was a widely heard sonic boom-rumble a few minutes after it appeared, it seems likely that fragments could have made it to the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He said to his knowledge nothing has been found yet \u2013 though this was not surprising, as meteorites are hard to find.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou pretty much need to be an expert to know what you\u2019re seeing is actually what you\u2019re hoping to see,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A screenshot from a camera on Mt Buller shows the meteor as it flew overhead. Photograph: Mt Buller<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you can get footage from multiple angles and locations then you can triangulate a path through the atmosphere to work out how quickly [the meteor] was moving, what direction it was moving, and therefore where any fragments could have landed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Horner said the Australian Desert Fireball Network, operated out of Curtin University, has a network of cameras to capture events like this.<\/p>\n

He estimated Australia would experience a meteor event like what occurred on Sunday night between five to ten times each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents in central Victoria have reported seeing a large meteor streaking across the night sky on Sunday, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-74221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}