Fireball seen over Australian skies was space debris from Russian rocket

By Beau Donelly, Bevan Shields and Esther Han
Updated July 11 2014 - 10:56am, first published 7:30am

The fireball that streaked across the skies of south-eastern Australia on Thursday night was an ejected piece of a Russian rocket used to launch a weather satellite, a leading astronomer says.

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