Anyone see meteor strike last night?

helper


Joined: 16/01/2009
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Message Posted:
10/09/2010 20:11

Last night driving across the Iskelle / Essenteepe mountain road at approx 11 pm i saw what i thought was a firework streaking across the sky, but declining not rising. It was silver / blue/ lilac, it crashed to the right hand side of the road about 6ft from my car. the body of it was bigger then a large pumkin, as it nearly hit the ground i saw silver streaks comming from it. Never seen anything like it before. I have just seen on the web that NASA have stated two big asteroids were close to earth on wednesday, maybe the two are connected. Did anyone else see it or similar?

Glynn


Joined: 25/03/2009
Posts: 192

Message Posted:
10/09/2010 20:14

No......Had you been drinking? Just a thought.

helper


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Posts: 235

Message Posted:
10/09/2010 20:16

ha ha ha -nope totaly sober, didn't hang around to see if mini aliens got out either hahaha

measey


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Message Posted:
10/09/2010 20:22

helper. it could be the suffolk witch.

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
10/09/2010 20:24

It was a xenophobic comet sponsored by the Government to exterminate all aliens without ptp's or deeds for illegally possessing land bank rolled by certain financial institutions!



Richard

helper


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Message Posted:
10/09/2010 20:28

Ha ha love it

YFred


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Posts: 1471

Message Posted:
10/09/2010 20:47

No we'll have the GCs wanting 5 to fall on to their side to balance it. You can kiss good by to an agreement. Hang on a mo, maybe somebody can throw a few stones across the border that will fool them.

HildySmith


Joined: 02/07/2009
Posts: 1708

Message Posted:
10/09/2010 21:26

Yes Helper, my Son was in the Varanda restaurant and they saw it. He said it was fantastic and DEFINATELY a meteor due the the colour and the trail back

Maz


Joined: 29/03/2009
Posts: 1924

Message Posted:
10/09/2010 21:31

Oh shuc\ks, why do I miss all the best bits of life. I would have LERVED to hav e seen that. What a wonderful thing to see, and also sounds like a lucky mistake. Another 6ft and your car could have a whacking great hole in it!!!!

Tatlisu4me


Joined: 26/01/2008
Posts: 436

Message Posted:
10/09/2010 21:35

I saw something similar last December helper, but did not see it land.

helper


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Posts: 235

Message Posted:
10/09/2010 21:56

I am so made up some one else saw it. It was brilliant. only regret i couldnt film it. Yep it was so close to car another second and it might have hit,

Tinkie


Joined: 16/03/2009
Posts: 1256

Message Posted:
10/09/2010 22:03

Yes we saw it, we were just leaving my in laws house, it was really bright, we thought it was a large flare or something at first, but then realised it was too big, too high and too bright!!!

zerochlor


Joined: 03/04/2009
Posts: 4024

Message Posted:
10/09/2010 22:06

i was driving to famaguster on wednesday and in the distance to the left i saw a tornado forming,id left my camera in the office!

i pulled over and watched it for 2 or 3 mins until it dissapeared.

Jetski


Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 584

Message Posted:
10/09/2010 23:37

Remember where it fell and go fetch it. Meteorites are worth a fortune to collectors.

YFred


Joined: 06/05/2009
Posts: 1471

Message Posted:
11/09/2010 00:08

Can a meteor the size of a pumkin really fall 6 foot away from him and survive who is he kidding? Probaply somebody threw a rock at his car and missed.

There was no GCs about was there? I hear some crossed the border recently at the Checkpoint Charlui.

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
11/09/2010 00:13

Jetski. Thats interesting (message 14) I never knew that.

helper


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Message Posted:
11/09/2010 02:04

I just looked on Meteoroid From Wikipedia, on there is a picture of a Bolide. It looks similar, but the one we saw had flashes of light streaks from it. That road is very dark. It lit up ever where, like an exploding rocket It happened very quickly. never seen anything like it before.

dreamer


Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 189

Message Posted:
11/09/2010 08:23

Thurstday night large green ball of light crashed into the sea at bacheli approx 10.30pm

bridie


Joined: 18/09/2008
Posts: 308

Message Posted:
11/09/2010 08:46

I also saw what appeared to be a large ball of light travelling at great speed whilst eating out in Ozankoy, but there again have seen them many times before here. They are amazing, and makes you feel good to be alive and priviledged to see such phenomena. Certainly gives you a buzz.

Zoony


Joined: 26/03/2010
Posts: 136

Message Posted:
11/09/2010 09:14

The government have just brought in a Meteor tax anyone seeing them must report it imediatly to the tax office and you willbe taxed depending on the size of the Meteor you the have to go for a blood test to find out if you have been contaminated.



P.S. only if you are a ex pat !!!!!!!!!

Whistler


Joined: 28/07/2008
Posts: 1332

Message Posted:
11/09/2010 11:41

helper: There was a very big firework display in the vicinity of the Merit Hotel last night at around 11pm.

Some of them were massive. We were watching from The Roof bar.

Peterbilt


Joined: 15/08/2010
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Message Posted:
11/09/2010 12:17

Mess 19

Bridie, I too was eating out in Ozankoy (Erols to be precise) and saw the same thing at about the same time time.

DONTY


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Message Posted:
11/09/2010 14:10

Helper: Did you find it?

malsancak


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Message Posted:
11/09/2010 14:13

the "meteor" was reported to coastguards as mentioned in http://www.northcyprusfreepress.com/2010/09/11/cruising-the-mediterranean-from-north-cyprus-by-david-gerrard-1192010/

TRNCVaughan


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Posts: 4578

Message Posted:
11/09/2010 14:24

Run the numbers and see what you get.

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects.

helper


Joined: 16/01/2009
Posts: 235

Message Posted:
11/09/2010 16:29

Donty, no I havn't been back to look for it..

Malsancak. That was a very interesting read, maybe it was the same thing that i saw. It was the strangest thing I have ever seen in my life. Thanks for all of the replies and sightings.

aquilla


Joined: 17/07/2010
Posts: 1

Message Posted:
12/09/2010 09:46

The smaller an asteroid, the more numerous they are, is the general rule of thumb for our solar system. According to the best estimates, objects 3 meters across impact the Earth and deliver about 2 kilotons of TNT of energy. Objects 100 meters across collide with the Earth every few hundred years and deliver about 2 Megatons of TNT equivalent. A 1 kilometer-sized object impacts the Earth every million years or so and delivers about 100,000 Megatons of TNT. If this object did hit, then it would have left a large hole together with a small explosion. Go back and check it out.