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Fireball in the southeast

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  • 01-03-2011 9:42pm
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    HighWire
    Registered Users Posts: 238 ✭✭


    Just saw a fireball travelling east to west looking south from Curracloe to Wexford town about 8:25.
    Low enough in the sky, fairly bright too.


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    draward
    Registered Users Posts: 206 ✭✭draward


    I live in in kilkenny over looking Gowran and seen it, it was mad.


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    DavMar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭DavMar


    My mam and dad saw it in Waterford around this time too....mam very excited!


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    Beeker
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 3,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beeker


    Missed that:mad: Love to have seen it!


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    dollydishmop
    Registered Users Posts: 561 ✭✭✭dollydishmop


    Saw it in North Tipp too....beautiful sight, can't believe it was visible for so long :)


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    yankinlk
    Registered Users Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭yankinlk


    Was it definitely a fireball? I saw the same thing at 8pm last night, heading same direction. It was very low in the sky. I was driving in a car and saw it in the front window. I have seen meteors before, they burn out much much quicker and travel a lot faster in my humble experience. This had a long streak behind it - longer than any i seen before. I also thought it was very bright - like sattelite bright. Reminded me more of the ISS then a fireball.


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    dollydishmop
    Registered Users Posts: 561 ✭✭✭dollydishmop


    yankinlk wrote: »
    Was it definitely a fireball? I saw the same thing at 8pm last night, heading same direction. It was very low in the sky. I was driving in a car and saw it in the front window. I have seen meteors before, they burn out much much quicker and travel a lot faster in my humble experience. This had a long streak behind it - longer than any i seen before. I also thought it was very bright - like sattelite bright.

    Whatever it is I have seen something like it before, only a couple of times...but each time it had a long tail, and travelling almost parralel to the horizon.

    yankinlk wrote: »
    Reminded me more of the ISS then a fireball.

    Deffo looked *nothing* like the ISS to me...I do try to get out and see the ISS whenever its visible and it has never looked like that when passing over.


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    HighWire
    Registered Users Posts: 238 ✭✭HighWire


    I reported it on Astronomy Ireland and sent them a mail but I didnt get a reply.
    :(


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    Calibos
    Registered Users Posts: 7,807 ✭✭✭Calibos


    HighWire wrote: »
    I reported it on Astronomy Ireland and sent them a mail but I didnt get a reply.
    :(

    Calm before the storm tbh :D

    Be afraid, be very afraid. Now they have your email address you'll never get rid of them. Any communication with them and they automatically subscibe you to their mailing list I think. Emails telling them to unsubscribe you have no effect. Impossible to block them because they keep inventing new email addresses! I stupidly sent a fireball report to them a few years ago and I add each new address to my blocklist everytime I get an AI email. I am still getting emails from them years later.


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