NZ Meteor

I've just got a message, via the family grapevine from my cousin (via my auntie and my dad), of a meteor hitting a farm near Christchurch in New Zealand. My cousin, along with plenty of other people from Ashburton to Wellington and Wairarapa reported a loud sonic boom and a large fireball. The New Zealand Herald has plenty of eyewitness reports (should that be earwitness?).

Strangely, the Bad Astronomer just had a post about a meteor over Western Australia last December.

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Posted in astro blog by Stuart on Tuesday 12th Sep 2006 (16:41 BST) | 1 Comment | Permalink

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Posted by telescope on Friday 15th Sep 2006 (07:54 UTC)

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