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Bright Asteroid, the size of 3 Football Fields seen streaking through Sky

Experts had confirmed a bright green glow which shot across the sky in WA was likely a asteroid.

Video filmed by locals in Port Hedland, in the state's Pilbara region, showed the sky lit up with the ominous green object.

The ominous glow was also seen by people in parts of Victoria and South Australia

Renee Sayers from Curtain University, which runs the meteor research group,Desert Fireball Network, believed it was only a small asteroid.

Despite being clearly visible, the asteroid was about 5.2 million kilometres away from our planet, 13 times further away than the moon, NASA says, so there was no risk of it hitting the Earth.

NASA say these kinds of occurrences are pretty normal, with an asteroid estimated to be about the same size as 2002 NN4 passing us just last August, and experts at the time called it moderately sized.

The biggest known asteroid that orbits the sun is a whopping 33 kilometres long, Lindley Johnson of NASA's Planetary Defence Coordination Office told CNN last year.

Still, the probability of an asteroid actually hitting Earth is pretty slim -- occurring once every two or three centuries, Mr Johnson said at the time.


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