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Spectacular Fireball Lights Up UK Sky
The Bad Astronomer writes "An extremely bright meteor burned up over Ireland and the northern UK around 22:00 UTC on Friday night, and was apparently witnessed by thousands of people. It traveled east to west, and was moving relatively slowly. It may have been an actual rock, or it may have been some human-made space debris — a satellite or rocket booster — burning up. Space junk tends to move more slowly, so that's a potential suspect, though orbiting debris usually moves in the opposite direction. I'm collecting pictures and images on my Bad Astronomy blog."
... but it was aliens...
n/t
It started out much like these videos. A bright head with a trail behind it, but then the object exploded, spraying material in all directions and burned out very quickly.
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I didn't hear about his Virgin Fireball project yet.
Was that, by sheer coincidence, around pub closing time . . . ?
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Dear Humans,
We are NOT space junk !
This was warning number 1,
Aliens
I was watching this went out for a smoke saw something bright and green coming directly towards me. I live close to an airport so thought it was just a plane coming in to land at a funny approach. After a minute or 2 it started getting bigger and brighter still coming directly towards me then a piece fell off it with a massive trail and I realised what it was (late night i was being slow). Continued to watch it as it kept getting bigger and bigger. Almost directly overhead and it split into loads of little pieces from green to orange they all developed massive trails and then just vanished there was nothing blocking my view and I was looking almost vertical at this point so I must have just caught the end of it. Would be nice to know where it actually impacted as by the time it vanished it was bright enough it was actually lighting up the fields around me.
I wish I hadn't gone to bed early last night...
Here's a little video from Ireland.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6BZF8dhYJI
When it travelled east to west, it most likely wasn't human-made space debris.
The Doctor was just keeping the UK safe once again.
I saw this over Sweden as well, exactly that time yesterday.
I thought it was party fireworks from our neighbors that had a party that night, so I didn't think about it until I thought it was a bit funny that there where no firework sounds, no explosions.
But that red ball that floated around was sure big and bright. I really honestly just thought it was your average red flare.
What this world is coming to - is for you and me to decide.
Came to think about the fireworks theory.
It could be leds, fireballs, all kinds of flying devices people have made as a joke for this particular day.
As some of you may recall, this is in fact the day predicted by the mayan calender that the world will end.
So I'm sort of guessing that it's a lot of pranksters all over the world, shooting up some fireworks to...well...get us all worked up!
Hey - it worked for a few minutes :)
What this world is coming to - is for you and me to decide.
...will go blind and be eaten by ambulatory carnivorous plants. Sorry to deliver the bad news.
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Aliens testing asteroid bombardment,
Seriously folks, prove me wrong. --- I dares ya.
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What's the difference between pictures and images?
Very true. Odds are against it but...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_satellites_in_retrograde_orbit
I love Jesus, except for his foreign policy.
The next day, everyone who saw it is blind. And suddenly--walking, intelligent, deadly plants.
It's a sign from God to all those Christians that they should drive Islam out of their country.
It's a sign from God to all those Muslims that they should drive Christianity out of their country.
It's a sign to atheists that cool shit happens.
Goodness Gracious Great Balls'O Fire!
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We can hope.
Kind of off topic but,I wonder how much storage one would need to monitor the sky horizon to horizon for a 24 hour period?
From your link: Most commercial earth observing satellites use retrograde orbit[4], and almost all communication satellites use prograde orbits.[5]
Free Martian Whores!
Interesting, but not spectacular.....seen many fireballs that put this one to shame....
it was a champagne supernova in the sky?
lol.
IF anyone has read 'War of the Worlds', they landed in England first... now I'm making sure I have my supply of bacteria around me well fed.
Game of thrones is currently filming season 3 in Ireland. I am sure that this is related to their SFX department.
Remember Ralph of Nazareth?
Hell no!
Nobody remembers the quiet ones, but everyone recalls that dude who was crucified, Jesus of Nazareth. (Bet Ralph was glad he never paid any attention to his mom when she would constantly nag him, “Why can’t you be more like that Virgin Mary’s boy, Jesus?”)
Yup, Jesus was the guy always stirring up trouble: turning water into wine --- wouldn’t he be a real fave at the Capitol Hill Block Party?
And that walking-on-water trick --- if only they had Jesus with them the day the Titanic hit that iceberg --- or if their captain only knew how to navigate, huh? (Now that would have been a frigging miracle!)
And we all know what becomes of the guy who’s popular and gets all the attention?
It’s crucifixion time!
Now, if they crucified that Jesus Christ guy, they surely should crucify the antichrist, right?
I believe we all know who the antichrist is by this time, or damn well should?!?!?!
Yup, he’s that crazy Mormon who talks like a Scientologist and is cagey about his tax returns from 2007 to 2009.
Let’s vote for a national referendum for the crucifixion of Mitt Romney, a k a, the magic underwear dood!
Do you wear magic underwear? Does your daddy, brother or best friend?
Hell no, only Willard Mitt Romney is so special he wears magic underwear, and if that isn’t reason enough to crucify, I don’t know what is, plus there’s that whole antichrist persona he’s got going on!
Now, with that Nazareth fellow, Jesus, it was three-fer, a three-for-one deal, with two other guys also crucified, so we’ll toss in Paul Ryan, a k a Paul “I love Ayn Rand” Ryan, plus either Michelle Malkin (in which case it’s a nude crucifixion) or Ann Coulter (in which case she’s fully clothed, with a gag and a bag over her head) to even things out.
So everyone, please contact your elected representatives and request another box on the voting form this November: the crucifixion of Mitt Romney, Yea or . . . .(we may just forget to include that negative choice).
If it’s 2012, it must be crucifixion time!
....and we've got to be ready!
I saw it (or the last bits of it), out on the verandah reading slashdot here in West Wales. Only caught it from the corner of my eye, seemed yellow to me and travelling NE-SW, and as I can only see about 15' of the sky between the roof of the verandah and the apple trees next door, it was gone before I looked. I thought it was a particularly bright shooting star (ie, not a notable event), though not much of it until the morning radio news mentioned it.
Yeah, not an interesting contribution, but a datapoint of sorts.
Earth observation satellite orbits are typically polar and only slightly retrograde, with an inclination of around 100 degrees. If it was one of those coming down, it would been north-south or south-north, not east-west like this was.
Their atmospheric entry is expected and recorded.
This is yet another sign of Jesus's return to this world. I understand why people are skeptical, but it says things like this will happen in the Bible. And, people have been saying He will return for a good number of years now. As much as the people that write those history books lie to us because they are under false impressions themselves just like you and I are at times, I doubt it was even 2000 years ago that He resurrected. Also, Islam is a serious problem because it teaches them to kill each other and use brutal punishment like chopping people's hands off. Yea, I've hurt someone too. Who hasn't? We crucify each other and our children with neglect because we are expected to go up to the meat grinder everyday and work for nickels that will never make ends meet, paid to us by people who, at times, do what they do to try to help you and have advocates who write letters and even protest things to get you the things you need and we never make it right because we're too busy to actually help anyone half the time, which is partially a damn excuse. And do not judge me for using the word damn because in the Bible in the book of Isaiah, it says the word piss, and people teach their children never to curse. It's acceptable when it's called for. And no, I'm not Jesus man. I'm learning how to do more for myself and what I'm supposed to do day by day, just like we all should be.