NICOLETTA LANESE, LIVE SCIENCE
30 DECEMBER 2020
Space rocks crash to Earth carrying compounds that were formed billions of years ago. Spaceships perform fancy flips in the air but explode when they touch back down too quickly. And sometimes, iguanas fall from trees and land belly-up, frozen on the ground.
Here s a list of seven intriguing objects - and a few reptiles - that made headlines for falling from the sky.
Exploding, green fireball over the Tasman Sea
(CSIRO)
Researchers captured an incredible video when a bright, green meteor zipped over the southern coast of Tasmania, Australia - though a bit unfortunately, the video is in black-and-white.