Meteorite? Meteoroid? Visitors?

cornbb

Was just listening to Matt Cooper, apparently reports are coming in from all over the country reporting sightings of a fireball streaking across the sky at around 6pm. Dude from Astronomy Ireland reckons it might have landed somewhere in the country. Sounds pretty cool. Anyone see this or were ye all here on boards scratching ye're nether regions?

My name is URL

Seriously... landed?

He's probably just trying to flog telescopes tbh.. he's always at it

Hank_Jones

I'd have to go outside to see that sort of thing.

kraggy

Astronomy Ireland say a meteorite hit the earth's atmosphere at c.5pm and debris sprayed out over Ireland.

AckwelFoley

Who cares... we shall all be dead by December 21th 2012 when the world ends.. This now today is not the time.. we have to wait till then.

joe316

F-cking NASA, phone is on hold

jtsuited

i saw it. it was friggin massive. thought i was hallucinating!!! looked like it landed a few fields away but apparently they all look like that.

Blackhorse Slim

I saw it too, I was driving into Navan from Dublin around 5:50pm. Looked like a firework at first, kinda green, but far too big. Then it seemed to disappear for a split second, the reappeared looking more orange/yellow, continued on and then disappeared. Looked like a meteorite, but huge, I'd guess it burned up fully in the lower atmosphere. Looked very cool though :cool:

MaybeLogic

They're worth a fortune.
Treasure hunt, anyone?

AnonoBoy

That's not landing that's crashing with style.

Biggins

MaybeLogic wrote: »

They're worth a fortune.
Treasure hunt, anyone?

25,000 to 50,000 dollars - count me in!

Space rock worth thousands stirs ownership debate
Todays news: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100203/ap_on_re_us/us_space_rock_dispute

squod

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

cornbb

Very cool!

The Dagda

MaybeLogic wrote: »

They're worth a fortune.
Treasure hunt, anyone?

€/£/$?500 a gramme apparently... :eek:

i'm in...

wylo

imagine it was just a big advertising campaign by meteor, no doubt they will milk it somehow anyway

kerash

Awesome, where is it?

Also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IjgZGhHrYY

mikom

cornbb wrote: »

Meteoroid?

With a name like Samus Aran, I just knew he was Irish...... and now he's finally home

Midnight_EG

So sorry, I was trying to get home for dinner

annetduffy

I saw it too - it was amazing, I was driving past Dalgan Park on the way into Navan and it crossed the sky. Looked like it probably landed somewhere in the fields between johnstown and the Dublin road.

Midnight_EG

mikom wrote: »

With a name like Samus Aran, I just knew he was Irish...... and now he's finally home

Samus is a girl

ian_m

snyper wrote: »

Who cares... we shall all be dead by December 21th 2012 when the world ends.. This now today is not the time.. we have to wait till then.

I'm goin to hold you to that...

mikom

Midnight_EG wrote: »

Samus is a girl

Oh yeah.... yeah.. yeah..... I knew that.

Liam Byrne

AnonoBoy wrote: »

That's not landing that's crashing with style.

That alien pilot is gonna sue Ahern, Cowen & Lenihan; he only came in our direction because he was convinced he'd have a soft landing!

Danbo!

snyper wrote: »

Who cares... we shall all be dead by December 21th 2012 when the world ends.. This now today is not the time.. we have to wait till then.

Never pictured you as a guy with a lisp. Guess ya learn something new every day.

Liam Byrne

wylo wrote: »

imagine it was just a big advertising campaign by meteor, no doubt they will milk it somehow anyway

I could visualise it; yer man from the "togo" ad running around picking up bits of rock all over the country saying "did it cover here ? and here ? and here ?"

If the above, or a variation of it, shows up on TV, I want my creative royalties!

CreepingDeath

I think it's just the air traffic controllers on a work-to-rule policy.

