Fireball Over Wales

nagora writes "After last weeks meteor strike on an Indian village, Astronomy Picture of the Day has a spectacular photo of a fireball over Wales. Come home to a real fire..."

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Fireball

[Anonymous Coward]

At least that's one fireball in Wales that can't be blamed on the nationalists ...

Re:Fireball

[mhesseltine]

This is the most interesting thing to happen in Wales.

You seem to forget the birth of Katherine Zeta-Jones. Mmmmmmm......

Remeber Kids

[kinnell]

Don't do high energy physics experiments in your mothers microwave without taking the appropriate safety precautions

Re:Remeber Kids

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't do high energy physics experiments in your mothers microwave without taking the appropriate safety precautions.

Two men are surprised to meet in mid-air, one plummeting downward toward the ground while the other soars higher upward. As they pass, the first yells out "Do you know anything about parachuting?" The second shouts back, "No! Do you know anything about gas barbecues?"

...Buy a cottage in Wales

[carndearg]

Very impressive picture, kudos to the kid who took it. I am curious to know though whether any of the pieces of the object would have made it to earth or whether in such events they merely pass through the outer atmosphere in a blaze of glory. I am guessing that a "sofa sized" object would have quite a lot of energy and would cause quite some destruction had it struck the earth in one piece.

"Come home to a real fire" in the context of Wales made me laugh though. Back in the 1980s it was the slogan used to advertise coal fires, and at the time the extreme fringe of the Welsh Nationalists were burning down holiday cotages in North Wales owned by absentees.

I cant remember who it was, might have been "Not the 9 o'clock news", ran a spoof of the coal fire ads, "Come home to a real fire, buy a cottage in Wales"

You young folks might not know

[falsification]

You young folks might not know what that is. You might even be scared. Well, let me tell you. That thar fireball warn't caused by no rock fallin from the sky. That thar was a dragon.

I always wondered what happened when .....

[rawdirt]

everyone flused the toilets in a 747 at one time ;)

I saw one _just_now_ outside, in DC

[blakespot]

I just went outside to bring some food back to eat at my desk as I work here, programming in Washington DC. As I was making the 3 block walk to my normal lunch spot, I saw a glare out of the corner of my eye and looked up and indeed a bright fireball was almost directly overhead - this was not 1 hr ago!!

I did not make out a tale due to the sheer brightness of the fireball but after some time I was able to determine that it is slowly headed west, having approached DC from the Atlantic, presumably. A co-worker claims she saw it just crawling over the horizon this morning at about 7am. It is far, far brighter than the full moon, I can tell you with certainty.

What is going on with all these fireballs?

blakespot