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Started as an intense 'tungsten-light-white' orb around one third the apparent size of a full moon and of greater brightness than the moon, apparently moving very slowly (compared with 'normal meteor'), extending into a continuous persisting band of bright orange tail. Half way through the event (say 5 seconds in) two or three distinct new brighter and whiter areas appeared behind the 'head' and again persisted as part of ots 'tail' for a second or two,presumably as theobject broke up. After about 9 seconds the 'head' became semi-obscured by a small patch of thin cloud, the light from the head still bright enough to illuminate the cloud. I have seen numerous meteors before (I frequently offshore sail in long-distance yacht races) but never a meteor fireball such as this, or was it disintigrating space debris? |
