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

[Mike Hankey]

Observers,

I updated Bob's post about this fireball with a witness map.

Whenever I hear UK fireball I think about wet meteorites, but looking
at these reports its possible this may have made landfall NW of
London.

There were several fragmentation & sonic boom reports.

Here is the witness map:

http://www.amsmeteors.org/2012/03/fireball-over-the-united-kingdom-march-3-2012/

Thanks,

Mike

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Robert Lunsford <lunro.imo.usa at cox.net> wrote:
> 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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