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Fire in the sky

Postby kipper on Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:15 pm

Hope one of our WA brothers/sisters captured the fire in the sky (aka meteorite or whatever it was).

Just saw it on the news, looked pretty....umh....frightenting
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Postby xerubus on Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:26 am

i saw that on the news too... looked incredible.

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Postby darb on Mon Dec 05, 2005 12:10 pm

wasnt visible in perth, i dont believe
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Postby Muzza22au on Mon Dec 05, 2005 2:33 pm

darb wrote:wasnt visible in perth, i dont believe


All that we saw was a bright flash in the sky, but from where we were it was thought to be some lightning, a few matess rocked up and told us that they saw it and it had a tail and all. Unfortunately I got zero shots even though I had the camera around my neck, takng pics at a 50th b'day!!!

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Postby sirhc55 on Mon Dec 05, 2005 2:35 pm

Reminded me of ”War of the Worlds” when I saw the amateur video footage :D
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Night fire !

Postby team piggy on Mon Dec 05, 2005 10:46 pm

Just had a "smaller" similar one right across Metro Adelaide. (Dec 5th 9:50 pm). :shock:
I was taking some shots of the moon and saw a good 4 seconds of it! Very freaky! And of course no pics as I had just popped an 8 second time exposure! Aghhh.

It did however leave a smoke trail in the sky for a good 30 seconds afterwards.
It went from East to west and a very sharp angle to the ground.
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Postby Oneputt on Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:01 am

Driving down to Brissie a couple of years ago before dawn I saw a massive fireball andc watched it for quite a while as it streaked across the sky. I thought it went down north of Brissie but I learnt later that it landed in northern Victoria somewhere, that was how big and close it appeared.
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Postby BBJ on Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:11 pm

Damn i thought it was Darb's mate tarring up the sky like they do the beach. :lol: Well some lucky person got it on tape and well would have made a killing on it.
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