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Clear skies,
Lew Gramer <owner-meteorobs@atmob.org>
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Possibly 3 fireballs over Europe on 6-7 April
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 07:44:44 -0700 (PDT)
"Marco Langbroek" wrote
>Now starts to look like there might have been THREE large fireballs over
>west Europe on the night of 6-7 April. The Bayern event was reportedly at
>~20:30 UTC, the Dutch/Belgian North Sea event at 0:28 UTC and the Scottish
>event at ~3:45 UTC. That is, if there is no mistake in the time given for
>either the Dutch/Belgian or Scottish reports and these are not one and the
>same object.
>
>Note the seeming regularity of approx. 4 hours in between each appearance.
>One could perhaps think of fragments of some fragmenting satellite or rocket
>booster re-entering for an extended period along its orbit (this is just my
>suggestion), although Alan Pickup's Decay Watch page does not give a clear
>candidate.
A new, or perhaps unknown meteoroid stream?
It is odd that three large bolides would be observed on
the same date and spaced about 4 hrs apart.
Then there is the odd coincidence of two of the three
observed SNC meteorites falling on the same date Oct.
3rd. Cassigny and Zagami.
Got me to wonder if the Oct 3rd 1996 Bolide over S.
California, ending over Little Lake was not an SNC...
The meteorites according to what I know of it, and
having looked in the Little Lake area should have
fallen in the northwestern section of the China Lake
military base. I wonder if they would allow a search?
Now that would be something...
Steve Schoner.
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