shooting star?

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  1. dave d

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    just been out wi dog and a massive green flash tracked across the sky and i mean huge,just after 9 somebody else must av seen it!!
     
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    Aliens mate, there after anal probing humans to see how we survive.
    The best we can hope? Is its heading to Cheshire , and they find Givover, and the feckers ain't got no lube. :D

    On a serious side though Dave with the wind, it could just be a matter of overhead power lines flashing and arcing.
    You can get some spectacular displays when that's going on.



    But I'm still pinning my hopes on the first one ;)
     
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    Could be Dave. Copper/iron/nickel meteorites can burn green. It's a bit late in January now for the Quadrantids shower, but they rarely are big enough to be more than a streak. Watch on the news feeds for other sightings. If it was it could have been seen all over the country.
     
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    Always seems to be too much cloud when ever we get the chance of a good show, certainly around our parts.
     
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    i hope so Ken........but after reading Garys post theres some main pylons across fields,bugger!
     
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    This one was seen all over the UK last September.

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    I saw one about 15 years ago, it was so low I first thought it was in our atmosphere! I wrote about it and NASA confirmed what I had seen and said it was rare to see one.

    Known as a blue green fireball.
     
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    I've been looking up for 40 years and have never seen one. I often sit out during the regular showers, if its warm enough, and they often put on a decent show down here as the light pollution is low, but they need to get pretty low in the atmosphere to burn like the one in the picture and to make it that far they have to be pretty big. Pretty big for a meteor is about the size of a sack of spuds though. It's the kinetic energy that'll kill ya. The piece of iron and nickel that made this...

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    Was only 50 metres across.

    Here's a bit of scale for perspective.

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    dave d newspaper.jpg
     
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    It will probably be a white 2012 HRC Blade :D
     
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    we need pics man ;)
     
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    They were after my yorkshire puddihg recipe!
    Look at these oven toppers!

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    When i do 4 i av to tie cooker down.........made by an authentic Yorkshireman.
     
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    Anti gravity batter. That's what the space aliens were after.

    Fair salivating at them bad boys Dave boy.

    My boss has an interesting theory about batter. How does it know what it's supposed to be?

    You make it the same way every time but it might end up a Yorkshire pud, battered fish, toad in the hole, pancakes, the list is endless. But how does the batter know?

    He makes a point of always telling it what it's going to be as he's mixing it, so it never goes wrong.
     
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