[meteorite-list] Spanish fireball video

From: Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:31:58 2004
Message-ID: <01dd01c3d3a6$75d06790$47c6ea3e_at_HAL>

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.omroep.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 meteor 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).

This is a sporadic fireball (and given its velocity possibly
cometary of origin). I would also think the meteor is too fast to make a
surviving meteorite likely. Given the reported sonic booms it apparently did
penetrate deep though.

- Marco

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Marco Langbroek
Dutch Meteor Society
Leiden, the Netherlands
52.15896 N, 4.48884 E (WGS 84)

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Received on Mon 05 Jan 2004 11:09:56 AM PST