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Re: (meteorobs) FWD: mag=-13 wonderful !!! flare 80 degrees !





Pierre Martin ha scritto:

> Nico Lonetti wrote:
>
> >fantastic bolide yesterday at 20:12 local time.
> >Duration: 2 seconds.
> >Magnitude was more than full moon (about 16 degrees above horizon)
> >Estimate magnitude is: -13
> >Duration: 1-2 seconds
> >
> >here there is a map of meteor track
> >(attachment snipped...)
>
> This must have been very impressive!! Did you see a persistent
> train ? For me I've never seen any brighter than -7 or -8. And those
> were only seen during the peak of the Perseids shower. Do you think
> yours was a sporadic ? Or possibly related with one of the known (minor)
> meteor showers active at this time ?

the light of the sun to the sundown has darkened the trace of the meteor,
so I was not able to see a train.

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