A rippa meteor!

[fringe_dweller]

Did you see your meteor sat night/sun morning to Mike? wow!
I videotaped the footage and eye witness accounts from channel 10 - i replayed it a few times - they say that it was heading S/W - if you look carefully there is only one faint star looking thing visible in the wide view over brightly lit suburbia looking S/W - and that was of course Venus at mag -4.6ish I reckon - I guesstimate roughly from that comparison that the brightest outburst may of been anything up to at least the high teens of negative mag - maybe even - 20 !! naaaa!!? Venus hardly registers on the footage tho

there is online vid from abc now as well - right hand top corner of page
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...2/s1523140.htm

[iceman (Mike)]

ah nah Kearn, the one Louie and I saw was last Saturday night.

I'll have to look at the video tonight, my work firewall won't let me play it now

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

The Perth Fireball has made World News. It is on CNN.

They are playing the Video captured by some people and doing a 5 minute segment on it!
Must have been impressive to create such news worldwide!!

[ving (David)]

Originally Posted by Starkler

So how do you distinguish a meteorite from any other lump of rock you see lying on the ground?

look underneath it to see where its made?

I havent seen one for ages.... saw a slow moving one a few months back tho.

[ving (David)]

great vid kearn!!

[avandonk]

I have heard of people dragging a three metre+ long magnetic bar and see what sticks.The Nullabor is limestone so anything that is magnetic came from somewhere else.


Bert

[ballaratdragons (Ken)]

Originally Posted by avandonk

I have heard of people dragging a three metre+ long magnetic bar and see what sticks.The Nullabor is limestone so anything that is magnetic came from somewhere else.


Bert

Pity it didn't work that simple with Gold, Bert. I'd be dragging something through the bush everywhere up here!

[danielsun]

Yes Trevor i think i saw the same one though i thought it was at about 2.00 am but i could be wrong . i was in the looking east when in the corner of my eye to the left of me in the north a huge multiple flash like lightning lit up the entire north sky. i just caught the end of the tail. wish i had have seen the whole thing!! It was huge!!!

Originally Posted by TidaLpHasE

Well i saw/didn't see the brightest flash in the sky this morning at around 4:15 4:20 am.

I was imaging M42, and was watching a satellite coming from the north, I looked at the exposure time on the lcd screen when i noticed a flash in the corner of my eye.

It wasn't that big so i didn't bother looking for what it was, as a night of viewing has numerous flashes all over the sky.

A second or so later my whole back yard lit up brighter than day, i actually freaked out at it's intensity, and turned to see a dust, smoke, debris trail in the sky at least 25 degrees long.

It was awsome even seeing this smoke trail, it lasted only seconds then vanished into the background.

It was heading south about 50-60 degrees above the horizon.

Did anyone else from Melbourne see this this morning?

[astrogeek (Leon)]

Danielsun, looks like you saw the one I mentioned earlier in the thread. I was driving back from Heathcote at about 2am when I saw what you described and in the same area of sky.