Mystery of Fireball That Lit Up Australian Sky Is Solved

SYDNEY — The sky lit up over Australia Thursday night as a strange fireball shot across the sky — and Twitter users were abuzz with theories until astronomers were able to give them the answer.

Worried sky-watchers in Victoria and New South Wales called into radio stations and took to social media around 10pm, saying they had seen "a massive shooting star" blazing across the sky.

At first, concerned earthlings thought the bright spark might have been a plane on fire or a massive burning comet:

Arriving home from dinner to see a crazy fire ball in Melbourne's sky's...thought it was a plane going down at first.

Any ideas?

— The Young Mummy (@sophiejaneshaw) July 10, 2014 Read more...

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