Traffic camera captures 'spectacular' meteor over Tasmania

The bright flash and trail of a meteor across the night sky was seen across Tasmania on Sunday.A traffic camera from Launceston, in the state's north, captured the event just before 9:30pm The bright light was also seen in southern parts of Tasmania."The object flashed a few times as it was coming down, almost certainly because it was breaking up and the light sort of came and went and left a bit of a trail," said Martin George, the principal astronomer of the Ulverstone Planetarium at Hive Tasmania."This is very typical of an object burning up in the atmosphere, a natural object."People from across the state posted comments on TassieCam's traffic camera video, which was shared on Facebook."Spectacular display