Doreen and Mernda residents describe seeing flash of light followed by ‘massive explosion’ on Wednesday night
The origin of a mysterious loud bang and explosion heard on Wednesday night by Melbourne locals in Doreen and Mernda is yet to be confirmed but experts believe it was likely from a meteor.The origin of a mysterious loud bang and explosion heard on Wednesday night by Melbourne locals in Doreen and Mernda is yet to be confirmed but experts believe it was likely from a meteor.
Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup“Ok, massive explosion wasn’t how I expected tonight to go!”, one user from the Mernda area wrote. “What in the world was that?!”One local said “our whole house shook”. Sharing the CCTV footage posted on a local page, they guessed “maybe a meteorite?”“It would have been a bit of an astroid broke off, travelled through space, hit the Earth’s atmosphere,” Tucker said.
The size of the material determines how far the sonic boom would be heard. “The brightness and the explosion will all be relative to size,” Tucker said. “That kind of gives us the clue this was probably on the smaller side, the fact it wasn’t heard over larger areas.”
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