(meteorobs) Fwd: [IMO-News] Daylight Fireball over the UK

[Lew Gramer]

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Clear skies!
Lew Gramer

--- André Knöfel <andre.knoefel at dwd.de> wrote:
> To: IMO-News mailing list <imo-news at yahoogroups.com>
> From: André Knöfel <andre.knoefel at dwd.de>
> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:10:30 +0000
> Subject: [IMO-News] Daylight Fireball over the UK
> 
> In the last hours I received some reports of a daylight fireball in the UK.
> 
> Date. 2005-02-20
> Time: 09:55...09:58 UT
> reports from
> Richard White - Monmouth (Wales)
> Ian Sleight - Stafford
> Stephen Burt - Stratfield Mortimer (West Berkshire)
> Karl Hibbert - Dunkeswell (Devon)
> Peter Thomson - Bovey Tracey (Devon)
> Path from south to nortwest
> 
> "Bright sunny morning, blue sky, when something caught my eye out of the
> window.
> An extremely bright trail, white like magnesium with sparks in its trail of
> yellow and blue."
> 
> "I was talking on my mobile phone and looking in the western sky
> approximately 280 degrees towards some Poplar trees when I saw a large
> blue-green object with a white core travel towards 290 degrees the events
> lasted about 4 seconds. Starting elevation approx 35 degrees finishing
> elevation 30 degrees. Speed approximation = medium."
> 
> "A few seconds before 0955 UTC today, Sunday 20 February I saw what appeared
> to be a very bright daylight fireball streak low across the western sky. It
> first caught my eye as a flash of green, and for an instant I thought it was
> a flash of sunlight off a turning aircraft. It brightened and moved very
> rapidly and developed a short intensely bright vividly iridescent green
> trail. It lasted no more than 2 seconds, maybe 3. The trail started about
> 250„a azimuth and ended at 270-275„a, at an elevation of perhaps 6-8
> degrees above the horizon.
> 
> "Very visible in bright sunshine, incredible colours as it broke up,never
> seen anything like it in my life."
> 
> "Object appeared brilliant against clear blue sky in bright sunlight.
> Fragments were also brilliant and clearly separated.
> No trail of any sort visible in sky after event.
> Another witness confirmed colour as blue green and very bright."
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
> André Knöfel
> Fireball Data Center
> International Meteor Organization
> 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/imo-news.


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Lew Gramer <dedalus at alum.mit.edu>


		
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