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PEOPLE FROM THE top to bottom of Ireland have reported seeing a fireball over the country last night, but nobody is sure where it landed.
The fireball was reportedly seen from Donegal to Cork at around 10.10pm last night, lighting up the sky for a number of seconds.
These fireballs are caused when a large rock from space burns up in the atmosphere as it collides with Earth at speeds of the order of 100,000 mph, causing a huge explosion equivalent to thousands of tonnes of high-explosive.
David Moore from Astronomy Ireland says that parts of the meteor may have survived.
“This event was so bright that a piece or pieces may have survived the re-entry and landed as extremely rare and valuable meteorites” said David Moore.
“We are appealing to everyone who saw the fireball to fill in to online report form on Astronomy Ireland’s website as soon as possible while the details are fresh in their minds. In return we will send everyone our analysis of all the reports and where we think any meteorite may have landed.”
Moore says the the Irish Coast Guard at Valentia contacted Astronomy Ireland as they were receiving so many reports of possible distress flares.
Any companies who operate CCTV cameras are also being asked to check their recordings for Sunday night around 10:10pm to see if they recorded the fireball.
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It’s always the quiet places where the mad shite happens
So you’re saying it landed in leitrim somewhere?
jokes aside you never here anything about Leitrim. has anyone checked to make sure they’re still there?
Nah
“We are appealing to everyone who saw the fireball to fill in to online report form on … In return we will send everyone our analysis of all the reports and where we think any meteorite may have landed.”
After they scoop up the pieces.
Couldn’t see if from the barstool I was sitting on.
Without Larry Cunningham nobody would have heard of Leitrim.
Report it, feck that where’s me shovel?
If it can be taxed the government will find it .
If it distracts people’s attention SF will use it.
“Nobody is sure where it landed”
A problem I often have myself.
The no side will blame the gays
The yes side will blame who?
Iona Institute claiming it was God telling Ireland to vote NO or else he will smite us with meteorites
What’s that daddy? Don’t worry son that’s just Jesus turning on the lights up in heaven.
My little brat let off an illegal firework. It was massive.
What the firework or your brat?
Superman has landed!
I heard it cost 17 billionworth of damage to the water infrastructure
Disintegrated over carlingford lough and mourne mountains
How come I saw it go south to north over Belfast then? I don’t think any of us can confidently say where it disintegrated just yet.
Some meteorites can fetch obscene amounts of money, there’s gold in them thar hills!
Which hill though??
My son and I saw this on the Galway/Mayo border. I thought it was a flare.
Seen it heading north east over dublin..figured it landed somewhere in the irish sea. Seen in glasgow,wales and western UK according to twitterbox
And over a stable too…
Saw a fireball last year. There were a few of them during a meteor shower.
Possibly the most impressive thing I’ve seen in that respect.
Unless it was a satellite with Uranium batteries, as it says uranium can burn like magnesium?
fire ball in corrandulla galway 9 45 pm 23 9 2015
Many cosmonauts who were in the early U.S.S.R. space program were taken as shooting stars as re-entry caused them to burn up, clever of them hay? NASA used that knowledge to design their own space program then…
The fireball is probably in everyone’s lungs by now lol.
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