Meteorite Seen in Ireland at the Weekend

Dubh Geannain

Anyone see the Meteroite on Saturday? I was at the Cavan V Meath National league game and had a great view of it.

Thought it was just a really bright firework at first, but the speed and trajectory of it was nothing like any firework I've seen before.

I heard about it on the radio on my way home then. They said people had called the guards when they saw it?? What were the guards going to do?

Dubh Geannain

Nobody? Aw!

Well did anyone else hear about it then?

slade_x

I Wasnt watching the skies on saturday night. Wasnt aware of any meteor.

Although Just for clarification, that must have been a meteor you saw. A meteorite is considered a meteor that survived entry and didnt burn up in the atmosphere, but crashes to earth.

A Meteroid is considered debris (dust or tiny bits of rock) left behind from a comet slowly being disintegrated by the Sun, When the earth passes the debris field / trail of a comet, its gravity pulls in meteoroids, which then become classified as meteors when falling through the atmosphere (burning up and leaving the trail we see) and then if they happen to survive and impact earth they are Meteorites. Meteorites exact composition can then be studied and an approximation mey then be made of its probable origins

Earth will be passing by a region to be the origin of the April Lyrids Meteor shower close to the end of april, so thats the next big thing to watch out for

Dubh Geannain

slade_x wrote:

Earth will be passing by a region to be the origin of the April Lyrids Meteor shower close to the end of april, so thats the next big thing to watch out for

I will thanks. I'll be watching out for those Meteors

SonOfPerdition

hi Dubh Geannain,

you could report the meteor at astronomy ireland's website

http://www.astronomy.ie/fireball.html

I'm not sure what they do with the information, i think they correlate multiple reports to see if they can track where it landed and see if they can find it.

SOP

gonker

My brother in law saw it and contacted Astronomy Ireland they said a few people had contacted them about it. He was around the portarlington area.

Capt'n Midnight

Reports from further away are better as they help triangulate the landing point.

If you have two videos of it, it may be possible to work back to it's original orbit !

Sn@kebite

Dubh Geannain wrote:

Nobody? Aw!

Well did anyone else hear about it then?

I saw one about that time early-mid feb late at night though. About 9-11pm. It was to the North or North-East.
Don't know if that was it.