(meteorobs) British bolide last night - some videos & reports

[Robert Lunsford]

The American Meteor Society has so far received approximately 125 reports of this fireball over the United Kingdom. This event occurred near 21:40  GMT (9:40pm) on Saturday evening March 3rd. Reports of many different colors of this object have been received, with orange being most mentioned.  The average brightness reported by witnesses was in excess of the light produced by a full moon. This fireball lasted an extraordinary long time, up to 20 seconds as reported by some observers. 

Summaries of this event may be seen in the AMS Fireball table for 2012 at:

http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball2/public.php?start_date=2012-01-01&end_date=2012-12-31

Refer to event #322.

Clear Skies!

Robert Lunsford
American Meteor Society


---- dfischer at astro.uni-bonn.de wrote: 
> Haven't seen anything here about a bolide over the U.K. last night that's
> causing lots of media attention over there:
> http://skyweek.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/brillianter-bolide-betorte-beeindruckte-briten
> compiles some videos and links to all the news stories I have located.
> Little detailled information yet though one report contains a '-9 mag.'
> estimate.
> 
> Dan