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Lucy on 22/12/2024 8:24pm
Saw a big meteor across Awatere valley around 11:45pm heading north.
22/12/24
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lily on 21/12/2024 4:35am
Saw a meteor, very bright and quick in the south island around 2 am Thursday the 19th of December. looked really close
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Paul Thompson on 13/12/2024 9:35am
Just saw a meteor heading SW over Otahuhu!! Amazing, long continous streak then broke up. Incredible
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Cherie on 10/12/2024 11:06am
Saw to Meteors tonight,so cool how lucky was I to see. 11:45pm West Auckland 11/12/24
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Sue on 4/12/2024 4:38pm
Bright orange burning meteor or asteroid from East to North seen from Whangaparaoa North Auckland around 9.30 or 10pm Weds 4th December. Only visible for about 4 seconds. Very bright and could clearly see the burning flames and breaking up of the rock into pieces. Very low and shallow angle. Burnt up completely but was pretty low over land by then by the looks of it.
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Adela on 4/12/2024 8:44am
White fire ball, green colour around and a blue tail. Seen from Marchwiel, Timaru, facing south. It moved from west to east. Around 10pm on 3rd of December. Impresive, seemed to be very close
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Mel on 3/12/2024 9:59am
Green streak/line of light tracked south east direction an fizzled out over tinwald ashburton. Impressive around 10pm tue 3rd dec 24
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Kirstyn on 3/12/2024 9:14am
Saw what looked to be a small green light that moved fast through the sky for a few seconds and disappeared behind some mountains. Saw near Cromwell facing North East at roughly 10pm.
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Cathy Fitzsimons on 3/12/2024 9:07am
At approx 9:50pm, 1950h, on otago peninsula looking east and saw a fireball with tail tracking from the south to due north for maybe 3-4 seconds, it flared larger into a flame like ball and then broke up and disappeared. The tail had little sparks in it.
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Sue on 4/12/2024 4:45pm
Sounds exactly like what I saw last night (24 hrs later). Biggest I’ve ever seen. Could be part of early Geminids. I posted my details above.
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