Following discussion with Tom (Wagner ) about the sighting I am now confident I saw a "VERY" bright meteor . Tom recalls seeing a couple of very bright Leonids in the past and his description matches my event exactly . We think that the lingering tail effect was possibly caused by the plasma trail . It's something I wont forget for quite a while. Marco mentioned it could have been a Taurid , and I reckon he was right.....and a big beastie at that . Mystery solved.....thank goodness :O) ............. and if nothing else , this will teach me to make sure I always have a pen and pad outside when observing so that I can make some notes. With the advent of the laptop , I discarded the pen and paper approach , of course in the darkness I couldnt see the laptopop keyboard clearly enough to go into wordpad to type in details of the observation....... a lesson learned ! Regards, John. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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