MBIQ Detects DAYTIME South Africa Bolide Fireball Meteor 12MAR2013

MBIQ  Detects DAYTIME South Africa Bolide Fireball Meteor 12:30:00 12MAR2013
Meteorites likely produced and on the ground!

South Africa Bolide 12MAR2013
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Contrary to SA News reports-
The object was NOT the size of a marble. This object was in the order of 10s-100s kg, maybe up to half the size of a VW bug or a full bug, to be seen in daytime and produce sonics.  Hopefully they will find a competent scientist to comment.  Since there was no fragmentation reported I suspect that it may be an iron meteoroid that entered the atmosphere.  I also suspect given the reports that we have a new meteorite to be found on the ground.  

Best,  Dirk Ross...Tokyo

SA NEWS finally two days after-

http://afrikaans.news24.com/Sci-tech/Nuus/Kapenaars-gons-oor-vuurbal-20130313

http://www.news24.com/Technology/News/Dont-panic-over-meteor-astronomer-20130313

http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/space/exploding-meteorite-seen-in-sa-sky-1.1485408

My Cell recordered the area as Mitchells Plain, but I was travelling from Ottery towards Athlone and spotted the meteor at corner of Ottery Road and Lansdowne Roads. It was amazing but a bit too late for a video it came down too fast and just suddenly there was a big ball of white smoke.
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Photo taken through car windscreen of smoke "cloud" from meteor near Malmesbury, SA
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Initial Sighting Reports-
12MAR2013 Hein Maij Tulbagh, Western Cape, South Africa 12h30 5 seconds E-W, facing South Bright white light then explosion Very white bright Could not see none

12MAR2013 Danni Cape Town 12:30:00 3-5secs N-S Bright Bright white Same as Sun no Bright burning thing shooting down

12MAR2013 Leon Coetzee Cape Town SA 12:45:00 5 sec S-W Briliant White Whitest White Like Spot light No Part falling off. Very big white ball with                              Very big white ball with long white tail About 10 to 15 km away. Then explosion. No more light just huge ball of smoke. Most amazing thing I have ever seen in my life. Very exited. Dont know why not on the news. Didn't  any  body else see it?????????      
                    
12MAR2013 Ray Lowe somerset west 12.3 10secs west-east bright red & white, lots of cloud no debris same sun none seen no photo

12MAR2013 Sandra Nortje Hermanus, Western Cape, South Africa about 12:25 GMT-2 3 seconds SW-NE A yellowish tail Less than the sun, more than the moon No Something of a split tail, brighter on the outsides than in the middle

I was driving from Montagu, SA to Ashton, SA and just 1km before Ashton, SA I saw this bright light on my right hand side. My eyes caught it immediately. It was this big fire ball coming down to earth with a lot of smoke at the end. I did told a people but they think I talk nonsense but on the other hand it was really really beautiful to see such a thing for 5 seconds. Thank you Jean Visser

25 plus Reports!
For all sighting reports, see-
http://thelatestworldwidemeteorreports.blogspot.jp/

MBIQ Data Set-
South Africa arrived from google.co.za on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News" by searching for news on "cloud" in the sky cape town 12 march 2013.
21:41:07 -- 29 minutes ago

Cape Town, Western Cape arrived from search.yahoo.com on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: South Africa Fireball Meteor 13FEB2013" by searching for meteorite in south africa.
21:45:20 -- 25 minutes ago

Boksburg, Gauteng arrived from google.co.za on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News" by searching for meteor spotted today .
21:48:16 -- 22 minutes ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng arrived from google.co.za on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News" by searching for news meteorite cape today.
21:48:25 -- 22 minutes ago

Philadelphia, Western Cape arrived from google.co.za on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News" by searching for meteor.
21:55:11 -- 16 minutes ago

Cape Town, Western Cape arrived from google.co.za on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News: South Africa Fireball Meteor 13FEB2013" by searching for meteorite news south africa.
22:00:54 -- 10 minutes ago

Cape Town, Western Cape arrived from google.co.za on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News" by searching for fireball sigting.
22:02:12 -- 9 minutes ago

Cape Town, Western Cape arrived from google.com on "Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News" by searching for explode meteor cape town 12 march 2013.
22:08:46 -- 3 minutes ago

2013 THE Year of Meteors, Asteroids, Comets, and MORE!!

Bolide over Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa 23AUG2011

Bolide Meteor over Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa 11:00 pm 23AUG2011

11 o'clock last night 23 August 2011, 

My neighbour and I saw, what can only be described as a bright ball of light, with a very smooth 

hill called Mount Rhodes at the northern end of Hout Bay, in Cape Town South Africa. We only saw a 2 to 3 seconds of it before brilliant blue tail shooting across the sky at a very low altitude. It seemed to have just vanished as it headed towards a little it disappeared.

Apologies for the quality of the image I through together, but its the closest I could get to represent what we saw.

Kind Regards, Victor Rogowski   Thank you Victor!  I appreciate the artwork!


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