By Bob Norman.
Residents of the states of South Australia and Victoria Monday night deluged police and media with accounts of a green-coloured fireball hurtling westward through the evening sky.
I can see how this would have scared the crap out of people!
The apparition, which meteorologists later identified as a meteor, came in the wake of spectacular meteor showers earlier in the month, produced as the earth passed through the tail of the comet Tempel-Tuttle, astronomers said.
I've seen a lot of meteors but nothing that was nearly this spectacular.
