The search for an elusive metallic rock which lit up the skies above Otago is well and truly under way. Fireballs Aotearoa estimated the meteorite landed somewhere southeast of Middlemarch and west of Outram, near Dunedin. Pupils at Lee Stream School were excited the rock may be in their backyard. Associate Prof James Scott, of the Otago University department of geology, was confident the meteorite had dropped between 1kg and 10kg of material. University of Otago geology students look for a meteorite which they believe landed somewhere near Lee Stream, and Violet Gray hopes she will find the meteorite, which may have fallen on her family farm.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 03, 2022 04:49 UTC