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Re: (meteorobs) Spanish daylight meteor video



I don't read Dutch.  What in the world are we supposed to select in the 
"index" URL that you gave us to see the video?????

Marco Langbroek wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Check this out! On the Dutch TV journal website is a very fine amateur video
>of the Spanish daylight fireball of January 4th. Go to:
>
>http://www.omroepdot nl/nos/nieuws/index.html
>
>....and scroll down untill you get at "Spanjaarden schrikken van
>vuurballen". There you can get a streaming RealPlayer video.
>
>The video rules out both satellite debris and the Quadrantid stream. The
>first because the fireball is simply too fast and short in duration. The
>second because it can be seen to be high in the sky coming in under a steep
>angle, towards the setting sun (see shadow on building in the video). This
>rules out a Quadrantid, as the angle is too steep and the direction of
>movement the wrong way (the Quadrantid radiant was at a mere 12 degrees
>above the northwest horizon at that time). This is a sporadic fireball (and
>given its velocity possibly cometary of origin). I would think the meteor is
>too fast to make a surviving meteorite likely.
>
>- Marco (with thanks to Judith who put me to this video on the web)
>
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>Marco Langbroek
>Dutch Meteor Society
>Leiden, the Netherlands
>52.15896 N, 4.48884 E (WGS 84)
>
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