On May 23, 4:03*pm, David Staup wrote:
On 5/23/2013 4:06 AM, Martin Brown wrote:



On 23/05/2013 09:46, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Thu, 23 May 2013 09:16:50 +0100, Martin Brown wrote:

The other thing it could have been although they are not normally quite
as bright as you have implied here are Iridium satellite flares.

Good point but they are very restricted on where they are visible
from. IIRC
the track is only a few miles wide at best and we have a couple of other
widely spaced reports of a similar event at the same time.

Yes. The brightness falls off very rapidly away from the ground track.
They are still quite fun if you get a -8 mag one. -12.5 is a fullmoon.

My only reason for suggesting it was the no smoke trail. Most really
bright meteors I have ever seen had one that persisted for a few seconds
and with a moonlit sky should have been seen for even longer.

IF the object was comming directly towards you and did not penatrate the
atmosphere to far you may not have seen the trail.

Silly boy. All meteorites come down at an hell of an angle, don't you
ever watch Hollywood films?

All except the ones that hit the moon of course -and those gianormous
craters that kill dinosaurs. They invariably fall very close to the
perpendicular. Everyone knows that. Even dinosaurs.