Mysterious Green Fireball Spotted Above Remote Australian Outback

newsweek ^ | On 6/15/20 at 6:41 AM EDT | Aristos Georgiou

[Rastus]

It wasn’t very bright, but definitely burning and leaving a black smoke trail that dissipated quickly.

Sounds like Obama getting a trebuchet ride.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[cpdiii]

Circa 1976 I was driving out to a well in North Dakota late at night. A fireball (meteor) entered the atmosphere. I was in the badlands and it was most magnificent. The fireball lighted the hills for a few seconds like it was daylight. I was privileged to see this rare sight.

[Telepathic Intruder]

That I would definitely like to see.

[RJS1950]

Nickle core meteorite.

[DannyTN]

Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh CHOOOO!

[jonrick46]

Powdered zinc, ammonium nitrate and ammonium chloride combined will violently burn with a green flame when water is added to it. Put this on a rocket, have a small water container that floods the zinc mixture when a seal is broken at the appropriate time and voila!

[Grammy]

"Oh I saw a bright one in full daylight in the 1960’s, red, green and yellow with a smoke trail. Like many in the Northeast, we jumped in the family car to follow it, thinking it came down within a few miles. I believe it actually exploded over Alaska.

When I was a kid at about 5 pm all the neighborhood kids saw a fireball. I ran into the house and told my mom a plane had crashed! We were in central Ohio. Turns out the meteor exploded somewhere in Indiana and had been seen in 5 states!

[Candor7]

Seriously strange things happen in Alice springs>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

This one was just a skimmer, or maybe a fly by pass .

“The reason why this is really interesting and the jury is out with our scientists, is that earlier this year we shared a paper of a grazing fireball that actually entered our atmosphere, burned 1,300 kilometers [800 miles] across the Australian sky and kicked back out into interstellar space, and that’s what this looked like as well,” Sayers said.

[Fred Nerks]

It didn’t burn up in the atmosphere or hit the ground? It’s still out there somewhere...?

[jmacusa]

They were not NOT licking toads.

[dljordan]

Aw look! It’s Space Barbie come to slay the aliens.

[CopperTop]

Yeah, saw one years ago.. d;^)

[SunkenCiv]

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• Surprising Recent Discoveries of Three Large Near-Earth Objects [02/17/2014]

[SunkenCiv]

[snip] cyanogen (CN)2 and diatomic carbon (C2) both glow characteristically green [/snip]
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/actually-if-youre-a-comet-it-is-easy-being-green

[SunkenCiv]

Spectacular fireball blazes across the night sky | ABC News

[Candor7]

It didn’t burn up in the atmosphere or hit the ground? It’s still out there somewhere...?>>

Apparently its a skipper. If it had stayed in atmosphere it would have exploded.

[elteemike]

Chondrities are also known to contain large amounts of CuZn...Copper gives off a blue green glow when burned...

[SunkenCiv]

That’s due to the presence of and reaction with oxygen.

[elteemike]

Well, yes; and thank you...When I mentioned “burning” (another simpler term meaning rapid oxidation), I sorta covered that...

I anneal a lot of copper in a gas forge with a reducing atmosphere (gas rich), and still notice a blue green flame...I suppose it might be copper dust residue on cut pieces burning off...

Regardless, a beautiful fireball!