Giant meteor i just saw...

[Jeeps]

Did anyone see the large meteorite or space junk that just broke up over south east queensland about 1 hour ago? It was huge! I stopped on the side of the road, as did all the other cars in front and behind us and watched it disappear over the horizon. It was in 2 large pieces. Just before is disappeared i remembered i had my camera so i took a picture but by then it was very faint and the image not so great but here it is anyway...

http://i421.photobucket.com/albums/pp300/jeeps_photo/Home/Meteor001.jpg


cheers

[leon]

Well Sam you were in the right spot at just the right time, luck was certainly on your side.

Leon

[DavidU]

Awesome ! Lucky fella. It looks like it may have been a big bit of space junk.

[Jeeps]

It was in the sky for approx 3-4 minutes. It was directly overhead originally and was extremely bright. I thought at first that it was far too bright to be breaking up and burning and thought it was a low plane or hot air balloon but then the second burning piece appreared and we decided to pull over, as did many other vehicles. Too bad i forgot about my camera when it was at it's brightest :(

cheers

[telecasterguru]

Sam,

Great that you at least saw it. I'm sure it was awesome.

Frank

[Dexter]

Never mind me i should look at the date of original post. move along. nothing to see here :)

[niknik1]

My husband saw a bright yellow object speed across the sky last night, approx 9:30'ish. He called out to me but by the time I got outside the house it was too late & I missed it. However, it was extremely interesting to see a very obvious & large trail, like a vapour trail, left behind it. This hung in the atmosphere for at least 15 minutes or so after, gradually moving into an arc shape before eventually dispersing.

This was a spectacular sighting and we're interested to hear if others saw it, and in your comments about the trail.

regards
KK1

[Protiotype]

Welcome to IceInSpace Julie. :) Just out of curiosity, was it your husband who phoned in to 612 ABC Brisbane this morning a bit over an hour ago?

[Dexter]

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=53186

here's the thread for the 19/11 sighting at roughly 9:30-9:45pm.