asteroid over dublin earlier??????

evosteo

i was just on my way home from work, north bound on the m50 when this caught my eye approx 5.15pm. i thought it was a shadow from the sun or something like that but there was a huge dark trail before the cloud,

there was a plane crossing the path around the same time and this cloud looked huge and way, way above the contrail as it transited

i remember seen videos of the one that hit over russia and this had a smaller but similar trail.

heading east to west

i had to half the size of the upload images as they where taking up the whole screen

TeaBagMania

Blue sky and no rain :cool:

The One Doctor

I saw the contrail you described and it was way more impressive than the photos about. All I can surmise is that if a meteorite made it deep enough into the atmosphere to produce a contrail it would have made one hell of a sonic boom. Also, the contrail was exactly along the path of an airway. Too much of a coincidence. That said, the brightness of the contrail I saw suggested a high proportion of ice crystals, which might indicate that the contrail was unusually high.

jfSDAS

Hi evosteo,

Very nice pics ... many thanks for posting.

The dark streak is the shadow of the aircraft contrail projected on to a very thin layer of slightly higher cloud. The low sun at the time is the giveaway. In the pictures the sun is shining from below the contrail and projecting the contrail's shadow upwards.

Les Cowley's web site is a terrific resource about atmospheric phenomena. The page on contrail shadows at http://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/contr2.htm shows an example while http://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/shuttle.htm is a pretty dramatic rocket plume shadow from a shuttle launch!

John

evosteo

jfSDAS wrote: »

Hi evosteo,

Very nice pics ... many thanks for posting.

The dark streak is the shadow of the aircraft contrail projected on to a very thin layer of slightly higher cloud. The low sun at the time is the giveaway. In the pictures the sun is shining from below the contrail and projecting the contrail's shadow upwards.

Les Cowley's web site is a terrific resource about atmospheric phenomena. The page on contrail shadows at http://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/contr2.htm shows an example while http://www.atoptics.co.uk/atoptics/shuttle.htm is a pretty dramatic rocket plume shadow from a shuttle launch!

John

Amazing. Never knew.

SNAKEDOC

Id imagine flight radar would clear this up fairly quickly also by checking any aircraft transiting over that airspace at that time in that direction at a high altitude.

rolion

Hi,

Got the same event recorded.
Thanks for sharing !
Amazing timing...

You can see the unedited photos HERE

In one of the pictures, you can see that inide the trail left by previous plane is flying another plane, but its line is straight.

Enjoy.