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A trail of green light seen by a number of Tenterfield residents on Tuesday evening was most likely a meteorite according to astronomy experts.

Truck driver Ray McLaren had left Tenterfield at 4pm and was travelling north towards Brisbane when he first spotted the light in the sky around Aratula at approximately 6.15pm.

"At first I thought it was a low flying F1-11, it was parallel to the ground" - Ray McLaren .

Mr McLaren said he soon realised the green coloured light was a meteorite.

"It got larger then broke off. A cascade of green sparks flew off it" - Ray McLaren .

Mr McLaren said he has seen numerous meteorites while driving over the years and said they're nearly always a green colour, but added he'd never seen one as close as the one on Tuesday evening.

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A Proton booster launched a classified satellite Cosmos-2392 into a highly elliptical orbit from Site 81 in Baikonur Cosmodrome, on July 25th 2002.
The payload belonged to the Araks (Arkon) family of spacecraft developed by NPO Lavochkin, designed for military and civilian observations of the Earth surface.

Cosmos-2392
2002-037BJ #28763 SL-12 debris was predicted to re-enter the earths atmosphere on May 15.

TLE Data:

SL-12 DEB
1 28763U 02037BJ 06137.19393285 .03896406 81284-5 19680-2 0 4608
2 28763 063.2897 027.7563 0034040 127.9652 232.4586 16.18686786 48454
1 28763U 02037BJ 06136.88484722 .03313966 80902-5 19347-2 0 4599
2 28763 063.2838 028.9988 0038405 131.0207 229.4367 16.16439233 48403
1 28763U 02037BJ 06136.20356612 .02581347 80317-5 19125-2 0 4583
2 28763 063.2829 031.6832 0043838 131.8521 228.6384 16.12749107 48292
1 28763U 02037BJ 06135.89339586 .02334913 80098-5 18843-2 0 4574
2 28763 063.2760 032.9005 0047269 132.0198 228.5020 16.11223876 48247
1 28763U 02037BJ 06135.14771708 .01927423 79558-5 18695-2 0 4553
2 28763 063.2860 035.8218 0052167 130.2375 229.3052 16.08110299 48127


Incidentally, a Proton-K Auxiliary Motor that was part of the Ekspress AM-22 mission launched from the LC200 at Baikonur Cosmodrome on the 28th December 2003, was predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 15th May @ 14:05 UTC ± 20 hours; however the satellite re-entered on the 13th.

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An unidentified green object streaked across the Queensland sky last night, before landing on a property between Toowoomba and Warwick near the Great Dividing Range.

Farmer Don Vernon lives on the property next to where the object hit the ground, and watched it come in to land.

"I was finished on the farm and driving home, and as I came in the gate I faced this enormous green ball of light with a white centre. It disappeared behind a ridge and I immediately drove out over the ridge without stopping so I was there in a few minutes. When I turned the lights off the car I saw a glowing green ball up on the ridge three-quarters of a mile away and a smaller piece was rolling down the side of the ridge. They were both glowing green" - Don Vernon .

Mr Vernon, who is in his seventies, said the object landed on a steep section of land that was covered in undergrowth and was not easily accessible.

"It was a brilliant light before it landed. A bit like a green sun. I rang a neighbour and asked if he had found superman." - Don Vernon.

Astronomers are uncertain whether the object was a piece of space junk or a meteorite, however Jim Barclay from the Maidenwell Observatory suspects it was part of a satellite or some rocket casing.

"The description that I received from phone calls was that it was of a greeny blue colour which typically suggests something metallic. Over 20,000 pieces of space junk are currently hurtling around the earth and they have to come back down. If this had landed on someone's house though it could have killed someone" - Jim Barclay.



The object, which looked like a comet, was spotted by hundreds of people and airport control towers across south-east Queensland at around 6:30pm last night.

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A police spokeswoman said the suspected meteor was seen travelling east to west in the region from Bribie Island, across the Sunshine and Gold Coasts as far inland as Warwick.

She said a Warwick farmer alerted police about 6.30pm (AEST) of what he thought was a "fire ball" from a plane crashing on his property.
A search of the area found nothing.

Police were then inundated by sightings of a "green ball of light".

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A suspected meteorite has brightened up the night for people across eastern Australia.

A large green ball of light was seen in many parts of Queensland at about 6:30pm AEST.

Peter Hall from the Astronomical Association of Queensland says he has been inundated with calls.
He says it can often be a spectacular sight.

"It depends which chemical the rocks are made out of that determines their colour. They travel at about 50 kilometres a second, you don't often get them that bright. There's 7,000 a day really, but they mightn't be as bright as that you just have to be in the right place to see them - like tonight." - Peter Hall.

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