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

[Alex SV1NZX]

Good morning all

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-17248959

Best regards,
Alex

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Tony Markham
<tonymarkham832 at btinternet.com>wrote:

> Robert,
>
> The magnitudes shown in this table are very much at odds with those
> reported to the Meteor Section of the Society for Popular Astronomy. These
> are generally in the range of -4 to -10. Images of the fireball typically
> show it being bright initially and then becoming fainter towards the end.
> It seems to have been moving in a general north to south direction, with
> observers in Scotland and northern England seeing it best. By southern
> England it only reached about 30 deg altitude in the northern sky.
>
> Tony
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Robert Lunsford <lunro.imo.usa at cox.net>
> *To:* Meteor science and meteor observing <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> *Sent:* Monday, 5 March 2012, 5:24
> *Subject:* Re: (meteorobs) British bolide last night - some videos &
> reports
>
> 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
>
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