Meteor sighted across UK (tweet-heavy thread)

[Emrys]

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At least 60 fireball sightings have come in from southern Scotland to Cardiff and London tonight:

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Some folks were a bit spooked:

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[elleng]

1. WOW!

[Blue Owl]

2. That's no meteor you idiots, it's a Jewish Space Laser

Marjorie Taylor Greene said so

[Hoyt]

3. Gotta get one of those doorbell cameras.

[Emrys]

4. It got very confusing putting this OP together because there was also a major sighting on the 22nd,

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and some folks tweeting didn't check the dates out, so were reporting on the earlier meteor sightings.

As a consolation, I found this tweet from 24 February, which is too good not to share:

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Pareekh Jain
@pareekhjain
A beautiful meteor photo.

Daniel Kordan accidentally caught this meteor on photo while trying to photograph an erupting volcano.

#EIIRInteresting #meteor
Credit: Daniel Kordan, ViaWeb

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Clearly, the last tweet is a Spider from Mars that came on the meteor (nt)

[Emrys]

6. Because the meteor fragmented over land, pieces of it may be recovered:

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SCAMP - a component of the FRIPON network
@SCAMP_Meteors

Last night's #fireball may have dropped meteorites near Cheltenham to Stow-on-the-Wold. More detail below, and we'll update the strewn field as we refine the calculations #meteor #meteorite @UKMeteorNetwork @FireballsUK @CardiffCurator @EarthSolarSystm

SCAMP - a component of the FRIPON network
@SCAMP_Meteors

Here's roughly where we think meteorites may have landed.

More here, including a map of the reported sightings: https://ukmeteornetwork.co.uk/news/fireball-meteor-28-february-2021/