* Astronomy

 I saw what I thougt to be a meteor on the same friday night between 630pm and 7pm.  It was directly overhead as I drove thru Alice springs and I saw it burn out it left behind a tail of smoke.   It was not heading in the direction of wallace rockhole but beyond Mt John.   Not sure if it was perhaps a second meteor??  or is my sense of direction off.

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Mick Tickner from the Apatula Community Store describes seeing a spectacular light.

"...started off just a light trail as it passed across the sky and flared into a super brilliant gold and white light, and then looked like it was heading towards the Alice Springs area".

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Alice Springs Police received a report about 7pm of something that looked like a flare, but could not find anything. One Darwin stargazer described it as like nothing he had seen before.
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It appeared against the early evening sky like a flare - moments later roofs rattled and verandas shook as it crashed to earth.
Immediately, the telephones of neighbours and friends within a 250-kilometre radius south of Alice Springs began ringing to discuss the meteorite that had flashed through the dusk on Friday night.

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The source of bright lights, an Earth tremor and loud explosion in Central Australia remain a mystery for now.
Northern Territory police say a meteorite landing is a possibility.
Residents at the remote Wallace Rockhole community west of Alice Springs say they heard a loud explosion and felt the ground shake last night.

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