Large Fireball Witnessed over Ireland

Wow! Now thats a big meteorite!!


Phil, Have you uploaded the fireballs you caught? would love to see if its not too much hassle for you!

Graham

I would concur with Deirdres advice, but I doubt if anything will be found. Given all the reports I heard, all the ones I've heard from experienced observers place the event no brighter than mag -6. Thats nowhere near a big enough event to result in a drop. You see with all due respect, most of the general public who see this will be utterly amazed and blown away by an event like this which most have never seen before and as a result will vastly overstate when asked questions like 'Was it brighter than the full moon' because in their minds eye, it was.

I also havent heard any reports of sounds heard. This would also be very significant.

Graham: When objects reach the ground they are more or less cold after giving up most of their heat to the air as they drop, there is no radiation of note to be worried about. Like you say the biggest risk is being whacked on the head by such an object.

Its good that people and the media get excited about this, it does no harm at all, I just think those of us who should know better keep a little more of a level head.

Dave.

Graham that is not the biggest one in the world there are bigger !!

Yes me too , would love to see Philips captures

Deirdre Kelleghan
Vice Char IFAS
Outreach IFAS
National Coordinator Astronomers Without Borders Ireland .
www.irishastronomy.org/
www.deirdrekelleghan.com/
twitter.com/skysketcher

Graham wrote:

Phil, Have you uploaded the fireballs you caught? would love to see if its not too much hassle for you!
Graham

No so far - the files are uncompressed AVIs (for maximum data/detail)and weigh in at between 46Mb and 190Mb. That's a lot of data for just a few seconds! If I can figure out how to compress them I'll post them up on Youtube.

Phil.

Armagh's sky camera was turned on at 18:00 hrs , and saw nothing .
So the fireball must have been slightly prior to 18:00 hrs
The person to contact in Armagh Observatory is Robert McFarland
if there is anything to report for this or for future incidences.


Deirdre Kelleghan
Vice Char IFAS
Outreach IFAS
National Coordinator Astronomers Without Borders Ireland
www.deirdrekelleghan.com/
twitter.com/skysketcher

The reports I'm getting sent to the IAA are saying 1750-55. There was a lesser event at 1930 which apparently Armagh have on camera.