{"id":802145,"date":"2026-05-12T06:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=802145"},"modified":"2026-05-12T06:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T11:25:28","slug":"very-bright-fireball-streaks-across-the-skies-of-eastern-tasmania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=802145","title":{"rendered":"Very bright fireball streaks across the skies of eastern Tasmania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A very bright fireball streaked across the skies of eastern Tasmania, from Launceston to Arthur\u2019s Lake, at approximately 21:28 LT on Sunday, May 10.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe object flashed a few times as it was coming down, almost certainly because it was breaking up, and the light sort of came and went and left a bit of a trail,\u201d Martin George, principal astronomer at the Ulverstone Planetarium in Hobart, Tasmania, told RNZ.<\/p>\n<p>Astrophysicist Brittany Trubody said the meteor was \u201cquite likely a remnant from the recent Eta Aquariids meteor shower, produced by debris from Halley\u2019s Comet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was captured by a traffic camera operated by TessieCams in Launceston and was visible across Tasmania, including the southern regions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo sonic boom heard. These cameras generally point east,\u201d TessieCams operators said.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe data-lazyloaded=\"1\" data-litespeed-src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F2427455871092532%2F&amp;width=880&amp;show_text=false&amp;height=413&amp;appId\" width=\"880\" height=\"413\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" class=\"perfmatters-lazy\" data-src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Multiple people reported seeing the fireball from different regions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh man!! THAT was the \u201clightning flash\u201d I saw on my way to my usual aurora dark sky location south of Burnie!!\u201d commented Dana Scott under TessiCams\u2019 post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSaw it in Kingston; it was huge and so bright and so fast. Sadly, I was driving, so I couldn\u2019t get a photo or video,\u201d said another user, Nardia Carr.<\/p>\n<p>The fireball was visible for approximately 4 seconds and glowed white, with some recordings showing a greenish hue toward the end. Fragmentation was also observed during the event.<\/p>\n<p>According to George, while the fireball may have been very bright, it was likely very small and broke apart at an altitude of around 30 km (19 miles).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the kind of size of object that I would estimate it to be based on the video\u2026 Unfortunately, I missed it myself, but it would have been a spectacular sight,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> Tasmanians who saw meteor lighting up the sky last night \u2018very lucky\u2019, astronomer says \u2013 RNZ \u2013 May 11, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/watchers.news\/2026\/05\/12\/very-bright-fireball-streaks-across-the-skies-of-eastern-tasmania\/?rand=772151\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very bright fireball streaked across the skies of eastern Tasmania, from Launceston to Arthur\u2019s Lake, at approximately 21:28 LT on Sunday, May 10. \u201cThe object flashed a few times&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":802146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-802145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/802146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}