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Magnitude -20 meteor witnessed in the daylight skies over Croatia [PICTURE]
dnevnik.hr — Link is in Croatian, but has picture and video. This photo makes the rest of the sky look dark in comparison!
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- mdjohnson1, on 10/10/2007, -26/+2Wow !!
I for one would like to welcome our new Croatian based overlords.- benitojuarez, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7We're sorry, you seem to be on the wrong interweb site. Please check your address bar and attempt your witty comment again.
- kkeith02, on 10/10/2007, -3/+20That almost looked like a movie trailer - I bet it's for monstrous
- domomike, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10It's not called Monstrous! The poster that said "Monstrous" on it had many different versions that said different things as the title.
The movie is called Cloverfield... Or Slusho... Or Untitled JJ Abrahs Project... Or 1-18-08.
Source: http://www.cloverfieldnews.com/2007/07/27/monstrous-terrifying-barbarous-ferocious/ - themastersb, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1It's Godzilla!!!!
- pyry, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Probably because it isn't real. www.spaceweather.com says the photos are mockups made by artists, instead everyone got excited and thought they were real.
- domomike, on 10/10/2007, -1/+10It's not called Monstrous! The poster that said "Monstrous" on it had many different versions that said different things as the title.
- aldenhg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+40Sweet Jesus that last shot was awesome. Can you imagine looking up and seeing a huge meteor split practically right above you? I'd probably poo myself.
- tehpwnrate, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1Or goo yourself... :D
- Ysaric, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1I don't know the language the newscaster was speaking, but I believe you translated it pretty accurately--"Today, all of Croatia crapped its pants." I'm with you--I would have too.
- ilkeryoldas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7What's wrong with the comment system? I posted this below but got lost:
Funny how this looks "almost" like the same meteor that appeared in Mexico about a year ago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mbA606ZRWI- mhanley, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Indeed, it does... even similar how it was photographed, as it passed out of view behind a building.
- Cl1mh4224rd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5And that's not even a meteor; it's a space shuttle re-entry. Seriously. This has been on Digg's front page THREE TIMES. Each time it was wrongly claimed to be a meteor.
I should add that the news station is probably just reusing footage of the re-entry over Mexico for their story. They've obviously CG'd the other clips, so... it wouldn't surprise me. - sneeka2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It doesn't only look similar, it's the same freaking video! The same freaking video that's been on the intertubes for at least a year. Talk about some news agency picking up some FREAKING OLD INTERNET VIDEO AND INVENTING A STORY FOR IT.
Buried as inaccurate.- madhaha, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1sneeka2 by day, Captain Obvious by night...
- robertgoodwin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I actually witnessed a similar meteor 20 years ago when I was in college. I was driving on an overcast afternoon, and a bright flash suddenly lit up the sky all around. It was very noticeable although I didn't have a direct line of site to the meteor. The initial flash reflected off the hood of my car. I then leaned forward to look up through the windshield and saw an extremely bright meteor streaking east to west across the sky. I later found out that others witnessed a more south to north traversal, so apparently the flash that initially got my attention was the splitting of the meteor. It was one of the most awesome things I ever saw!
- ramong, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Yikes, that's some scary "war of the worlds" stuff!
- therippa, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3svet isprdak!
- kprooney, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1it's viral lol
- chobbney, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Did you really laugh out loud then?
Thought not.
- chobbney, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Did you really laugh out loud then?
- thorbergdt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23It was probably the space junk the astronauts threw off the station the other day!
- hokie47, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Yeah all their beer cans
- Tobark, on 10/10/2007, -2/+31Thats no meteor! Thats a space station (toilet).
- antifreze, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14dugg - for reference to a show that got canceled before it's time.
- chimaera2005, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2or someone referencing a movie referencing a tv show that got canceled before it's time.
- generalsticky, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Yeah! Dead Like Me pwns! Rent it on Netfilx now people!
- petoria, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Poor Georgia :(
- antifreze, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14dugg - for reference to a show that got canceled before it's time.
- expat001, on 10/10/2007, -16/+3I can't read Spanish though :(
- billessig, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8OMFG... It's Croatian.
- expat001, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Really?
- aldenhg, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Really.
- jtb4, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Is Not! It's Spanish dammit.
- expat001, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2Really?
- qw3r7yju4n, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1uhhh yeah its spanish.... RTFHeadline
- billessig, on 10/10/2007, -3/+8OMFG... It's Croatian.
