Hi all , I was wondering if anybody was out at 5.30am this morning ( sunday ) and happened to be looking north east ?
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Anyway at 5.27am I was walking back to the stores after my night shift up here at the DLNG shutdown .
I was heading north east and at about 85 degrees from the horizon due north , a bright light , that at first I thaught was a plane taking off from Darwin airport with its landing lights on ( 20km'd north of the DLNG ) as I see them all the time . But this had a long tail moving east at a leasurely pace .
But no it was a really bright metior comming is at a steep angle ( about 45 degrees) from northeast down torwards east south east . yippe !!
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As I watched it break up right in front of me in slow motion as a bright orange colour , there was no one around to see it but me .
Anyway at about 15 degrees above the eastern horizon it broke into maybe 10 pieces and these were all bright white , splitting from the origonal orange mass .( still in the steep 45 degree dive )
This seemed to happen in slow motion over probably 20 seconds right in front of me .
. Awsome , not something you see every night .
Naked eye observing is still alive in my books .
So if any one else spotted this , perhaps we can triangulate its landing position and ,,,
there will be some metiorites to be found , just looking at its path thru our atmosphere .
Let us know .
Brian , off to bed now .