On the night of May 21, a fireball exploded in the sky over Queensland in Australia with a terrifying roar.. According to The Guardian, it was a meteor that burned up in the planet's atmosphere..

The event was captured by smartphones and CCTV cameras. Videos shared by eyewitnesses on social media show a fireball that rapidly grew in size, followed by a flash of blue and green.. Cairns airport cameras captured sky turning green and then yellow.

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Residents of the city of Croydon, which is located 500 kilometers from Cairns, said on social networks that they felt a powerful blow and heard a loud explosion..

Australian National University astrophysicist Brad Tucker stated that the diameter of the meteor was approximately 0.5-1 meter, it was moving at a speed of 150 thousand kilometers per hour.

Most meteors are rocky chondrites, but the greenish color before the explosion was caused by iron and nickel being heated after the meteor began to break apart.. It is likely that after its fall, a crater was unlikely to form, since the stone broke into pieces before it reached the surface of the Earth..

Tucker also noted that despite the strong glow as it traveled through the atmosphere, most of the meteor was still frozen by the time it landed.. The sound that the locals heard was due to the fact that the meteor exploded in the air.. According to the scientist, if such an explosion occurs over houses, it can cause damage to them..

Recall that on the evening of April 19, residents of Kyiv observed a bright flash in the sky. The International Meteor Organization said that it was the result of a meteor fall.