- Phomeister, on 10/10/2007, -15/+1Old story, it was the space shuttle reentering.
- JonnyTrombone, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Its four days old. Any link for the space shuttle story?
- zadadka, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4wrong.
- chimaera2005, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1english? translation? sorry i'm not up on my .hr reading skills and babelfish doesn't know what it is. :)
- tossayo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15team rocket's blasting off again!
- rboyce, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I LOLed.
- cusoman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Excuse me while I claw my eyes out.
- MetaMars, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Yeah...hoping for some coverage of this in english...and some impact shots if it actually hit.
- t1m0j5, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2sorry we can't always adapt to your needs
- t1m0j5, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2sorry we can't always adapt to your needs
- awesomefabulous, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1where did it end up?
- masfenix, on 10/10/2007, -13/+0Yea that is amazing. Although Is it proved that its a metoir? And not something else?
Also does haveone have a translated version of the article?
http:///www.fakebets.net - krakhed, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6I love the fact that you get several different videos of the meteor usually you only get one.
- Flashman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1They're all different meteors. I doubt that any of them is the one that people actually saw, or they would replay it. This is all just file footage.
- freezerburn666, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1that was freakin amazing... looks like something straight from the movies when it was splitting up, i'm surprised movies were so accurate
- sensor, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1Looks so fake, at least the video where 3 people are posing and the camera shakes up to film the meteorite.
- teh_techie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Right, cuz you wouldn't rather take the opportunity to shoot the meteor than a group of friends/family?
- sensor, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1Ehm that is NOT what I meant and you know it. Don't be an asshole.
- diggdallas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1ha ha...you keep getting dugg down. sucks to be you
- sensor, on 10/10/2007, -4/+1Ehm that is NOT what I meant and you know it. Don't be an asshole.
- teh_techie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Right, cuz you wouldn't rather take the opportunity to shoot the meteor than a group of friends/family?
- tapedelay, on 10/10/2007, -2/+31What if that meteor was the beginning of a blinding shower that covered the whole world and caused everyone who witnessed it to lose their sight and suddenly these plant creatures showed up that could uproot themselves and be mobile that had deadly poison stingers who preyed on the blind and the world's rebuilding was left up to small bands of people that retained their sight?
- 2k3john, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Then I suppose they'd couldn't run around with their heads up their asses
- djfrey, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0I think you nailed it. Release date for "The Invasion" - August 17th.
http://theinvasionmovie.warnerbros.com/ - teh_techie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Little Shop of Horrors?
- GeeKman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Well, every one here on digg would be fine, as we tend to stay inside any ways.
- sabach, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Geez, he's talking about "Day of the Triffids"
- MNEVENFLOW, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Did you have to look that up? Or did you know to use ***** as a weapon?
- cfsynergydotcom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Mmmmm. Triffid oil....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids
- needleboy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1OMG!
Triffids!
My favorite book when I was little!
- scubadiving, on 10/10/2007, -5/+0quidditch incident ? or just me not speaking foreign technobabble...
- Todesengelvr6, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2At the very end of the video you can see it break apart, pretty sweet!
- geezas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1really? haven't noticed until you said it. Lemmy go back and watch again...
- hydrodigger, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1I think I have seen this picture before, but in a video. May be recycled.
- sensor, on 10/10/2007, -7/+2Looks so fake... at least the part where 3 people are posing and the camera shakes up to film the meteorite.
- Lister169, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Jiminy Cricket!
- expat001, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1It's all Clinton's fault.
- extratired, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2one dumb comment per story isn't enough for you?
- djfrey, on 10/10/2007, -6/+1I think this must be fake - the footage seems inconsistent and there's something very phony-looking about the contrails or whatever you'd call them. I think if something like that was that close to the ground it'd be hauling a lot more ass too.
- teh_techie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Terminal Velocity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_velocity
Maybe? - bg86, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0terminal velocity doesn't apply, as it's being fired at the planet at thousands of miles an hour
- teh_techie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Terminal Velocity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_velocity
- Lister169, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"I wonder how much they'd pay for it up at the college."
- pcp777, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Is this real? Awesome video...almost too awesome...
- quakerorts, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Would like to have seen that at night.
- 3leggedHorse, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Fake the first one has been on digg before.
