(meteorobs) 2 fireballs in 24 hours in Greece

Grigoris Maravelias gr.maravelias at gmail.com
Thu Dec 12 06:22:53 EST 2013


Indeed the second event within a few weeks ... I didn't notice anything 
so far (apart from your mails!)

Grigoris

On 12/12/2013 12:33 PM, Roberto Gorelli wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 11:59:43 +0200
>    Alex Daskalakis<sw1nzx at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi good morning all
>>
>> I was reading the news (i am out of country at the moment) and i
>> have read
>> about 2 fireball reportings, one in the vicinity of Athens and
>> another in
>> Zakynthos in the past 24 hours. The media report (overexaggerating,
>> as
>> usual) about meteorite drops....
>>
>> There seems to be photo evidence of the initial flash, 8:30am in
>> Patra:
>> http://news247.gr/eidiseis/koinonia/duo_metewrites_xtuphsan_attikh_kai_zakyntho.2547920.html
>> Rough translation - the object had a long train, remained in view
>> for 20s
>> before disappearing out of sight
>>
>> If anyone else has any news about this (any Greeks who have any
>> other
>> information or possibly Italian residents in the south), it would be
>> good
>> to share.
>>
>> Thanks and best regards,
>> Alex
> It's the second fireball saw from Zakynthos in the last two weeks
> after that of 27 november.
> Until now not witness from southern Italy.
> Best greetings.
> Roberto Gorelli
>
>
>
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