# Meteor/fireball seen across UK **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 21, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-fireball-seen-across-uk/635444 "2012-09-21T22:52:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-fireball-seen-across-uk/635444/1 "2012-09-21T22:52:12Z")
About 11pm BST. And I missed it… or at least I don’t think it was even visible this far south, anyway. Video here found via Twitter (some NSFW language) [http://twitter.yfrog.com/07l5tkggpuvoluavefdcaztrz](http://twitter.yfrog.com/07l5tkggpuvoluavefdcaztrz) ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-fireball-seen-across-uk/635444/2 "2012-09-21T22:58:41Z")
My guess is Sontarans. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2012, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-fireball-seen-across-uk/635444/3 "2012-09-21T23:00:25Z")
Dumbest Twitter comment so far: “Nice of Nasa to give us a warning about that meteor, wasn’t it?” Er, that would be a little chunk of rock about the size of a tennis ball, probably smaller. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-fireball-seen-across-uk/635444/4 "2012-09-22T18:08:12Z")
So…any more news? Did anything make it to the ground? ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-fireball-seen-across-uk/635444/5 "2012-09-22T19:20:57Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > So…any more news? Did anything make it to the ground? There are [reports](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19683687) that it might have been a piece of space junk burning up, as it moved across the sky fairly slowly. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-fireball-seen-across-uk/635444/6 "2012-09-22T19:28:51Z")
Yeah, looks like a bit of scrap metal from Florida 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-fireball-seen-across-uk/635444/7 "2012-09-22T21:06:20Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > My guess is Sontarans. A fireball? Nah, must be Martian. Hopefully they haven’t invented antibiotics yet. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-fireball-seen-across-uk/635444/8 "2012-09-22T21:27:01Z")
> [@](#): > > Dumbest Twitter comment so far: “Nice of Nasa to give us a warning about that meteor, wasn’t it?” Er, that would be a little chunk of rock about the size of a tennis ball, probably smaller. That, and the budget for finding the really dangerous space rocks is only about a tenth of what it’d need to be to do the job properly. You want NASA to warn you about meteors, you need to actually pony up the cash. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meteor-fireball-seen-across-uk/635444/9 "2012-09-22T21:29:33Z")
I was lucky enough to catch sight of a large meteor that blazed across the North Texas sky several months ago. It was big and bright, yellow and green-blue. It was really an amazing sight. I’ve seen plenty of shooting stars that make thin streaks for a few seconds, but this was so much bigger and more impressive.