RE: (meteorobs) bright fireball 7/4/2002

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• Subject: RE: (meteorobs) bright fireball 7/4/2002
• From: "Os, Daniel van" <dvos@Strukton.com>
• Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 13:14:43 +0200
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I've been trying to follow the events in Germany. First reports mentioned
that streaks of light had been seen for some 30 seconds, while others
mentioned fireballs. Munchen airport thought a fireball came to the ground
near a runway but an inspection revealed nothing.

Later the first explanations came: maybe debris from the pegasus rocket, but
NASA said that was not possible. The re-entry had not taken place yet (it
did later during the day above China/Tibet). The Deutches Wetterdienst even
told it was probably debris from comet Ikeya-Zhang. A statement which they
later withdrew.

Then the report came that a farmer had recovered a bit of a meteorite in her
land. Further information about the recovery is lacking.

Over the weekend several fireball sightings have been reported in Europe
(Germany, The Netherlands and UK).

Daniel



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