Panic as meteor 原因（となる）s blue and purple light to illuminate the sky over Australia before the ground 'rumbles like an 地震'

  • A meteor にわか雨 lit up the night sky across parts of the Northern 領土?
  • CCTV cameras 選ぶd up the moment the meteor burst into the atmosphere
  • NT Police 株d （映画の）フィート数 from two 場所s showing the amazing moment?

By Adam Mccleery For Daily Mail Australia

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Panic 爆発するd in the Northern 領土 outback after a meteor にわか雨 原因（となる）d a flash of light that lit up the night sky and a loud noise which which shook windows.?

The にわか雨 over the towns of Alice Springs and Tennant Creek was caught on camera after it took place just after midnight on Monday.?

NT Police 義務 Superintendent James O'Brien said officers received a phone call from a Charles Creek （軍の）野営地，陣営 居住（者） about a 'magnificent, brilliant white light that had lit up Alice Springs like daylight'.

Police CCTV 見通し 記録，記録的な／記録するd the meteor にわか雨 travelling across the sky in both Alice Springs and more than 500 kilometres north in Tennant Creek.?

Panic erupted in the Northern Territory outback after a meteor shower caused a flash of light that lit up the night sky and a loud noise which which shook windows

Panic 爆発するd in the Northern 領土 outback after a meteor にわか雨 原因（となる）d a flash of light that lit up the night sky and a loud noise which which shook windows?

There were also 報告（する）／憶測s of noise like 雷鳴, rumbling and windows shaking.

Many pieces of 激しく揺する - about 200 tonnes - from space 攻撃する，衝突する Earth every day but most were too small to be noticed, Australian 国家の University astrophysicist Brad Tucker said.

The ones that are noticed such as Monday morning's event were also small, but in this 事例／患者 large enough to be seen 燃やすing brightly and colourfully before disappearing into the outback.?

Dr Tucker, from the Australian 国家の University, told Daily Mail Australia it was an impressive meteor にわか雨.

'The green-blue colour 示すs it had アイロンをかける, most do, it probably wasn't that big maybe three to five metres,' he said.?

He said the sonic にわか景気 is 関係のある to the size but also the 速度(を上げる） of the meteor.??

'The 普通の／平均（する） 狙撃 星／主役にする is only about the size of a 穀物 of sand or a small pebble. These 激しく揺するs are not as big as we 普通は think,' he said.?

'They don't have to be big to be very 有望な, so I would say this one is still on the smaller size, no more than a few metres.'??

Some pundits were （人命などを）奪う，主張するing that the meteor was a result of the earth 近づくing the tail of Halley's 惑星 however Dr Tucker 反駁するd this.

'There was a meteor にわか雨 called the Eta Aquarids. However that 頂点（に達する）d last week and those fragments are small - the size of small pebbles,' he said.

'This was much larger and would not be from Halley's 惑星 - this would have been a fragment of an asteroid.'??

Dr Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist from the Australian National University told Daily Mail Australia it was an impr essive meteor

Dr Brad Tucker, an astrophysicist from the Australian 国家の University told Daily Mail Australia it was an impressive meteor?

Supt O'Brien told ABC News?that officers were at first 懐疑的な of the 報告（する）／憶測s and decided to phone around and see what they could find out.?

'But then we started looking around our CCTV and the one in Tennant Creek sees this beautiful purple light coming 負かす／撃墜する,' he said.

'And the ones in Alice Springs 基本的に show Alice Springs showing up like daylight. It was やめる magnificent.'??

NT Police then decided to upload the CCTV （映画の）フィート数 they 設立する of the 出来事/事件.??

居住（者）s were quick to take to social マスコミ after 証言，証人／目撃するing the にわか雨.?

'I was awake and heard this 攻撃する，衝突する the atmosphere, the sound it made, two 急速な／放蕩な にわか景気s, will stay with me for a long time ..... EPIC,' one thrilled 居住（者） wrote.?

'Made a hell of a ゆすり as it was 飛行機で行くing over,' another 追加するd.

Astrophysicist Dr Brad Tucker said the meteor was not part of the recent Eta Aquarids?meteor shower which peaked last week (pictured)

Astrophysicist Dr Brad Tucker said the meteor was not part of the 最近の Eta Aquarids?meteor にわか雨 which 頂点（に達する）d last week (pictured)?

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