Fireball 8th Dec

[lukebl]

I see there are a lot of reports on the web about last night's fireball.

I'm NOT a Daily Mail reader (I feel I really must stress that!), but I stumbled across this report on their website.

Dazzlingly bright meteor hurtles through the skies above Britain | Mail Online

As you can see, the photograph is clearly of a comet (I recognise it, but can't remember which one), not a meteor. When will they get it right? The public so often thinks that a comet whizzes across the sky!

[oldfruit]

I have read the same today on the net and am really gutted as i was out walking with my daughter at the time but saw nothing,

[CrazyMike]

Standing at the bus stop about 5:35pm, happened to glance int he right direction saw the whole thing

Was rather cool to say the least

[DarkerSky]

LOL @ the Daily Mail picture !! D'uh !!!! Go stand in the dunce corner!!

I wasn't outside at that time, so missed it unfortunately

[Altair]

Standing at the bus stop about 5:35pm, happened to glance int he right direction saw the whole thing

Was rather cool to say the least

Be interested to know if you heard anything, or just saw it.......

[Buzz Lightyear]

i was just about to post about it, i was look left of Orion last night when i saw what i thought to be a flare, coming down, it slowed right up and was very bright, it looked like it was about 120 degrees.

it was awesome.

[Buzz Lightyear]

just read the post and what i saw was another one at about 7.30pm, looks like there will be some show soon at the Geminid meteor shower. :-)

[Euan]

Seen this as well in Edinburgh looking south at 5:35pm approx, jaw hit the floor it was like something straight out a disaster movie

It must have been massive and very high if it was seen in the south of England!!

[perrin6]

Darn it ! - missed another one. Here's hoping for clear skies around time of maximum of the Geminids.

[Dave]

I saw quite a bright one just after half six as I was making my way down to the observatory for some imaging. Nicely fragmented at the end.

A great start to a successful evening.

[CrazyMike]

Be interested to know if you heard anything, or just saw it.......

Just saw it, lasted about 2-3 seconds, very bright, slight orange tinge. Little bits dropping off it.

[george7378]

I'm interested in just how big a meteor this was - my brother saw it as he was coming home from school late, and from his description, it sounded like a big one. I've seen many before, including ones that have crossed the entire sky and exploded at the end, and varying ion trail colours, but I don't think any of them made the news! This really makes me want to stay up all night for the Geminids!

[spaceboy]

I saw it Wednesday at 18:30 come over east to west. I ran in the house saying I'd saw a UFO. I was polar aligning at the time and poked my head out the obsy to orientate Polaris only to clock out the corner of my eye 2 glowing lights in parallel flying across the sky. Because of the large glow, no usual light trail and way they moved too and from each other I didn't think it could be a meteor. Thank god it was in the news papers that it was meteors as everyone must have thought I was a nut ranting on about UFOs. The too and fro movement must have been them skiting across the atmosphere. Amazing sight to see either way.