A large flaming object that lit up Melbourne’s sky overnight is thought to be debris from a Russian rocket used to send a satellite into space.
Victorians captured videos showing a bright fireball travelling across the night sky about midnight on Tuesday.
“This launch was notified and remnants of the rocket were planned to safely re-enter the atmosphere into the ocean off the south-east coast of Tasmania.” The United States’ National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency website shows a “HYDROPAC” navigational warning was issued days ago for space debris tracking over the western South Pacific Ocean.
Associate Professor Alice Gorman, a space archaeologist from Flinders University, said Victorians and Tasmanians saw an identical rocket – which weighs 105 tonnes and is 25 metres long – burning-up in May 2020.
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