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Pieces of asteroid may have landed across west Highlands, say experts

Steven McKenzie

BBC Scotland Highlands and Islands Reporter

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According to Ukmon, meteorite pieces may have landed in Nevis

The network, which started in 2012 and contains more than 200 amateur astronomers, uses observations, caught images and computer programs to calculate orbits to understand where meteorites landed.

@Adriancoll1 a meteor burning in the night sky, with a small dark tree patch in the lower right corner of the frame@adriancoll1

Meteor was detected on Thursday

Landscapes of the small meteor were made after midnight.

Ukmon said that potential places for meteorites could be around Nevis, the highest mountain of England.

Toni Hanlon told BBC Scotland News that he felt his house in nearby Fort William Shake.

“My husband and my children slept.”

With Ray Whyte Ray, Georgie and Rocky.Ray whyte

Ray WHYTE, who was depicted with her daughter Georgie and her dogs Rocky, worked in Glen Nevis when asteroid appeared

While Ray Whyte was startled by Meteor, I was working in Glen Nevis near Nevis, while his dog remained in a static caravan with his rocky.

He said: “I couldn’t sleep after a difficult day, so I got up for a coffee.

“Me and the dog wrapped our skin with an explosion.

“I missed the light when the curtains were drawing, but all static swinging as a drum was used as a drum, or a vehicle hit the side.

“He left us quite scared and mixed.”

‘Darkness is going’

Ukmon said that when the meteor entered the world atmosphere, he traveled about 12.427mph (at 20.000km / s.

Before the “dark” was burning as brightly as the full moon.

Wind and other weather data and information collected by the UK Fireball Alliance are used to help work where meteorites land.

Ukmon urged Hillwalkers to look at the meteorite pieces and advised them on the website. How to define space rock.

However, the organization said that the presence of meteors would be difficult in a large mountain and Glens region.

Winchcombe Meteorit was the first to be found in the UK for 30 years.

Experts said that rock has traveled millions of years before reaching Earth.

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