(meteorobs) Possible daylight fireball caught on camera overMiddlesex, UK 14/04/10

Meteorites USA eric at meteoritesusa.com
Wed Apr 14 19:12:07 EDT 2010


Oh yeah... this is a obvious one... It's simply too fast to be a plane. 
Even a very close one.

Regards,
Eric

On 4/14/2010 4:06 PM, Meteorites USA wrote:
> Compared to the Great Daylight Fireball it's almost exact speed. I don't
> see much difference in speed at all. The reason you don't see smoke is
> some kind of filtering on the video.
>
> Compare these:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1WKd8tWlto
>
> And This:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUyoDkp30-U&NR=1
>
> These are two videos taken of the exact same fireball at different
> distances. Hence the reason they appear to be at different speeds.
>
> The Middlesex video show a fireball that is MUCH further away, and they
> camera is using filtering (Sepia?) and that is obscuring the smoke train.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGfnMGisImo
>
> This is an Earthgrazer and is now probably a fusion crusted asteroid if
> it left our atmosphere.
>
> Regards,
> Eric
>
> On 4/14/2010 3:20 PM, Jason Utas wrote:
>    
>> Hello All,
>> Compared to other videos of fireballs, that body is moving *very* slowly.
>> Also note the lack of a distinct head/tail and any fragmentation.
>> None of these facts would rule it out as a fireball, but if it is one,
>> it would have to be a very strange, slow-moving one...that doesn't
>> leave a smoke train on a fairly clear day.
>> Regards,
>> Jason
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Marco Langbroek
>> <marco.langbroek at wanadoo.nl>   wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Op 14-4-2010 22:02, Roberto G. schreef:
>>>
>>>        
>>>>> From: "LEO STACHOWICZ"<l.stachowicz at btinternet.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>>
>>>>          
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I came across footage of what appears to be a daytime fireball over the UK
>>>>> on Easter
>>>>> Sunday just gone. The footage seems to be genuine and taken in an "IR
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>>>> mode" or
>>>>>>
>>>>>>              
>>>>> with an "IR filter".
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGfnMGisImo
>>>>>
>>>>> Clear skies,
>>>>> Leo
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> I think that it's a genuine record, of that? I think of a meteor
>>>> event, perharps too a satellite rentry.
>>>> Best greetings.
>>>> Roberto Gorelli
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Actually, I think it is an aircraft. You can hear the sound of the engine, with
>>> doppler effect, especially in the snd part of the footage.
>>>
>>> - Marco
>>>
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>>>
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