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    #32
    dougal-maguire
    Registered Users Posts: 191 ✭✭dougal-maguire


    were cavan people,500 a gram,you'll not get within 10 mile of it.:D


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    #33
    wylo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,214 ✭✭✭wylo


    squod wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LOEJbPvlLs
    thats an old video from about a year ago, sorry , check this out

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uct8V5pPcok


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    #34
    testicle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭testicle


    MayoForSam wrote: »
    Possibly landed in Co. Cavan according to David Moore on the news there, going rate of $500 per gramme would be quite tasty for the lucky finder.

    You can expect Cavan folk to shut down the county to all visitors while the mean <SNIP> search for it.

    Mod: This is a family forum, watch your language please!


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    #35
    anluainnru
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭anluainnru


    .50 (MOA) wrote: »
    saw it in the sky on the road from castlederg to castlefin (scraghy) as i was approaching the petrol station on the left (for anyone who knows this bog road) thought it was one of the ligths reflecting on the windscreen. only saw it for about a second, maybe 2. was just bfore 6 o clock

    Thats the same yoke I saw, same direction but I was in North Leitrim. Definitely heading westwards and out towards Donegal Bay. Thought it was a headlight in the windscreen till it was all over the radio about 10 mins later. Can't have been the same one that is supposed to be in Cavan unless it was the little green men out for a spin taking advantage of the confusion..


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    #36
    RonMexico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭RonMexico


    RTE News @ 9 showed that clip tonight. :D Bunch of spanners.


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    #37
    Bodicea
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭Bodicea


    Saw it 6pm ish. Now that could have been 6pm or 6.30. On the beach in enniscrone, it seemed to drop out of the sky from nowhere and heading straight down but with slight trajectory. It could have landed in the Atlantic north of Killala bay or donegal....Defo didnt land south of North mayo anyway..

    Ball the size of a big tennis ball, burning orange red and yellow with 2' tail as this as the ball....

    Amazing, but not as amazing as the aurora borealis right outside my house...a few years ago..now that was breathtaking...


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    #38
    Bodicea
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭Bodicea


    There must have been more than one. cos people in meath say it was heading west...and the one I saw was definitely on a slightly east trajectory (more down than east)...

    Dont think this would have anything to do with the solar activity. Thats the regular 11 year cycle thing...when the solar flares are intense enough to break through the magnetic fields and can disrupt power stations..Either the last one, or the one before blew out power stations in cananda and can affect electronics....

    this is a meteor, dont think they are connected


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    #39
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭squod


    wylo wrote: »
    thats an old video from about a year ago, sorry , check this out

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uct8V5pPcok
    RonMexico wrote: »
    RTE News @ 9 showed that clip tonight. :D Bunch of spanners.

    Damn, now I know why it's called twitter.....


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    #40
    i_inky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21 ✭i_inky


    Anyone know if it is Superman or Optimus Prime?? :)


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    #41
    iceage
    Registered Users Posts: 3,533 ✭✭✭iceage


    Neither, its Harry pothead with his broom on fire.


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    #42
    fryup
    Registered Users Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    according to RTE it has landed near Crimlin Co Cavan

    which begs the question ..is this the most exciting thing that ever happened in Cavan??


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    #43
    refusetolose
    Registered Users Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭refusetolose


    wasn't there an explosion in the sun a few days ago?


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    #44
    duckysauce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭duckysauce


    appartently it hit the iceberg thats melting off shore in donegal :eek:, what are the odds of that ????


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    #45
    darkmaster2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,060 ✭✭✭darkmaster2


    I saw it while travelling towards Limerick from Charleville around 17:55.
    It was travelling west to east near the northern horizon.

    Amazing sight indeed! :D
    Im glad I was in the right place right time for that. I saw one back in late `99 too, but this was far more spectacular!


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    #46
    Bodicea
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭Bodicea


    fryup wrote: »
    according to RTE it has landed near Crimlin Co Cavan

    which begs the question ..is this the most exciting thing that ever happened in Cavan??

    Do they have a word for "exciting" in Cavan.


