Meteoroid Over Canberra

Conan of Cooma said :

I’ve been seeing more than often but that can be attributed to the usual annual activity. I saw a corker the other night that was bright green and burned for a good 3 seconds before lighting up the sky, and was much, much larger than your average incoming rock.

Was it probing the atmosphere?

I’ve been seeing more than often but that can be attributed to the usual annual activity. I saw a corker the other night that was bright green and burned for a good 3 seconds before lighting up the sky, and was much, much larger than your average incoming rock.

mossrocket said :

My kids saw something near braidwood about a month ago – during the day!
They said they saw a streak of light across the sky that went behind cloud cover – they expected it to disappear then, but it lit up the cloud as it travelled through it.

It seems we have an invasion happening, and Bill Gates is here to greet our overlords as Earth’s representative.

Mossrocket, if it was during the day, around dusk/dawn, another possibility is it could have been an Iridium flare, they can be very bright.
See http://www.heavens-above.com/IridiumFlares.aspx?lat=-35.28333&lng=149.2167&loc=Canberra&alt=609&tz=AEST

@Dub

Finally worked out your comments….

Now know who Gungahlin_Al is and that he is normally the one with the head in the night sky…

Regards

Bob

@bigfeet,

The Internet is littered with various definitions, many conflicting….

However this seems to be similar to many other answers….

“The debris is called a meteoroid. A meteoroid is a piece of interplanetary matter that is smaller than a kilometer and frequently only millimeters in size. Most meteoroids that enter the Earth’s atmosphere are so small that they vaporize completely and never reach the planet’s surface.”

Regards

Bob

Meteoroid or Meteor?

I thought that once it collided with, or passed through the Earths atmosphere it ceased being a meteoroid and became a meteor?

Of course Mr Fitz, my grade five teacher, may have given me the completely wrong information all those years ago!

@54-11
yes that sounds like you were looking at the same thing. It was spectacular….especially the brightness of it. I say it startled me as I was just relaxing before going to bed, with everything quiet, and this just appeared – no noise…have to admit it was close enough that I listened for a noise if it hit the ground.

I suppose its not beyond the possibility as it is Meteor season (increased amount around).

I checked the Meteor registration sites this morning and seems to have been a rash of sightings around the world last night at a similar time (+/- 1hr) – possibly meteor break up??

@Dub
I probably missed the “joke”….I assume that there is a Gungahlin_Al around??? or is he the resident foil hat wearer 😉

Regards

Bob

Yep, saw it as well. Was facing about South-west in the car and a very quick streak went over. Very quick but quite spectacular.

My kids saw something near braidwood about a month ago – during the day!
They said they saw a streak of light across the sky that went behind cloud cover – they expected it to disappear then, but it lit up the cloud as it travelled through it.

It seems we have an invasion happening, and Bill Gates is here to greet our overlords as Earth’s representative.

Gungahlin_Bob, you may want to log out and log back in as Gungahlin_Al, then explain. 🙂