I have just seen the most beautiful site. A meteor of the deepest red, a distinct flare with a tail, came over in a great arc, moving very slowly and slightly wobbly, and gradually dwindling away to nothing. Just as it vanished, a second one appeared from the original spot and traced the same arc, like a celestial action replay. Each was visible for around two minutes.
It was breathtaking and beautiful. I don’t care if it was space junk frazzling as it entered the atmosphere, the effect was divine. My plans for November 5 seem a bit pointless now.
If they were visible for about two minutes they were probably space junk. Meteors are a lot quicker.
site->sight
tale->tail
Excellent sighting, Craig! Yep, too slow for a meteor, probably something from orbit.
How beautiful. You were lucky to see it. I suppose that you have a ‘big sky’ there.
sounds like the ISS
have a look on heavens above dot com
Well, the only likely predicted re-entry I can find is for Cosmos 2469 Pl, which is apparently the last high-orbit early warning satellite, a cold war relic from Russia.
Carrotcruncher, I saw the ISS go over this evening at about 17:19 – I’m in Essex UK. I certainly hope that isn’t what Craig saw burning up.
It’s been raining from about 16:30 today – it could have been a display of The Day Of The Triffids standards, we wouldn’t have seen a thing. But the longest single meteor illumination I’ve ever seen was a couple of seconds at most – barely enough time to shout and point for another to turn and see the end of it. Two minutes sounds remarkable indeed – that must have been space junk.
Sorry, I haven’t fixed all the computers yet – including my favourite that is in “the computer room” – it arrived on 9th September 2001 – I was shocked but still got up early the next day to travel across London to attend the next day of my course at Learning Tree International – which my employer paid for me to attend…
So I wrote this today…
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So O.K. – I Fancied Her Like F@uck
A bit like The Girl In The Good Life…
And she introduced me to her daughter Rhiannon..
Who I had definitely Never met before…
And She was talking to me as if She Knew Me Inside Out…
And so I thought..well I have got to go along with this…
And try and make out as if I knew who these Two Girls Were – Mother and Daughter…
And so I thought well I haven’t a clue who her Mum is – and I really do not fancy her daughter…
And She Gave away a few secrets…
I still didn’t have a clue…
So I asked my wife…
She said – I know them – The Mum walked back home with Mxxx a few months ago – but they did not have sex…
So I said I am not interested in that…
But what is The Mum’s Name?
I already know the name of the Daughter…
She said I don’t know… ask Mxxx
A Lot of Quality Tonight
These Musicians Never Cease To Surprise Me
They are So Up Their Own Arseholes That I Find It Hard Not to Laugh Inappropriately
I Love Them To Bits Really – And They Know It
Tony
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tony_opmoc [Moderator] 52 minutes ago
Today in the late Afternoon
Was a Photographers Dream…
The Lighting Was Just Exceptionally Perfect…
With The White Horses Highlighted By The Decaying Sun…
With The Autumn Trees Showing Their Most Wonderful Colours In The Background…
And I was Exploring All This Beauty With The Girl I Really Love
My Wife
Photographs Cannot Show It
I Have Not Even Looked Yet
It Doesn’t Matter
We Saw This Beauty Together
Tony
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We also saw a lot of cows and white geese – or they may have been ducks –
And a few people walking hand in hand – some as old as us
And some younger – with their two year old
And a Baby Cow
Who her Mum thought was completely safe sitting by the sign post
We have Rights of Way in The UK
We Respect Our Countryside and Our Farmers Who Provide Us With Our Food…
But My Wife was a bit upset by The Dead Sheep…
And she had to go and see it…
With all its guts exposed and being eaten…
Judging from her family history and looking at her hands…
She has peasant girl hands – inherited by lots of hard work over many generations
I just find it incredible that I was so lucky to meet such a lovely girl…
She keeps me alive and fit and takes me to see some of the most beautiful things in the World
All Over The World
She just keeps saying to me….
Come on – We have Got To See This…
And We Do
I Couldn’t Possibly Ask For More
Tony
Sorry, I am Not Fucking Having It…
I am NOT HAVING MY SERVANTS _ MY ELECTED GOVERNMENT
Being Scared To Stand Up and COMPLAIN
About People Being
BOILED ALIVE
I am Not Having It
I Am ENGLISH and PROUD
We Don’t Do THAT
We String These Monsters Up By Their Nalls
And Put Their Heads on The GATES OF LONDON
Tony
egads, here we go again 🙁
Can’t SOMEONE fix that leaking tap?
Dear Craig,
If you have a date and time for the meteor I will add it to my Meteor/Meteorite News website: http://www.lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com
Thank you for your report!
Dirk Ross…Tokyo