Anyone see this?....

"A large meteorite was spotted over Skidbrooke on Wednesday night, as well as other areas across the country. Tom Redmayne, of North Somercotes, called us to report his sighting, described as a ‘silent bright white fireball, becoming orange before disappearing’ which he saw for only around two seconds. Tom said he was looking out towards the North Sea at around 7.23pm when he saw the light. “It had one large body and about five or six smaller pieces falling away,” he said. “The smaller fragments disappeared first and the large piece was the last to go. “It fell at steep downward angle at about 40 degrees.” Tom reported his sighting online at lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.co.uk, and below his sighting was another from a Skidbrooke resident, Sarah Coulson, who saw a similar thing for ‘four or five seconds’. There were similar sightings at Boston, Sheffield, and even Durham and Blackburn."

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Jane

We're not far from Blackburn, and my little lad & me just happened to be playing with his telescope last night. I wish we'd seen it, but sadly we didn't.

I don't read up on these types of things. I know Durham & Blackburn, and both are populated areas, but with plenty of green, open spaces - don't know the other 2 places. How usual is it for something like this to happen and the meteorites not be located on the ground, do we know? I suppose it would depend on the sizes and number of eye-witnesses while they're falling?

Gilly wrote:
The only places where meteorites have a chance of being found is in desert areas, or the polar regions, the chances of them being found in temperate regions are very small, ie they are hard to find in forests, or woodlands.