I just saw a meteor

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    ICU Tyke New Member

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    the largest I have ever seen. Must have shot about half the width of the sky.
     
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    sure it wasn't a firework sweetheart?
     
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    ICU Tyke New Member

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    Very sure!

    Visible for about 90 degrees of arc across the northern sky. By a long way the biggest I have seen!
     
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    RE: Very sure!

    have you seen many darling? :eek:
     
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    RE: Very sure!

    Have you seen many then?
     
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    ICU Tyke New Member

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    Only that one tonight, but over the years I would reckon....

    several hundred easily. Over sixty in one night in 1986!
     
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    RE: Only that one tonight, but over the years I would reckon....

    WOW :)
     
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    bugger me. I have only ever seen 1.

    at 30 yo (oops. Let that one out) must be walking around with my eyes shut.
     
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    There was that night last year

    when scores of them all came down, one after the other. Every two minutes or so.
     
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