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Daylight fireball and shock wave over Wellington

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View over Cook Strait from the Wellington suburb of Melrose
Cook Strait seen from Wellington, the area crossed by the July 2022 daylight fireball Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A bright daytime fireball crossed the sky above Cook Strait near Wellington on July 7, 2022. A sonic boom was heard across the southern North Island, GeoNet seismometers recorded the shock wave, and scientists estimated the meteor's energy at about 1,800 tonnes of TNT.

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  1. FirsthandEquivalent to 1,800 tonnes of TNT: what we now know about the meteor that lit up the daytime sky above New ZealandThe Conversation / 2022-07-11
  2. PressWellington meteor shock wave picked up by earthquake sensors1News (TVNZ) / 2022-07-07

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