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Moonman
15-10-2006, 09:54 PM
Friday evening at about 10.45pm a group of us Ian(photon) and Simon(?) and myself were packing up after our first observational night with and Adult Ed Class we are running in Launceston and a magnificent fireball streaked accross the sky from West to East and broke up into two visible fragments before it burnt out.

Usually you blink and they are gone but once spotted the others had time to turn and see as well. It was a pity the class had all gone home.

We have two more obs nights for the class in the next two weeks so we might be lucky and see some more.

anyway at least the warmer weather has brought us out of hibernation

bye for now
jjjnettie
15-10-2006, 10:24 PM
Wow that must have been spectacular!
What colour was it?
Moonman
15-10-2006, 10:43 PM
No noticable colours. Just very very bright and long in duration. Does that indicate that it got down a fair way before burning out I wonder? I suppose thats logical. It seemed rather low in sky heading East.
iceman
16-10-2006, 05:51 AM
Wow that would've been quite a site!

btw long time no see, nice to see you again!
Astroman
16-10-2006, 07:41 AM
WOW havent seen a meteoriod like that in years, last time was back in 2001, during the leonids meteor shower.
Moonman
17-10-2006, 06:52 PM
Yes its been a mucky dark winter in Tas. Too cold and too cloudy. But I suspect I'm just a wimp!

Looks like such an event as this meteor is a rare pleasure.

Summers on the way!
ballaratdragons
17-10-2006, 10:56 PM
Your not alone Michael!

Friday, Saturday & Sunday nights I saw several fireballs coming from the North!

Dunno what's going on unless they are the last dregs of the Leonids! ???

These ones were slow, large and bright yellow/white. Can't check for any tonight coz it's raining.
Dobman
31-10-2006, 11:34 PM
Iwas was with Mike when we saw the meteor split in 2, I,ve never seen anything like it. I thought It was orange in colour. how big would a meteor have to be to be able to split into two bits?
mattweather
01-11-2006, 07:38 PM
there was no meteor, news have not reported it. i check the sites and theres nuffin in the sky, u eyes got an UFO thats all and the UFO got split into three not damn faggot two, blindlers!