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Meteorite? Meteoroid? Visitors?

  • 03-02-2010 7:33pm
    #1
    cornbb
    Registered Users Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭


    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?


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  • #2
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,057 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Seriously... landed?

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


  • #3
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


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


  • #4
    kraggy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,414 ✭✭✭kraggy


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


  • #5
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #6
    joe316
    Registered Users Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭joe316


    F-cking NASA, phone is on hold


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  • #7
    jtsuited
    Registered Users Posts: 6,401 ✭✭✭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.


  • #8
    Blackhorse Slim
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 1,269 Mod ✭✭✭✭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:


  • #9
    MaybeLogic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭MaybeLogic


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


  • #10
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


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


  • #11
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,568 ✭✭✭✭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


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  • #12
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭squod


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


  • #13
    cornbb
    Registered Users Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭cornbb


    Very cool!


  • #14
    The Dagda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭The Dagda


    MaybeLogic wrote: »
    They're worth a fortune.
    Treasure hunt, anyone?

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

    i'm in...


  • #15
    wylo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,214 ✭✭✭wylo


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


  • #16
    kerash
    Registered Users Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭kerash


    Awesome, where is it?

    Also

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


  • #17
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    cornbb wrote: »
    Meteoroid?

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


  • #18
    Midnight_EG
    Registered Users Posts: 9,694 ✭✭✭Midnight_EG


    So sorry, I was trying to get home for dinner


  • #19
    annetduffy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭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.


  • #20
    Midnight_EG
    Registered Users Posts: 9,694 ✭✭✭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 ;)


  • #21
    ian_m
    Registered Users Posts: 1,322 ✭✭✭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...


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  • #22
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    Midnight_EG wrote: »
    Samus is a girl ;)

    Oh yeah.... yeah.. yeah..... I knew that. :D


  • #23
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭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!


  • #24
    Danbo!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,942 ✭✭✭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.


  • #25
    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭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!


  • #26
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,016 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


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


  • #27
    Sligome
    Registered Users Posts: 46 ✭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.


  • #28
    marcsignal
    Registered Users Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭marcsignal


    nice 1 for post #12 squod :)

    wonder did mission control in sligo pick it up ??
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfz9O_mSY1U


  • #29
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭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? :D
    Littlesapling I don't care if the world is ending because of the #meteorite. I'm finishing my chicken dinner and watching Glee

    .


  • #30
    .50 (MOA)
    Registered Users Posts: 170 ✭✭.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


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  • #31
    sorrywhat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 951 ✭✭✭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!


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