A meteorite produced a bright fireball visible across Victoria just before 8pm on August 10 and appeared on CCTV from Bendigo to Ballarat and Melbourne's outer west. Monash University researchers tracked the meteorite's collision to a 1km by 3km area of farmland near Dunolly and believe the rock was large enough to hit the ground intact. The meteorite is estimated to weigh 1–3 kg and could be about 4.5 billion years old, preserving early solar system material. Teams conducted line searches across four properties and searched paddocks for a week while residents shared footage and eyewitness reports on social media.
From a distance, animal poo looks a lot like a meteorite, especially when it's fresh.
It's dark, and shiny, and round. Cow poos are a little bit easier to tell apart, but when it comes to horses, it's a challenge.
It has the story of our solar system recorded in it... We're a very small planet in our solar system. Most of our solar system is a vacuum; there's a lot of space between planets,
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