Asteroid watch

[mothhawk]

I think I saw one of these asteroids as I was on my way to work at 5am this morning. A ball of bright white light with an orange-red tail crossed the sky low down in front of me extremely fast from east to west as I drove out of the village in pitch darkness.

Wow! what an amazing sight it was!

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[Ananke]

Fantastic timing Mothhawk. I saw a huge one years ago and it was such an amazing sight to see.

[scarey55]

How interesting! Fascinating article, thank you

[mothhawk]

Well, it seems what I saw was not the asteroid, which in actual fact is just a tiny dot in the night sky in a fairly stable orbit, but a FIREBALL!!!

I sent my observation to the UK fireball observation network, who will analyse it and see if there are other confirmed sightings. They have 4 other pending reports that occured at the same time.

I checked out the pending report page and from the long list, people must be seeing fireballs all the time. Who knew they were so common??

Here's a link to a video glimpse of one at Church Crookham in November last year...

https://ukmeteornetwork.co.uk/fireba...ight-fireball/

[Ms-T]

WOW never seen any thing like that

[Small pumpkin]

That is awesome! I didn't know about the fireball thing.

I saw Halley's Comet when I was 9 or 10 it was brilliant. The next time it will be visible from uk I'll be 75. If I'm still here I'd like to see it again.

[Ananke]

This is the meteor I saw.
https://news.sky.com/story/meteor-fi...ss-uk-10469321

I called (screamed) to hubby to come and look and he thought it was an aircraft on fire so that kinda ruined the experience for us as we thought something terrible had happened.

I love to sky watch.

[Nicos]

Gosh...-I've never seen a fireball!
Didn't get to see these asteroids either.
I did see Halley's Comet though way back then too SP...
Also Hale-Boop comet in the 90's

[ingridcarley]

Wow , so lucky.Most of the people doesn't get the opportunity to see Asteroid .