- Izacus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Seen it... was awesome :)
- sjbdallas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3FTA: Eksplozija se čula u Samoboru i dijelu Zagreba, a podrhtavanje tla osjetilo se čak u Karlovcu.
Couldn't have said it better myself.- czar13, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2It means, " The explosion was heard in Samobor and parts of Zagreb, and the meteor was visible as far as karlovac
- diggdallas, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I thought that meant "Live from New York...It's Saturday Night!"
- 3leggedHorse, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14http://youtube.com/watch?v=8mbA606ZRWI check out the date on youtube and that is in Mexico.
- shm0edawg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"Arhivska fotografija" means stock photo. They never claimed it was that meteor. The picture is actually from the meteor in Mexico, but the video footage is from Croatia.
- ilkeryoldas, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8Funny how this looks "almost" like the same meteor that appeared in Mexico about a year ago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mbA606ZRWI
- darrin2k, on 10/10/2007, -3/+2Wow is just about the only thing I can say! Looks to me like a near miss. Could it be a precursor to something larger? Does anyone else feel the same?
- bg86, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0Precursor to something larger? Usually the biggest pieces come first. Not sure what you mean, though.
- Cozmcphish, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Man, I can't wait till "Cloverfield" comes out
- SonicBoom1000, on 10/10/2007, -2/+2It's actually a hoax...that comet is not real, and is just viral marketing for the new J.J. Abrahams movie.
- sjbdallas, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1You might not be too far off. If you look at the ad displayed on the right hand side, one of the items for sale (or won in a contest, i don't speak the language) is for the Lost season 1 DVD.
- Aaronontheweb, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Man if that's true, props to him...
- ramallama, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well based on the 'Ads by Google' on this page, I'm gonna take a wild guess the .hr is Croatia
- Flashman, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Croatia = Hrvatskom
- novakane, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1JJ Abrhams.... you are brilliant!
- nsomneia, on 10/10/2007, -3/+0CLOVERFIELD !! !
- eh270, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1That language sounds really weird.
- sjbdallas, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2listen to it underwater and it will make sense
- irgeek, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Amazing video. Not fake. Big bolides like this more common than u may think. I have seen a few, but nothing like this! This site has some good bolide pix/videos: http://fireball.meteorite.free.fr/index_en.html including the one back in 1992 that ended up smashing some lady's car. Seems like I recall hearing that she made a fortune selling the car to researchers.
- sabach, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I saw one at least that big when I was 9 or 10, it was so bright that it washed out the drive-in theater screen, it was like daylight for 10 seconds.
- BIGMEX, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0Wouldn't it be funny as hell if this WAS NOT viral marketing?
But on the other side I fell for the fake news about "Giants" skeletons being uncovered on the beach. - spawnof, on 10/10/2007, -2/+0you'd think if this was real the people filming it would have RUN AROUND THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BUILDING once it broke line of sight...
I call shenenigans - feralcats, on 10/10/2007, -3/+1Here's the simplified translation: Meteor pao pokraj Samobora? = Meteor WTF??
Nešto je palo! = WTF!! - feralcats, on 10/10/2007, -5/+1Here's the simple translation: Meteor pao pokraj Samobora? = WTF??
Nešto je palo! = WTF!! - mazhurg, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5From spaceweather.com: "SUPER-BOLIDE: On Wednesday, July 25th at approximately 10:00 UT, "a major daylight fireball tore across the skies of Slovenia, Croatia and Italy," reports veteran meteor observer Jure Atanackov of Maribor, Slovenia. "It produced two bright flashes that reached an estimated magnitude of -20 and also loud sonic booms." Magnitude -20? In plain language, the meteor was 600 times brighter than a full Moon. Eyewitnesses, please report your sightings to Jure Atanackov or colleague Javor Kac who are gathering data to learn more about this extraordinary meteor and to estimate possible landing sites."
- pyry, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Also note the part where they say this picture is not real.
- rob357, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0drunk shuttle re-entry?
- itsbradman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Quick, get Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck, we gotta stop that thing and all the other astronauts are drunk!!
- dakboy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Just gotta hope Ben doesn't fall off the wagon again.
- ruslanr, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2This actually happened in Mexico last year.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=8mbA606ZRWI- irgeek, on 10/10/2007, -1/+0Good catch. I wonder what, if any of the video on the newscast was actually of the one in Croatia as opposed to archival footage of other bolides?
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