“The 1978 New South Wales fireball“ 4:44am I think - would’ve been visible from Merewether > Abstract A very large meteor fireball passed through the atmosphe

“The 1978 New South Wales fireball“ 4:44am I think - would’ve been visible from Merewether > Abstract A very large meteor fireball passed through the atmosphere above the east coast of New South Wales early in the morning of 7 April 1978. It was seen at 04.44 AEST (18.44 UT, 6 April) by hundreds of people from the cities of Sydney and Newcastle who deluged the news media with telephoned sightings. The resulting publicity led to the collection of many reports, of which 19 were useful in defining the trajectory and ground track of the fireball. I define here the ground track, which is shown in Fig. 1, and include the locations of the eye-witnesses https://www.nature.com/articles/285464a0 https://www.nature.com/articles/285464a0