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POLICE ARE MORE used to capturing criminals than astronomical phenomena.
However, that wasn’t the case in the early hours of yesterday morning. A police car was travelling along a motorway in the West Midlands in the UK just after 3am when the dashboard camera captured this short clip of a meteor fireball falling from the sky.
The West Midlands police said the meteor, which was visible across Wales and the west of England, is believed to have broken into pieces as it entered Earth’s atmosphere.
The BBC reports that the green fireball meteor was observed by an observatory in Devon and was bright enough to cast shadows.
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Mmm, not exactly Deep Impact is it.
Nobody does fireballs like the Russians.
If you visit the dunsink observatory they have a decent sized fragment of the Russian meteorite they’ll show you.
I think ill pop my head in over the weekend! Cheers..
Definitely do. Lovely people there and a few other bits from outer space to see. I got hold an argentine meteorite. Not often you can say you’ve held something that rare. Contemplating it’s journey to reach you is a bit mind blowing too
Zzzz
A meteorite must have hit the line or somethin… Well we’re ok here are ye ok
there..
Expected more, although what was the flash to the left of it before it fizzled out?
Looked like lightning.
That was father jacks brick
Someone three a ciggy butt out of the window of the double decker going the other way.
The No 27 I think :-)
Meh!
What do you say to that.
Such stupid ‘news’ when so much is going on around us…. Keep the imbeciles busy with futile rubbish like this whilst worthy news introducing whiplashing new legislation and taxes is being ignored….
Snore..
That’s it.!!!!! Wtf
What a waste of 10 sec
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