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Orange fireballs in the sky?

einshteen · 2012-09-21 22:08:59

Me and my friends were just standing in the back garden there, and we saw a bunch of orange "fireballs" in the sky. They were moving really quickly and had passed through the visible skyline in about 20 seconds. There were 5 or 6 of them, and all seemed to be moving with the exact same velocity. Not to sound like a nut,…

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#32 25-09-2012 9:41pm
mayotom

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polydactyl wrote: »

Saw those myself in Drumcondra about 10 min ago. Really strange. Definately seemed to be falling while travelling. Looked very much like "asteroid"

Ha ha , so what does an Asteroid look like. An Asteroid hitting earth would end life as we know it

Walkman wrote: »

Not Chinese lantern, I'm in Doolan and just saw them too. Seemed to be moving south when I was looking west. Think it may have been a meteorite breaking up, wasn't a shooting star as moving too slow.

Meteorite = Rock in Space
Meteor = Meteorite burning up in the earth's atmosphere
Shooting Star = Meteor.

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