(meteorobs) Strange meteor outburst story by the BBC

[Marco Langbroek]

Daniel Fischer schreef:
> Did anything unusual happen yesterday evening for 30 minutes, as the story
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8102331.stm suggests? "Real"
> visual observers and esp. video networks should have recorded something,
> according to the article from 20:30-21:00 UTC.
> 
> Daniel

Sounds like it could have been a single fireball. Discrepancies in reported 
times might account for the "30 minute duration", that is not so unusual with 
these kind of reports. The yachting crew's story seems to suggest a singular 
short duration event, i.e. a single fireball.

- Marco

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Dr Marco (asteroid 183294) Langbroek
Dutch Meteor Society (DMS)

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