Footage captured from Cairns on the east coast to Normanton on the Gulf of Carpentaria shows growing fireball exploding with a loud boom
sky was briefly set alight on Saturday night as a meteor blazed through the atmosphere, exploded, and came to earth with a tremendous boom.
Colour footage captured by Cairns airport showed the sky lighting up green and then yellow as the meteor approached just after 9.22pm on Saturday.Residents in the small town of Croydon, about 500km west of Cairns, said on social media that they had also felt an explosion and heard a huge bang.
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