(meteorobs) Fireball for Western Australia

[GeoZay at aol.com]

>>Excellent point; ten seconds.  I saw it on "Sunday Morning"  also, and 
unless the film had been slowed (which I doubt), this thing was moving  too slowly 
to be a meteor.  It was probably something orbital that was  re-entering.  
Something LARGE.<<

 
Ten seconds? that would be too short for something orbital. On the other  
hand, a ten second meteor, particularly that of a sporadic of asteroidal origin  
is not unusual. The 1972 great fireball over montana and wyoming lasted about  
106 seconds.
George Zay