A rare bright-green meteor flew across the sky early yesterday, surprising early risers around the country. Denise Buckton of Auckland's Blockhouse Bay said she gasped when she saw the meteor from her living room window. "It was lovely to look at. It had the same brightness as a flare." Stardome Observatory spokesman Warren Hurley said the meteor was particularly bright and larger than average, at 20-50cm in diameter. It flew across at 7.07am, providing a rare daytime spectacle. It was first visible at an altitude of about 80km in the north and at about 20km when last seen in the...