There are increasing meteor reports recently all over the world. More debris from the Px tail...
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March 3, 2012
Reports of a "bright light" and an "orange glow" were received by police across Scotland and the north of England around 9.40pm.
The Met Office tweeted: "Hi All, for anyone seeing something in the night sky, we believe it was a meteorite."
A spokesman for Strathclyde Police said the force had been "inundated" with calls about a bright object in the sky across the west of Scotland. A Durham Police spokeswoman said a number of calls came in around 9.45pm from concerned members of public who had seen a "bright light or a fire in the sky" and believed it may have been incidents involving an aircraft. "
It has been confirmed with air traffic control that there are no incidents of aircraftin difficult and nothing registered on radar," she said. "
The sightings are believed to be either an asteroid burning out or similar which has been restricted to the upper atmosphere only." Grampian Police said reports of people seeing a "flare or a bright object with a tail" were received from across the region. And Dumfries and Galloway Constabulary said numerous calls were made about a "large ball of fire in the sky" across Annandale and Eskdale.
One user wrote on the force's Facebook page: "It was awesome to see! Really big and bright!" Hundreds of people took to Twitter to report similar sightings across Scotland and the north of England. People described seeing a bright fireball moving across the sky with a large tail.
The Kielder Observatory also reported the sighting of a "huge fireball" travelling from north to south over Northumberland at 9.41pm. The Observatory posted on Twitter: "Of 30 years observing the sky #fireball best thing I have ever seen period."
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Seems this was also observed in Australia:
- March 05, 2012 -
The meteor was seen across Victoria at about 10.45pm, including at Anglesea, Frankston, Berwick, Cairnlea, Tullamarine, Dandenong.
The fireball even caused a sensation in the UK with police inundated with emergency phone calls.
The control tower in Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport was also flooded with calls from locals fearing there had been a plane crash.
Astronomer David Reneke said it was unusual that the fireball was spotted across the globe and said it was probably the lead up to a meteor shower that was about to happen.
He said usually at the end February fireballs were often seen but not in March.
"To be seen around the world - it's crazy," he said.
"They are just slow moving bits of rock that catch on fire and burn.
"On occasions they even explode."
Herald Sun reader Brad Dorrington, of Newborough, witnessed the sky show.
"(It) looked amazing several red hot glows with a trail behind them with what looked to be dust behind it," he said.
Benjamin Cross, of Berwick, said it was surreal to glimpse the fiery tail.
"(It was) the most amazing thing I have ever seen," he said.
Here is some further information on the meteor:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2109920/Meteor-lights-sky-E...
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