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    #47
    duckysauce
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,930 ✭✭✭duckysauce


    Bodicea wrote: »
    Do they have a word for "exciting" in Cavan.

    hooooor


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    #48
    Fuzzy Clam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,293 ✭✭✭Fuzzy Clam


    Bodicea wrote: »
    Do they have a word for "exciting" in Cavan.
    Loose sheep?


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    #49
    An Ri rua
    Registered Users Posts: 4,486 ✭✭✭An Ri rua


    iceage wrote: »
    RTE at 9.00pm news had a mention of it.

    I was called in to a tv to look at it and yes, it was on the 9pm bulletin. Just before the weather forecast.


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    #50
    polyfusion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 679 ✭✭✭polyfusion


    i_inky wrote: »
    Anyone know if it is Superman or Optimus Prime?? :)

    I reckon we're becoming a "plaything" of Ming the Merciless. Snow, earthquakes, and now fireballs.


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    #51
    Bodicea
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭Bodicea


    polyfusion wrote: »
    I reckon we're becoming a "plaything" of Ming the Merciless. Snow, earthquakes, and now fireballs.

    Ya forgot potholes...


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    #52
    Popoutman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Popoutman


    Revised numbers for my sighting, now that I can reference against landmarks.

    Time: 17.56

    First seen at about 9 degrees altitude, azimuth 357 (NNW).
    Last seen at about 2 degrees altitude, azimuth 358 (NNW). Lost behind cloud
    About 1 to 2 seconds of visibility

    Tracking from upper left towards lower right, from 11.30 to 5.30 on a clock.

    Backlighting the cirrustratus that was around, and it was as bright as an Iridium flare. Multiple objects in a fairly tight group.

    Projecting out where I would have thought the object would have intersected the horizon:

    horizon-intersection2.jpg

    That trajectory puts any meteorites that may have survived well out in the atlantic, to the northwest of Donegal.


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    #53
    jeannie82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭jeannie82


    anyone see this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma5gX1FAL40
    hmm....!


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    #54
    ultain
    Registered Users Posts: 765 ✭✭✭ultain


    RonMexico wrote: »
    RTE News @ 9 showed that clip tonight. :D Bunch of spanners.
    :):) Dont think anyone got any footage of it..how come there was no warining of this heading our way, cant have been that small?


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    #55
    Popoutman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Popoutman


    ultain wrote: »
    :):) Dont think anyone got any footage of it..how come there was no warining of this heading our way, cant have been that small?


    Depending on the type of object, (nickel-iron/stony/etc) could have been anywhere between suitcase sized to couch sized. A bit too small to have been trackable beforehand. The near-earth surveys going on over the past few years have the aim of finding all of the larger objects that could cross earth's path. The object that fell last night was not already known - as far as I know at the moment.

    I have heard of possible security camera footage of the fireball, but I've to confirm that .


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    #56
    Amadeus.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31 ✭Amadeus.


    Welcome to Cavan, Son of Jor-EL. I am getting a posse together to seek out this meteorite, any of you lads interested? I will divide it up.


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    #57
    Savage Cabbage
    Registered Users Posts: 57 ✭✭Savage Cabbage


    wow. absolutely brilliant. has anyone seen any photo images of it yet? Also have they recovered it from where it landed? Really wish I saw that


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    #58
    Ally Dick
    Registered Users Posts: 12,685 ✭✭✭✭Ally Dick


    Funny, I always thought there was no Meteor coverage around Cavan...


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    #59
    Wavey
    Registered Users Posts: 861 ✭✭✭Wavey


    Ally Dick wrote: »
    Funny, I always thought there was no Meteor coverage around Cavan...

    LOL
    :D


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    #60
    Wavey
    Registered Users Posts: 861 ✭✭✭Wavey


    Anybody know any satellite feed website that may have caught this?


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    #61
    .50 (MOA)
    Registered Users Posts: 170 ✭✭.50 (MOA)


    .50 (MOA) wrote: »
    saw it in the sky on the road from castlederg to castlefin (scraghy) as i was approaching the petrol station on the left (for anyone who knows this bog road) thought it was one of the ligths reflecting on the windscreen. only saw it for about a second, maybe 2. was just bfore 6 o clock


    checked the direction using a map. it was heading east from what i could tell from the map. only other possible direction is north- east a tad.


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