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According to eyewitnesses, London has been illuminated by a meteor, with some of them managing to record the dramatic footage.
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According to eyewitnesses, London has been illuminated by a meteor, with some of them managing to record the dramatic footage.
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The fireball is captured in mobile phone footage, taken in northern Tasmania.
The fireball is captured in mobile phone footage, taken in northern Tasmania.
The object flew across the horizon just before 8:30pm (AEST), with videos being shared by excited eyewitnesses in both states.
Adrian from Mole Creek said he saw a vivid light and heard what "sounded like thunder".
"I was outside and it was all nice and dark and suddenly the backyard lit up, like a helicopter going over with a spotlight, quite low," he said.
Dominic McAlinden said he covered his ears, expecting an explosion.
"Night turned to day, and a blue-and-white streak turned red and orange as it burnt up," he said.
Victor was behind the wheel on the Bass Highway in northern Tasmania when "just out of the corner of my eye to the east I saw what appeared to be like a skyrocket shooting down to the ground".
Hazel, in Penguin on the northern Tasmania coast said "it lit the whole town up".
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"So I was putting her down for a nap and I swear it like shook our entire house," Jacqueline Hawtin said. "I was scared."
This is normally a quiet neighborhood, but a loud mysterious boom sent people into a panic.
"I called my husband," Hawtin said. "I called my neighbor."
Hawtin hurried out the door with her young daughter, Harley.
"I looked over here to make sure no one hit the garage or anything," Hawtin said.
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The noise was heard by people in and around Ullapool at about 20:00.
British Geological Survey has ruled out an earthquake and the RAF said it was not a sonic boom caused by one of its jets.
The UK Meteor Network said it was possible the sound was caused by a fireball, but it had received no reports of one from Scotland.
It also said it was unconnected to meteors spotted from England at 20:17 and 20:45.
Reports received by BBC Scotland News online on Tuesday suggested the bang was heard near Ullapool in the north west Highlands, further north at Drumbeg as well as Kiltarlity near Inverness.
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He said he looked up into the sky at around 10.10pm and saw the meteor flying through the sky.
Umit said: "It was amazingI just went out for a cigarette and the next minute I saw it shooting across the sky.
"I'm a bit into astronomy so I was 100% sure it was a meteor, which means it will dissolve before it hits the ground."
"It it the first time I have seen anything like that - it was quite spooky but nice to see as well."
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A car dashcam recorded a fireball streaking across the night sky in North Carolina.
An ABC11 viewer recorded the video Thursday night while driving on Raleigh Road in Wilson toward Airport Boulevard.
In the top right of the screen, a bright light can be seen entering the frame and streaking toward the horizon for about three seconds.
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Asteroid 2010 C01, measuring roughly 400 to 850 feet (120 to 260 meters) in size, will fly by late on September 13, followed by 2000 QW7 at 950 to 2,100 feet (290 to 650 meters) in the early hours of September 14.
"Both of these asteroids are passing at about 14 lunar distances from the Earth, or about 3.5 million miles away, but small asteroids pass by Earth this close all the time,"said NASA planetary defense officer Lindley Johnson.
While most of the meteor appears to have burned up in the atmosphere, a piece as large as a "fist or a soccer ball" likely ended up in the North Sea.
Comment: See also the following previous meteor/fireball events in the Netherlands:
- Bright green meteor fireball captured on camera over Oostkapelle, the Netherlands
- Fragmenting meteor fireball observed over the Netherlands
- Bright meteor fireball fragments over the Netherlands, Belgium and UK
- Fireball seen over the Netherlands and Belgium
Comment: This report is the third 'loud boom' reported in Scotland within the past few weeks.