Bright meteorite over Dublin just now!

Firewalkwithme

Just took the dog out for a crap and saw a very bright meteorite streaming across the sky heading roughly north.

It must have been reasonably substantial because it lasted a while and only disappeared from my view after going behind trees.

Anyone else spot it? I was viewing it from south Dublin btw. Best one I have ever been lucky enough to see :-)

Chardee MacDennis

Cartoon_Head wrote: »

Just took the dog out for a crap and saw a very bright meteorite streaming across the sky heading roughly north.

It must have been reasonably substantial because it lasted a while and only disappeared from my view after going behind trees.

Anyone else spot it? I was viewing it from south Dublin btw. Best one I have ever been lucky enough to see :-)

just posted about it myself, was the longest i've every seen. seem to have a flash in the middle too. looking from south quays towards the northside myself.

rubbledoubledo

I saw it also.
On my way to limerick from Cork.
Visible for quiet a while

Kersh

Nice one.

Must have been fairly bright.

Did it break up at all?

Chardee MacDennis

Kersh wrote: »

Nice one.

Must have been fairly bright.

Did it break up at all?

from what i saw about half way down there was a ball of light but it continued straight after, no break up as such. like this but vertical:

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rubbledoubledo

Yes from what saw, it never broke up.
I very disappointed, the part of the road i was driving at the time,i was in a glen, big banks and trees on the sides. Could not have been in a worst part.

It went down behind the trees in all its glory.
A third of the sky was out of my view
I think i lost another 2 or 3 seconds viewing.

Kersh

You guys are really lucky

MeteoritesEire

just being pedantic--it's only a meteorite when something is recovered on the ground

Did anybody hear anything--sonic booms? If not it was likely hundreds of miles away and probably ended up in the sea if it was going north

no mention on http://lists.meteorobs.org/pipermail/meteorobs/2013-June/thread.html so unlikely it was picked up on all sky cameras or radar

nmop_apisdn

MeteoritesEire wrote: »

just being pedantic--it's only a meteorite when something is recovered on the ground

Whats it called flying by?

MeteoritesEire

meteor generally
some define a meteor with brightness of greater than -14 as a bolide though this isn't tightly defined or used by everyone.

Fireball is also sometimes used for bright meteors