Sligome

i saw it too over sligo, dissappeared over the mountains but it looked pretty close to the ground, so i went in search and im afraid i couldnt find it.

marcsignal

nice 1 for post #12 squod

wonder did mission control in sligo pick it up ??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfz9O_mSY1U

squod

marcsignal wrote: »

nice 1 for post #12 squod

wonder did mission control in sligo pick it up ??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfz9O_mSY1U

They were on a go slow! Check this quote from twitter, is it to be the end of the world?

Littlesapling I don't care if the world is ending because of the #meteorite. I'm finishing my chicken dinner and watching Glee

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.50 (MOA)

saw it as i crossed the border on skraghy comin out of castlederg towards castlefin- donegal for you southerners. was comin up to the petrol station and thought it was one of their lights reflectin on the windshield. got lost then behind clouds and then the forest

sorrywhat

I didnt see a fecking thing. If I didnt see it didnt happen. That youtube clip... well that coulda been anything.

Im not bitter at all!

CrazyRabbit

Speaking of strange things. Some weird little old guy in a hoodie just came up to my front door repeating the phrase "Phone Home...Phone Home!" over and over again. He wouldn't stop, and then he stole my M&M's!

Panda

Wish i saw it, did it look anything like that video though?

Because to me it looks like a rocket launch in reverse...

Blackhorse Slim

The video looks fake to me, at least it wasn't what I saw. It didn't last that long for a start. Although maybe there was more than one?

Turtwig

Blackhorse Slim wrote: »

The video looks fake to me, at least it wasn't what I saw. It didn't last that long for a start. Although maybe there was more than one?

+1 Was thinking the exact same, that is one slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww meteor. Normally the things are over in flash.

Macca3000

Driving out the Oldcastle road from Kells, saw what I thought was a huge green firework. But it was descending and really fast too. Seemed to flash yellow before it disappeared. Over Cavan/Monaghan as I saw it.

wylo

heres one someone made earlier, about a year earlier....

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

Mr Benevolent

A reverse meteor eh? Better call Tony Stark. Or Dr. B.

Abi

snyper wrote: »

Who cares... we shall all be dead by December 21th 2012 when the world ends.. This now today is not the time.. we have to wait till then.

Oh shit really? fuuck. I had the 22nd marked. That would have been a big mistake.. like... LOL

Doctor_Socks

Let's go burn down the observatory so this will never happen again!!

fryup

€500 per gram they say, so lets all head up to co cavan to find it, before some stingy farmer does

Sligome

has it been released where it landed?

fryup

Sligome wrote: »

has it been released where it landed?

well according to RTE > in a field near Crimlin in Co Cavan (where ever the f&ck that is)

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0203/meteorite.html

dylano_k

Publicity Stunt anyone ???

My name is URL

I'll just leave this here

Panda

Vid is over a year old

Heres the original:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uct8V5pPcok

ballsymchugh

My name is URL wrote: »

I'll just leave this here

i thought the same thing. like when north korea launched a missile a few months ago that crashed into the sea a few minutes later. according to their news agency it was a satellite in space broadcasting revolutionary songs of the worker's party.

suuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrre it was!

SoupyNorman

I heard it was Les Dennis trying to get back to where ever it was he came from.

squod

My name is URL wrote: »

I'll just leave this here

France and America use strategic location to launch rockets from, using 'windows' in the atmosphere to get to space. Iran on the other hand uses eh..... a hill, and grandads pick-up. Noice.

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2010-02/52012188.jpg

Gigiwagga

I saw the same thing last week, passed over Cork about 8 in the evening, it was moving pretty fast, burnt out over the city it seemed, though it was probably far away. This was also distinctly green, I thought it was a flare or firework at first but there was no noise, definitely as op described.

rentacrowd

Panda wrote: »

Vid is over a year old

Heres the original:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uct8V5pPcok

They showed a clip on RTE news that they said the got from 'the internet'. Fairly sure it was that one