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| Spectacular Exploding Meteor Recorded over Southern Coast of Tasmania, Australia
Jackson Ryan cnet.com An enormous, spectacular fireball blazing a trail across the sky off the southern coast of Tasmania, Australia, has been captured on film. A livestream camera fitted to the research vessel Investigator, operated by Australia's national science agency CSIRO, spotted the fireball at 9:21 p.m. local time on Nov. 18. The vessel is designed to "look" down, performing mapping of the seafloor and conducting oceanographic studies about 60 miles south of Australia, but it was the meteor that flew by overhead that excited the crew on Wednesday. "What we saw on reviewing the livestream footage astounded us, the size and brightness of the meteor was incredible," John Hooper, voyage manager onboard the vessel, said in a press release. The local media was "flooded with reports of sightings," but no additional photos or vision have turned up at this stage, according to CSIRO. The International Meteor Organization, which tracks meteors, doesn't contain any reports of the