That feature isn't there in data 5 mins before or after. Given sound was so widely heard, the RAF have told some outlets it wasn't their planes & there's nothing I can see on the live BGS seismograms, there's a part of my brain wondering if this could have been a meteor bolide?
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And, look, there's this visual report from Wales concurrent with the timing of the
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So the question is: was there anyone else in the bit of west Wales that had clear skies at ~14:50 today that *also* saw something that sounds very much like a meteor bolide. Perhaps
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Worth noting that *if* (and that's a big IF) this was a bolide, then these can sometimes be registered by US government satellites. These are then sometimes listed at https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/fireballs/ , but I'm not sure what the update frequency is on those listings...
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And now reports of a 'disintegrating' meteor being seen -- at the same time as sonic boom heard in UK -- from north-west France.
@UKMeteorNetwork@SCAMP_Meteors@UK_Fireball@FireballsUKhttps://twitter.com/heidavey/status/1373323131134304257 …Näytä tämä ketju -
And there you have it! Actual footage of a daylight
#meteor bolide at 14:53UT today from a dashcam in Jersey: https://www.itv.com/news/channel/2021-03-20/watch-meteor-sighted-over-jersey …#sonicboomNäytä tämä ketju -
As a coda to this thread [which was fun to piece together in 'real-time', I have to say]: If anyone observed/filmed the
#meteor#bolide at 14:53UT today (from the Westcountry/Wales/France/Channel Islands etc.), please submit reports to@UKMeteorNetwork:https://ukmeteornetwork.co.uk/fireball-report/ …Näytä tämä ketju -
We saw how scientifically important such reports and national/international collaboration between members of the public and scientists were with the
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Adding more info as I can to this thread on the
#meteor#bolide: The dashcam footage from Jersey [https://twitter.com/willgater/status/1373327945863987210 …] was taken from the road in St Helier here: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@49.1818832,-2.1085883,106m/data=!3m1!1e3 …. The bolide appears first (roughly) in the NW and then tracks rapidly towards due N.Näytä tämä ketju -
OK. Here it is! This afternoon's UK
#meteor#bolide over the skies of the Bristol Channel (it's the little bright spot that appears just off the coast near Minehead). This data was kindly processed for me by@simon_sat (thanks, Simon!) Image credit: Simon Proud/NCEO/EUMETSATpic.twitter.com/SrFMPeBQmhNäytä tämä ketju -
For completeness, here is probably the best recording I know of of the
#sonicboom likely associated with today's#meteor#bolide. https://twitter.com/EastFleetFarm/status/1373332308254687233?s=20 … Would *love* to know exactly how accurate that time stamp is, as could be handy to cross-reference with the dashcam video.
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Here's some really decent audio of the
#sonicboom, recorded by a birder in Dorset, showing just how long the rumbling lasted. >>Warning! Check your headphone volume before playing, if you're using them (as I was!).<< https://soundcloud.com/joseph-stockwell/explosion/ … h/t@James__Gale#meteor#bolideNäytä tämä ketju -
Had some Qs about whether yesterday's
#meteor could be connected to the#Winchcombe fall. Short answer: no -
moves ~2.5 million km in its orbit each day, meaning we're over 50 million km further around the Sun; so the two space rocks would have been a long way apart in space.Näytä tämä ketju -
Wow! Fantastic images here of yesterday's daylight
#meteor#bolide, as seen from Jersey.@UKMeteorNetwork@UK_Fireball h/t@peninsulabirdshttps://twitter.com/JenDeaco/status/1373573701514452994?s=20 …
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Update on Saturday's bolide
#meteor story: I've been in contact with NATS, who look after UK airspace/ATC. No sign of the meteor, or falling meteorites, on their radar systems. Statement from a NATS spokesperson included below.pic.twitter.com/NztKhnEzz8
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UPDATE 30/3/2021: Adding a final tweet to this thread from the day of the meteor bolide following new analysis by the
@UK_Fireball team. See:https://twitter.com/willgater/status/1376958069159170048?s=20 …Näytä tämä ketju
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