Confused mahooosive meteortypethingy!

[Calaen]

So I went over to the coast tonight Whitley Bay, to see the Olympic laser beam doing its thing.

Anyway while enjoying fish and chips at about 22:00 the sky suddenly splits, from the sea, it looked like a rockets rising through the sky, but it wasn't going up at all it was coming towards us, it split right over our heafs and carried on moving, the afterburn was unbelievable. I've seen shooting stars before but this was so big it looked like a jumbo jet going over head, minus the noise.

So now I'm trawling the net to see if anyone caught it on video!

If it was a meteor it must have been a fucking beast!

 

[Gray]

People seen it over the northwest too, Liverpool area heading south it must have been. I missed it though :'(

Was mentioned at about 10pm/10:30

 

[ileks]

rubbish video of it:


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

 

[Scouse]

This, I'm guessing. Though I'd appreciate a more detailed description Calaen.

How big. How bright (with comparisons). How did you feel?

 

[Gray]

Spoiler

Someone managed to snap it it seems

 

[old.Tohtori]

Meteor....or aliens?

 

[Moriath]

sorry was just wij fapping tbh

 

[Calaen]

This, I'm guessing. Though I'd appreciate a more detailed description Calaen.

How big. How bright (with comparisons). How did you feel?

Honestly it was rather scary, it was like a movie scene, one person spotted it and then there was just a deathly silence, as I said I've seen shooting stars loads, and this just made me feel insignificant. It felt so close, and I was saying to the guys we were out with that it must have been huge to penetrate our atmosphere for that period of time an maintain the constant flare. The closet thing i can relate it to, would be from Armageddon when the meteors hit at the start in the streets.

As for height it really looked like it was no higher than a plane, but it was so big in size and the flames chasing after it were bright orange, obviously it just looked closer than it was, which in hindsight probably says alot about the size of the thing!

 

[old.user4556]

Wow i wish i'd seen this, meteors are very dramatic indeed. Remember this?


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dan3wM3rns&feature=related

 

[Calaen]

That's exactly what it was like flying over head, colour and everything, the only difference was this one didn't seem to be going down at all!

 

[Zenith.UK]

Go read "Hammer of God" by Arthur C.Clarke if you want a good asteroid/meteor story.
The pics and vids of the meteor last night look interesting, and Calaen's account makes it sound like it was a grazer. Comes in the atmosphere, burns up a bit and leaves again.

 

[old.Tohtori]

Was thinking the same thing, a cocktease of the universe as you would

 

[rynnor]

That's exactly what it was like flying over head, colour and everything, the only difference was this one didn't seem to be going down at all!

Grats on seeing it btw - not many this large come through often

Not sure if it came down or just grazed the atmosphere - proper fireball though!

 

[Calaen]

Yeah trying to explain to my 4 year old daughter that she might never see anything that that in person again was wasted! She prefered to think it was space aliens!

 

[TdC]

I saw one on the west coast of Australia. Went almost directly overhead, and vanished over the horizon in to the Indian Ocean I guess. It wasn't flaming like that one, more a dark smoke. Also, it made a noise like a newspaper tearing. I'll never forget that noise...awesome to say the least 0o

 

[ECA]

Was out for a walk and saw this, it was extremely impressive, not just a random shooting star trail.

 

[rynnor]

Was out for a walk and saw this, it was extremely impressive, not just a random shooting star trail.

Your right - the usual shooting stars are tiny - this must have been considerably larger. They actually show up on radar plots so I'm sure somebody knows where it went down but they may be quietly scouring the area - these things are worth a ton!

 

[Calaen]

Your right - the usual shooting stars are tiny - this must have been considerably larger. They actually show up on radar plots so I'm sure somebody knows where it went down but they may be quietly scouring the area - these things are worth a ton!

I'm sure I read somewhere that they think it might have dropped into the north sea!