Fireball

albertw

From the www.irishastronomy.org board:

If you saw anything then please add comments to http://www.irishastronomy.org/boards/viewtopic.php?t=153 or contact John at the mail below.

Cheers,
~Al
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Irish Astronomical Society

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hi everyone,

maybe some of you may have heard more about this.

John Nooney's observatory outside Mullingar hosted an open night on
Wednesday night for the public to come view Mars.

some of us travelled down from Dublin to help on the night and while there, Val Dunne, one of our group, got a call from his niece in
Ennis who had witnessed a very bright fireball that trailed down to the near distance and then she saw a very bright flash of light like an explosion.

Val's niece is an amateur astronomer herself so her report is genuine. I rang Ennis garda station to determine if any other reports came in and while doing so Val's niece rang him back to say that Clare FM was being flooded by calls from members of the public.

about 5 to 10 minutes before we got that report, quite a number of people in John Nooney's witnessed a very bright meteor trailing across the sky in a south-westerly direction and it disappeared over the horizon.

if anyone has any reports or can help verify what was seen then I, along with the rest of us on the group, would be very interested in
seeing if it was a genuine meteorite fall and how we can go about recovering it.

feel free to post to the group or mail me directly on skynotes at eircom dot net

John Flannery

South Dublin Astro. Soc.

GoneShootin

thank god im not alone !

I thought I was seeing things, I went out to take a look at the skies - extremely cloudy. Then I spotted this bright blue "thing" streaking through the sky, pretty low it was too.

Scared the hell out of me. The clouds didnt help with the glow, making it look larger then it was (I hope)

albertw

again from www.irishastronomy.org.

John Flannery (South Dublin Astro Soc) had included his address and phone number in the post which I've removed, please mail him for extra contact details.

If you saw a very bright meteor at about 11:30 pm on wednesday night please take the time to get in touch with John.

Cheers,
~Al
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hi everyone,

many thanks for all the reports being posted to this and the other
IFAS forum.

I was on Clare FM radio last night with David Moore talking to a presenter about the fireball and other aspects of meteorites. Both David and I are collating reports and we are fairly confident that some sort of stone was dropped somewhere in west Clare or, alas, into the sea or Shannon Estuary.

we have asked people to log any reports and send them to us while someone else on the ground is going to investigate for me down around the Kilkee area.

if it's no trouble, could I ask anyone who has posted reports to the group to date to fill out a report form and post it to me? The following website has a template that can be printed (5 pages).

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball/report.html

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the form can also be e-mailed to;

john dot flannery at jefferson dot ie (substitute "dot" with ".",
etc.)

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many thanks for all your help on this and I will keep everyone up to date on success or not in any search for the object.

John

albertw

Hi again,

The IFAS have got an online fireball report form up for anyone who saw the fireball on wednesday night last.

http://www.irishastronomy.org/reportFireball.php

The reports from this atuomatically get mailed to John Flannery of the South Dublin Astronomy Society. He and David Moore from Astronmy Ireland will be pooling the reports to see if they can locate the impact.

Cheers,
~Al
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www.irishastronomy.org