[meteorite-list] Bright fireball over Estonia

From: Jarmo Moilanen <jarmom_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:02:29 2004
Message-ID: <001f01c1cc2d$9133cbd0$2b9bedc3_at_impact>

Hello,

This morning a bright meteor was observed over a large area in southern
Finland (15 March 2002 at 3.00 UT ±2 minutes). Meteor was very bright and
almost as big as the moon according to one observer. It also has fiery tail.
It was visible 5 - 10 seconds and lots of fragmentation happens in the end
of the flight. Fireball direction was from east to west and it was flying
very much horizontally according to some observers and some reports says
that it descent a little bit during the flight. No sounds have been reported
so far.

It seems that the meteor fly over Estonia toward W or WNW direction.
Unfortunately, if something came down, it seems probable that it fell in
Baltic sea.

Jarmo Moilanen
Received on Fri 15 Mar 2002 09:26:59 AM PST