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Irish Fireball

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The Republic of Ireland's National Museum is offering a cash reward to anyone who finds the meteorite that was spotted last week.
Meteorites are worth their weight in gold and can command six-figure sums.
The glowing fireball, travelling at speeds of 100,000mph, was spotted shortly after midnight on Monday, August 22, by hundreds of people from Cork to Belfast and all along the east coast, according to David Moore, chairman of Astronomy Ireland.
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Meteor hunt begins after fireball lands 'on west of Ireland'

Astronomers are appealing for eyewitness accounts of the fireball that blazed across Irish skies last week, as it emerged it is likely to have landed somewhere in the north-west.
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Meteor sparks a treasure hunt

Treasure hunters have been encouraged to seek the fragments of a meteor that is believed to have fallen on Irish soil.
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Meteorites Possible From Irish Fireball

Astronomy Ireland (AI) has confirmed that a fireball meteor entered the atmosphere above Ireland in the early hours of Tuesday morning (23 August 2011).
The organisation added that meteor fragments are likely to have reached the surface but it remains unclear at this stage if the impact occurred overland or in the Atlantic Ocean.
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