Comments on: Meteor over South Africa 21 November 2009

By: Ignatius Ferreira

Ignatius Ferreira — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:35:06 +0000

Late evening of 21 Nov 2009, my wife and I was lying watching tv at our flat in Nelspruit Mpumalanga when my eye cought a bright light through our open sliding door. It was like a massive commit with a long tail lighting up the sky ! 30 min later my wife’s water broke and the next morning my 1st daugter ‘Faith’ was born. Her birth and my love for the universe and stars make this meteor very special to me !

By: Kendall

Kendall — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:31:52 +0000

Stay in Pretoria East. Never saw anything, only heard about it a week later…..

By: Nick Ligege

Nick Ligege — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:53:32 +0000

Hi I live in Pretoria, also saw it on Saturday. I had never seen anything like that in my life, I actually thought SA was under attack, but then again who would bomb us, we are good people ….

By: Carla Kennedy

Carla Kennedy — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:25:19 +0000

I’m sorry , I did miscalculate the maritime hours. The sighting my husband and I witnessed was actually 17:45. Sorry for the confusion!

By: Carla Kennedy

Carla Kennedy — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:39:47 +0000

Hi. My husband and I witnessed this meteor in the US. We are in Chicopee Ma. which is in the western part of the state. It occurred on Sat night here around 5:45 pm (16.45) We were having a campfire in the back yard and it seemed to fly right over our heads (really low). It was amazing!
PS to Brian the astronomer, We heard nothing but it was right over head and very low.

By: Rendani Nevhulaudzi

Rendani Nevhulaudzi — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:53:36 +0000

I was with a my girlfriend around, going to Sunnyside to pick up some, then all of sudden i saw the sky changed to blue then red,

I dint know what was happen because it happen so quick, but we i knew something was wrong

By: Rordon

Rordon — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:29:28 +0000

As I was out on Saturday night I missed but our CCTV caught the effects on a number of cameras. The best of which we have published on our front page for others to enjoy. Visit http://www.digicell.co.za the view is from the garden, camera faces roughly north and location is Midrand

By: brian

brian — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:31:37 +0000

Hi, I am an astronomer trying to determine the path of this meteor. I would like to ask all the people who actually saw the meteor (not behind clouds) to let me know where exactly they were, whether the meteor was east or west of them, roughly its altitude (“very low”, “about 30 deg”, “about 60 deg”, “almost overhead”) and whether they heard or felt an explosion or shock wave. please reply to brian.fraser@macsteel.co.za

By: Zandile Hlatshwayo

Zandile Hlatshwayo — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:26:57 +0000

I was @ work and it was amazing the speed the sound and the brightness, i knew it was not a shooting star and immediately i waited to hear that something bad had happened but found out a few hours later that it was a meteor, it was beautiful if you saw it you definitely know what im talking about, we had a few minutes of daylight again @ that hour…

By: Janette Potgieter

Janette Potgieter — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:24:44 +0000

in the Centurion area we were all standing outside and saw this greenish light..some guy thinking its the end of the world hehe and me telling them its a green flair someone shooted up in the ski..but yes this was very beautiful..its really looked like a flair..this green coming down and exploded and making a bright light over the area..never seen something this amazing.. :)