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Title: Did I just see a meteorite?
Post by: Nickbat on 07 March 2011, 22:18:59
I heard a police chopper hanging about close by just now and I opened the front door to see where it was and then witnessed a glowing green light moving  quickly down to the ground. It faded to nothing, so I reckon it was a small fragment of space dust or similar. It wasn't high in the sky like a "shooting star" which grazes the atmosphere, but was definitely headed on an earthward trajectory; in fact I thought it was a flare when I first noticed it.

There you go. My excitement for the evening!  :y 
Title: Re: Did I just see a meteorite?
Post by: PhilRich on 07 March 2011, 22:38:08
It'll have been a leftover from someones 'Brocks Benefit' Nick, either that or someone fired a dud SAM at the FuzzBudgie  ;D
Title: Re: Did I just see a meteorite?
Post by: miked on 07 March 2011, 22:48:32
At 7:23 we saw the International Space Station and the Space shuttle Challenger traverse from West /South West to the South.

Two small white spots moving across the sky  :-/
Title: Re: Did I just see a meteorite?
Post by: Nickbat on 07 March 2011, 22:50:54
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At 7:23 we saw the International Space Station and the Space shuttle Challenger traverse from West /South West to the South.

Two small white spots moving across the sky  :-/

Yep, Mike, I got an email alerting me to that from Spaceweather.com but sadly I didn't read it until 9.30.  :'(
Title: Re: Did I just see a meteorite?
Post by: miked on 07 March 2011, 23:21:31
Well, Myself, the wife and our three year old were all stood outside the front of our house in coats, hats, gloves, looking skywards!

I saw them first , two small white spots moving rather quickly.  Wife was a little disappointed, daughter wanter to play on her slide and climbing frame (got very upset when we went back inside).  I still found it very impressive when considering what you were looking at.
Title: Re: Did I just see a meteorite?
Post by: Vamps on 07 March 2011, 23:59:10
I do not know, I was not there, I did not see one personally..... ::) ::) ::)
Title: Re: Did I just see a meteorite?
Post by: Nickbat on 08 March 2011, 00:01:43
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I do not know, I was not there, I did not see one personally..... ::) ::) ::)

That settles it, then.  ::)
Title: Re: Did I just see a meteorite?
Post by: Banjax on 08 March 2011, 07:01:02
sounds like a meteorite Nick, the green light may be traces of copper on the surface of it burning up through the atmosphere  :y

or a ufo  ;)
Title: Re: Did I just see a meteorite?
Post by: alfie on 08 March 2011, 07:20:26
Hi Nickbat, was that about 22.10,  I was just letting the dog out,looked up and this Bright star like thing was shooting at about 2000 mph north to south.









Title: Re: Did I just see a meteorite?
Post by: Banjax on 08 March 2011, 07:30:37
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Hi Nickbat, was that about 22.10,  I was just letting the dog out,looked up and this Bright star like thing was shooting at about 2000 mph north to south.










that sounds like a meteor or shooting star  :y
Title: Re: Did I just see a meteorite?
Post by: Kevin Wood on 08 March 2011, 11:00:23
Did wonder if it was Discovery until I checked. Undocked from the ISS yesterday but not due back until tomorrow.

I saw one of the Shuttle launches a couple of years back. Was camping and went out for a pee at some ungodly hour in the morning. As I walked back across the camp site I saw a bright object climb up from the Western horizon, break into two, and continue up until almost overhead.

Wondered what it was and when I got back home found a youtube video of exactly what I'd seen, from the same time, taken by a group of astronomers. It was the launch of STS-128.

Kevin
Title: Re: Did I just see a meteorite?
Post by: Nickbat on 08 March 2011, 13:02:05
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Hi Nickbat, was that about 22.10,  I was just letting the dog out,looked up and this Bright star like thing was shooting at about 2000 mph north to south.


Indeed, it was around about quarter-past ten. Can't be anymore precise than that with the time. :y
Title: Re: Did I just see a meteorite?
Post by: jyr001 on 08 March 2011, 18:15:08
According to the sizzling soaraway Sun "a lorry sized asteroid skimmed past Earth yesterday at less than a third of the distance of the moon". If you can believe the Sun (about anything) maybe that is what it was.