WATCH: Meteorite lights up night sky across WA

Perth Now

4 days ago

A cosmic spectacle illuminated the night sky across WA on Wednesday night.
A meteorite travelled through the atmosphere just after 9.30pm.
Matt Woods, from the Perth Observatory, said the meteor was travelling anywhere between 16 to 50km per second.
WATCH THE METEORITE VISION IN THE PLAYER ABOVE
'From the footage I have seen its green which means it was a stony iron meteorite,' he said.
'It doesn't look like it survived, and so it burnt up in our atmosphere . . . you would have seen a number of little explosions at the end and that was it breaking up and disintegrating.' Matt Woods, from the Perth Observatory, said the meteor was travelling anywhere between 16 to 50km per second. Credit: Calvin Borowski / Calvin Borowski
Curious sky gazers eager to know what they had seen took to Facebook just after 9.30pm to talk about the bright light they saw zoom through the sky.
West Aussies shared their footage and experiences from different vantage points across the State as they watched on in awe of the spectacular sight.
'Big green meteor with a firey front just lit up the sky over Halls Head Anyone else see it?' one social media user wrote.
'We saw it. It was beautiful,' someone else commented.
'Saw the flash in Serpentine,' another wrote.
Just last month, West Aussie witnessed something that resembled a fireball zooming across Perth.
The observatory suggested the stunning event was likely space junk, which is debris from rockets or satellites that are no longer orbiting.
'Unfortunately, the fireball seen over Perth a few moments ago isn't Optus Prime or Bumblebee, it does look like space junk.'