Alan Meehan
I was one of the fortunate to see it I got up
at 5.30am Saturday 5th June 2010 and made a cup of
tea and went outside for a smoke and this thing was right
in the sky to the nth east about 20deg and to the nth of
mercury, the moon and Saturn were over head there was some
cloud about and this spiral seemed to be behind some light
cloud, I would suggest the object was not moving quickly but
the cloud movement seemed to make it appear to be moving
quickly, by the time I had run back inside to get my
camera it had gone, it was a truly spectacular sight.
ALAN
Thomas Macokatic
Saturday 18th July 2009 at around 1am I spotted a huge red
fire-ball meteor while walking North-East toward Redhead Grange
with a friend. I describe the direction of the meteor as
travelling down from East to West low in the sky towards the
ocean at Dudley lasting long enough for my friend to also see it
after I exclaimed "a meteor"!
Amanda Macokatic
On Saturday 9th May 2009 at around 6.30am I spotted a very
bright white and yellow meteor in the sky as I was driving North
East from Charlestown towards the university. It had a tail and
lasted for a while I was watching it for at least 10 seconds.
Dane Thwaites
On Thursday 9 April 2009 at 5.21 while
driving East in Mayfield Newcastle NSW I saw a bright meteor
come down. It hit the ocean probably about 5 kilometers from
shore. Bearing from Bull Street Mayfield near Kerr Street
was 98 degrees. It appeared to be travelling North with a
dip of about 80 degrees; in other words, it was coming
almost straight down and was only visible for a second. It
started as a bright yellow line and flared up to about one
eighth of a degree across before vanishing behind low cloud
into the sea. It was then bright day; if it had been dark
this would have lit up the street.
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Richard Clarke
Hi Everybody,
I was just wondering if there are any reports of a meteorite
landing in
the vicinity of Hexham swamp Monday evening on 19/11/07?
One of the guys at work is convinced that he saw it make ground
contact
followed shortly after by an impact noise.
Regards
Richard Clarke
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Tracey Evans
Saturday, 25 April, 2009
I was just enquiring as to
whether or not anyone else had seen what I just saw. I was
out the front of my house at Warners Bay, I was looking east
(south) at approximately 7:09pm and saw what I think was a
meteor. It was approximately 40 degrees in the sky. It was
a large streak (blue green at front white towards the rear)
heading towards the ground, it lasted only a few seconds but
was extremely bright it is hard to say how long it was. I
have never before seen anything like it before, I know a
little about astromony, and have seen shooting stars before,
but never a meteor. This was the brightest thing I have
ever seen. It was like someone shot a very bright firework
(however there was no noise). Anyway I was just curious if
anyone knows what it was.
Thanks
Tracey Evans.
