http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-17248959

My daughter and I spotted it while driving back from a concert. It was quite spectacular.

 

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Has anyone heard from London, today?

Hopefully it'll have been wiped off the map

 

I bloody missed it

 

Most of Britain from Scotland to Penzance saw it. But I didn't.

 

missed it as well :-(

 

I was outside taking shots with my telescope at the time (see Photography section). So I was in prime position to see it, but was looking the other way.

 

sorry, I posted from my phone and the mobile version of ScoobyNet does not have an advanced option on posting links and I could not be bothered to add them :-)

 

As always, here on Humberside, if their is spectacular event in the night sky, it's cloudy.

The only ones WE see are the ones on our town motto: "Refulget Labores Nostros Coelum", the skies reflect our labours. We see the clouds glow like the fires of hell when the steel furnaces are tapped/fired.

Used to be even more spectacular when slag was tipped onto the slag banks, but it doesn't happen now, it all goes for foam slagging to make roads.

 

When I was in Australia a few years back their was some comet which was visible for a night or two. The sight of it was quite extraordinary, it has this massive trail behind it.

 

Nope missed it here on the south coast


Mart

 

no-one know it was coming?

too small to be picked up by people in the know? i missed it, and gutted lol, id love to see something that spectacular.

 

Cos I'm lazy

Astraboy.

 

Years ago I had a special project to do which involved flying around at night with a several million candpower light in a Canberra wingtip.

You should have seen the UFO reports which used to come in!

Les

 

 

Yes, saw it. Weird how it was visible for a good 20-30 seconds, and obviously flaming. Completely different to a shooting star which is a quick flash of silver.

But why do so many people call the police. What would they do even if it was a plane with an engine fire

 

It made me laugh when I read that people where ringing up asking if life on earth was going to end. I would have said "you'll know in about 10 minutes"..

 

looks like i was one of the few who saw it as well.
Driving back from father in laws house in brum saw what me and the misses thought was a large rocket with sparks trailing and assumed it was some just a random fire work, but someting told me it was just too high and it just kept going with orange sparks flowing from it.
Eventually lost it amongst the sky line and tought nothing of it till yesterday.

 

Daily Fail. "Terrified"; get a grip

That's not the meteorite, unless it did a U-turn! Even the map on the same page shows it moving a lot further south than Redcar.

But a couple of good photos there.

 

well it was clerly heading roughly south when i saw it several hundred miles away in Birmingham so unless it was a complelty different meteorite then no it is pretty obvious its not the one but then again that's exactly what we learn to expect from the Mail (or any other red top for that matter).