Large meteor tonight...

[ViperPict]

Not sure if this is this the right place to post this or not but anyway...

Anyone else seen a large meteor in the sky tonight? I saw it in the Inverness area heading roughly south. Fairly low in the sky and travelling fast (as you might exect!). Front of it white-ish and firey orange tail. About 10 minutes later friends in the south of England saw something similar (the wonders of Facebook!). Also heard that it had been sighted from Norway and Spain too. Likely lucky it never impacted as it must have been of some size!

Edited by ViperPict on Saturday 3rd March 23:14

[Potatoes]

Cool!!!

Missed this, would love to have seen it

[warp9]

Are you sure it was a meteor? ( he says while watching independence day!!)

[ViperPict]

Showed all the characteristics of a large meteor at altitude. UFO was quickly ruled out! In that I think I have identified it!

[nelly1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEZKLBqpTk4

[ViperPict]

Yip, exactly what it looked like! Cheers!

[Potatoes]

nelly1 said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEZKLBqpTk4

That looks brilliant, can't wait to hear more

[marktul]

Yeah it was massive. Took about 90-120 secs to travel across the sky. We had to pull over to watch it pass. Seen from all over the northern UK it seems as well so it must have been a big one.

[ViperPict]

marktul said:

Yeah it was massive. Took about 90-120 secs to travel across the sky. We had to pull over to watch it pass. Seen from all over the northern UK it seems as well so it must have been a big one.

I'm sort of assuming that something of that size would do some damage on impact? It must have been larger that the oft quoted 'grapefruit-sized' bit of rock?

[nelly1]

Another link - http://earthsky.org/space/large-bright-meteor-seen...

[robmlufc]

Heading in the approx direction of Argentina?

[Potatoes]

robmlufc said:

Heading in the approx direction of Argentina?

Syria/Iran/South Korea direction maybe?

[robmlufc]

Potatoes said:

Syria/Iran/South Korea direction maybe?

Best get the factor 50 out just in case!

Just been on Sky News, some great videos.

[mybrainhurts]

Well, bugger me, saw it from my car over Sheffield at 21.45-ish. Thought it was the police helicopter on fire at first sight, then thought someone had launched a model rocket that was flying at about 200 feet. Slightly wrong there...

[AndrewW-G]

H.G.Wells said:

It's crashed into Horsell Common near Woking

[smegmore]

ViperPict said:

I'm sort of assuming that something of that size would do some damage on impact? It must have been larger that the oft quoted 'grapefruit-sized' bit of rock?

Haggis-sized, was heading for Aberdeen but was diverted off course by a well-aimed bottle o' Buckie.

[mybrainhurts]

...good shot, carrot head

[ShayneJ]

AndrewW-G said:

H.G.Wells said:

It's crashed into Horsell Common near Woking

Bring it on greeny

[cptsideways]

I think we may have seen the tail end of this, we saw something meteor like (speed wise) but could'nt make it out for trees in the way. We were driving out to the pub for a meal & stopped to see what it was.

It was'nt that bright & appeared to be dieing off.

Just double checked the timings with my other half, pretty sure thats what we saw

Edited by cptsideways on Sunday 4th March 17:33

[Vieste]

I saw this last night it was bigger than what i have seen before.