Astronomers are calling for help in finding a meteorite that's believed to have landed in the Ireland or the UK. Reports of a massive fireball in the sky in the early hours of Sunday morning could have been an object entering the atmosphere.
Excited astronomers are hot on the trail of a meteorite they believe may have struck Ireland on Saturday night. For a few seconds around midnight on Saturday, parts of the country were lit up "as if the sun had reappeared in the sky", Astronomy Ireland said last night.
Security cameras in Northern Ireland may shed some light on the cause of a massive fireball in the sky on Sunday. The shooting star was reported at about 1230 BST by people living as far apart as Donegal and Cork. David Moore chairman of Astronomy Ireland said they were fairly certain it was a rock from space which could have landed somewhere in Ireland.