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Sussex Residents Share Footage Of Meteor With Met Office

The meteor (left) and an aeroplane (right) in Peckham, southeast London. Pic: Daz Bradbury (Published by Sky News)

Sussex residents shared their footage on Twitter and with The Met Office last night as a meteor travelled across UK skies.

In a tweet, the Met Office confirmed reports of the meteor - asking anyone who managed to spot it to share footage.

Twitter user, @PHILDEL, who witnessed the meteor from Horsham, West Sussex, wrote that it moved slowly across the sky with a really long tail.

They wrote: "Longest and largest meteorite sighting I've ever experienced!"

 

 

Twitter users all over the UK replied to The Met Office with confirmation of sightings and footage, some showing an orange fireball.

The meteor coincided with the Start Me Up mission during which a modified Boeing 747 named Cosmic Girl took off from Newquay Airport with a 21m LauncherOne rocket attached to its wing. 

Unfortunately the mission was unsuccessful with organisers describing an 'anomaly' as the cause of the rocket's failure to reach orbit.

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