NEW DELHI: A loud, mysterious boom that startled a neighbourhood in the northern part of Melbourne is believed to have been caused by a meteorite entering Earth’s atmosphere, reported Independent.
Residents in Doreen, a Melbourne suburb, were surprised by a sudden explosion around 9 pm on Wednesday, and many captured videos of the event. CCTV footage shared by a Doreen resident on social media showed a sudden burst of light, followed by a loud noise resembling an explosion as someone was getting out of a car.
Numerous locals turned to social media to share their experiences and inquire about the “massive explosion,” with some speculating it might be linked to an astronomical occurrence.
“Our whole house shook,” a resident said on X, sharing the CCTV footage that someone posted on a local page, guessing it “maybe a meteorite?”
“Ok, massive explosion wasn’t how I expected tonight to go!”, one user who was from Mernda area said. “What in the world was that?!”
However, the authorities are yet to comment on the origin of the sound.
Science expert Dr Gail Isles from RMIT University suggested that the object might be a meteor, particularly due to the ongoing Perseid meteor shower, expected to reach its peak this weekend. However, she also mentioned the possibility that it could be a fragment from a navigation satellite rocket launched from Russia’s Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
“It’s come back in somewhere between the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere and then it started to appear quite large to our eyes from Melbourne,” Dr Isles told Independent.
According to the news outlet, in August, residents in Victoria saw a ball of light passing over the night sky and heard a loud boom. Australia’s space agency later confirmed that it was a space junk, remnants of a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket which re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere.
Residents in Doreen, a Melbourne suburb, were surprised by a sudden explosion around 9 pm on Wednesday, and many captured videos of the event. CCTV footage shared by a Doreen resident on social media showed a sudden burst of light, followed by a loud noise resembling an explosion as someone was getting out of a car.
Numerous locals turned to social media to share their experiences and inquire about the “massive explosion,” with some speculating it might be linked to an astronomical occurrence.
“Our whole house shook,” a resident said on X, sharing the CCTV footage that someone posted on a local page, guessing it “maybe a meteorite?”
“Ok, massive explosion wasn’t how I expected tonight to go!”, one user who was from Mernda area said. “What in the world was that?!”
However, the authorities are yet to comment on the origin of the sound.
Science expert Dr Gail Isles from RMIT University suggested that the object might be a meteor, particularly due to the ongoing Perseid meteor shower, expected to reach its peak this weekend. However, she also mentioned the possibility that it could be a fragment from a navigation satellite rocket launched from Russia’s Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
“It’s come back in somewhere between the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere and then it started to appear quite large to our eyes from Melbourne,” Dr Isles told Independent.
According to the news outlet, in August, residents in Victoria saw a ball of light passing over the night sky and heard a loud boom. Australia’s space agency later confirmed that it was a space junk, remnants of a Russian Soyuz-2 rocket which re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere.
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