Search for Dunedin Meteorite Goes Global
September 5, 2022
If found it would be only the third time in New Zealand that a meteor had been recovered after being seen falling to Earth, he said.
There was a very good chance that the meteor was big enough not to have burned up on its descent.
An image captured at the Beverly-Begg Observatory, in Robin Hood Park, Belleknowes, showed an “absolutely massive fireball”.
“It’s actually so big that the camera didn’t register it as a meteor at first — it thought it was looking at the moon.”