Did anyone see a bright green light in the sky last night - circa 6pm'ish?

Meteors enter the earth's atmosphere at a speed of 25,000mph and upwards. Definitely too slow to be a light plane.

Chinese lanterns perhaps?

22,
were you self-medicating last night?
No offence intended.

The same one made the news here, too.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/fp/news/local/watch-meteor-shooting-across-north-east-skies-tonight-burnt-out-just-by-trilby's-house/

Haha Torq, I fell for that ya fooka

No Eric and no.  No offence taken either

Mik, they may enter at that speed but they soon slow down and burn out.  This thing was going a 1000th of that speed, horizontally with wee green bits dropping off - like the vid.

2nd time I've posted this, so apols if I double post.

Meanwhile, there could be more coming over the next few days ... http://www.mirror.co.uk/science/quadrantid-meteor-shower-shooting-stars-11766444
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Suprised there's not more on the news.

Sorry Trilby! Happy New Year to you mate!

Jan 1, 2018 -- 4:12AM, Torquemada wrote:

Sorry Trilby! Happy New Year to you mate!

Yeah, I'll go along with that.

No worries Torq, I should have read your entire "link" before I c&p'd it into my browser.  Good one!

Yup, Happy New Year guys and arrabest for the year ahead

are bits of meteors worth a fair bit of money ? trilby get out in yer garden yer lazy fecker and start looking ya might hit the jackpot 1

Rain's on just now but I've reported it to the BBC on haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk

Doubt there'll be anything left of it as it would have been very light in weight going so slowly.  There was no sound of impact.

^ otherwise I most certainly would be out looking for it!!!

years ago  on a beach i found a strange looking lump of molten rock type thing, heavy weird shaped  never seen anything like it , intigued me so i took it home ,put it in the garden probably still there somewhere ,might be worth seeing if i can find it !

I saw two shooting stars last night I wished on them but they were only satellites

Fireballs are not that uncommon.  I don't know why the media are ejaculating over this one.

Plenty reports filtering through now.  I had never heard of such a thing - nevermind seen one so close!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_fireballs

Lying on the settee watching TV with the grandaughter when this gold and green streak of light flashed across the sky from east to west around 5:40 pm. Actually looked quite close so didnt think it was  meteorite. Which ive seen before but allways seemed thoushands of miles away

Nice one Geoff!

Here's one from Leeds ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AotNhxbmP90

Well, I don't see anything on https://www.nasa.gov/ about these badgers.

Perhaps the gravitational pull of tonight's full moon will drag some more in?

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/news-articles/a-supermoon-trilogy

I'll be taking my camera with me when I pop out for smokes tonight

Anyone interested in looking out for one, the one I saw last night came in on a low trajectory from the east - just to the right of the moon, around 6pm - give or take half an hour.  The moon was at circa 30 degrees in height.

Enough with the normal, boring, standard assumptions, it was a ****g alien obviously.

Odd thing Aas, I bought my bruv the 30th aniversary edition of HG Wells' War of the Worlds for his Christmas.

It's quite amazing how rapidly the moon rises when you study it.  Was out for a tab since my previous post and it was one third the way above the hill.  When I came in, it was fully showing.

I think it might be looking at me.

Fireworks on New Years Eve shocker.

Some peeps really should try reading freds before they post, imo

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Dang funny filum, btw.  Akak.

I caught some bizarre & beautiful butterfly like things on a video over Christmas. Been googling 'spirit orbs'. All very odd.

Could have been one of these, right enough Hammy.  It would have been travelling slowly by the time it got here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-42531996

Okay, you Naysayers.  Stick this in yer pipes and smoke 'em!

http://arpc65.arm.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fireballs/browse.pl

I can only guess there was something bigger that broke up, going by the variation in reports.

Why is there nothing much on the news?

Thought the following reported sighting had an amusing location:

Date:

2017-Dec-31

Time:
5.40pm

Location:
Outside house