Super slow meteorite?

[Tim]

Either this guy has seen a meteorite travelling so slowly that it allowed him time to go inside, call his wife, find his video amera, fire it up, film it, then go back for binoculars, or just been duped by another chinese lantern?

Opinions?

BBC News - Meteorite captured on camera over Pontyclun

Cheers

TJ

[DarkerSky]

Could be either.

I have witnessed a slow moving fireball once in my life with burning flames actually viewed leaping off the head of the object. In my notes I said

"Velocity was slower than any meteor. A long yellow/orange tail left behind"

Unfortunately I never recorded the time period I saw it over. I guess you dont when you see something like that - you just stand there in awe !

[Sam]

if it appears to be going slow (and it's not a Chinese lantern) wouldn't that mean it's either coming towards us or going away? or on some angle close to that? I hope it's going away!!!!

[DarkerSky]

if it appears to be going slow (and it's not a Chinese lantern) wouldn't that mean it's either coming towards us or going away? or on some angle close to that? I hope it's going away!!!!

Maybe.

Alternatively, there must be a size / initial velocity / atmosphere drag ratio where something of a certain size at a certain angle drags in the atmosphere to such an extent that it slows up appreciably?

The one I saw in 1986 was just on a general east west trajectory with a tail that indicated normal lateral movement

Where's a physicist when you need one ??