- SYDNEY (Reuters) - A large
meteor possibly the size of a boulder came close to striking the earth
in South Australia state on Thursday night, local media reported on Friday.
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- Residents of Goolwa and Victor Harbor, south of the state
capital Adelaide, inundated police with reports of a flash of blue light,
smoke trails and two sonic booms.
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- Bryan Boyle of the Anglo-Australian space-watching telescope
in the eastern state of New South Wales told the Australian Broadcasting
Corp that the sightings suggested the object was a meteor which came within
19 miles of the ground.
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- "Occasionally you get a very large size of rock,
the size of a stone up to a boulder, and they only occur one at a time,"
he said.
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- Having worked all night, Boyle was unavailable for comment
early on Friday.
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- Residents of South Australia said they heard a whoosh.
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- "It came straight over the top and left a huge smoke
trail and there was two huge sonic booms afterwards," a man named
Ken told ABC. "It was incredible."
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