(meteorobs) Bunch of fireballs

Rainer Arlt rarlt at aip.de
Fri Sep 17 12:45:54 EDT 2010


I received this from a serious amateur astronomer in
Magdeburg, Germany:

"We were on our observing post last night and saw
6 bolides. 5 of them came roughly from Lyra,
Cygnus. All were of magnitude -8, some of them 
orange. [...]"

Is there any other observation of this unusual cluster
of fireballs?

Best regards,
Rainer

----- Forwarded message from jens briesemeister <Jens.Briesemeister at E-Technik.Uni-Magdeburg.DE> -----

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:10:34 +0200
From: jens briesemeister <Jens.Briesemeister at E-Technik.Uni-Magdeburg.DE>
To: rarlt at aip.de
Subject: Meteore gestern

Hallo Rainer,

wir waren gestern auf unserer Beobachtungsstation und konnten 6  
Boliden beobachten. 5 davon kamen aus der Ecke Lyra, Cygnus. Alle  
waren etwa -8 mag hell, zum Teil orange. Gibts es da ein Substrom?

15.09.2010 18:30-20:30 UTC
fst=5.5mag Magdeburg
[vgl. mit Iridiumflares]

cs und Gruß aus Magdeburg
Jens


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