Fireball seen!

muincav

testicle wrote: »

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

You picked a great name because you are a proper boll*^ks!

woolymammoth

Fuzzy Clam wrote: »

Loose sheep?

Loose Chickens!

theg81der

Saw it while travelling northbound towards carrickmacross from ardee. Fell around cavan monaghan border. Trajectory very vertical.

fryup

well, have they found it yet??

Ken_Is_Here

Here's an infrared image from the 3rd at 18:00. Would it have been visible then?

Popoutman

I've just received an email from Astronomy.ie:

*Location of Fireball Announced*

*Astronomy Ireland Experts Kick Off 'Big Search' for Wednesday's Huge
Fireball*

Tonight, in Dublin, at Astronomy Ireland's Monthly Public Lecture the first
hint of the hugely anticipated location of last Wednesday's sensational
fireball was announced.

Experts at Astronomy Ireland have predicted that the fireball, which
likely derived from leftover debris which floats around in space,
landed* *somewhere
in County Donegal.

Further reports will refine the exact location of the landing, and Astronomy
Ireland are urging the general public to continue to submit 'Fireball
Reports' via the Astronomy Ireland website - www.astronomy.ie. Information
on this spectacular event will be continually released via the Friends of
Astronomy Ireland email list over the coming weeks and months.

*"We suspect only one in a hundred people who saw the fireball have actually
reported it,"* said David Moore, Chairman of Astronomy Ireland. *"This makes
triangulating the landing site very difficult, indeed. We want everyone who
saw the fireball to report it via our website as soon as possible!"*

I have my doubts that it did traverse Donegal based on the path I saw it take, but I'm very open to correction.

hellboy99

Popoutman wrote: »

I've just received an email from Astronomy.ie:

*Location of Fireball Announced*

*Astronomy Ireland Experts Kick Off 'Big Search' for Wednesday's Huge
Fireball*

Tonight, in Dublin, at Astronomy Ireland's Monthly Public Lecture the first
hint of the hugely anticipated location of last Wednesday's sensational
fireball was announced.

Experts at Astronomy Ireland have predicted that the fireball, which
likely derived from leftover debris which floats around in space,
landed* *somewhere
in County Donegal.

Further reports will refine the exact location of the landing, and Astronomy
Ireland are urging the general public to continue to submit 'Fireball
Reports' via the Astronomy Ireland website - www.astronomy.ie. Information
on this spectacular event will be continually released via the Friends of
Astronomy Ireland email list over the coming weeks and months.

*"We suspect only one in a hundred people who saw the fireball have actually
reported it,"* said David Moore, Chairman of Astronomy Ireland. *"This makes
triangulating the landing site very difficult, indeed. We want everyone who
saw the fireball to report it via our website as soon as possible!"*

I have my doubts that it did traverse Donegal based on the path I saw it take, but I'm very open to correction.

It's a ploy to get all us meteor hunters away from Cavan so David Moore can find it for himself

ultain

Could have landed on the side of mountain or in lake..can we expect to see more of these over the next few years? I don't think the Inca's where talking about the end of the world..just that it's going to get kinda busy sky wise.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqCh-hKjFic

happyoutscan

ultain wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4kgfHrBm-0

This is footage from South Africa, not Ireland.

Organised4You

Myself and my husband saw a fireball in the sky at 11:55pm last night. We reported it to Astronomy Ireland but they said it was a chinese lantern; helicopter or satellite. It was red/yellow/orange and we had a very clear view of it - it most certainly wasn't a helicopter or any other flying object that we know of! It moved in a north easterly direction heading towards Meath.