[meteorite-list] Fireball Seen From Germany, Belgium

From: Martin <Martin_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:32:05 2004
Message-ID: <009101c3e109$feb90740$fd73ebd9_at_9y6y40j>

There are already track and brightness data?
Or how could the ESA-man predict, that the meteorite will have a size of
10 - 50cm?

Martin A.

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From: "Ron Baalke" <baalke_at_zagami.jpl.nasa.gov>
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Fireball Seen From Germany, Belgium


>
>
>
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=19&story_id=3903
>
> Great balls of fire, its a meteorite!
> expatica.com (Holland)
> 22 January 2004
>
> AMSTERDAM - A large number of star gazers claim to have seen a large
fireball shoot
> through cloud cover on Wednesday night in what experts believe was a
meteorite falling to
> earth.
>
> The Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) said the fireball probably took place
somewhere above
> the Belgian-German border in Wallonia. It was seen in Limburg, eastern
Belgium and
> Germany, Dutch news agency ANP reported.
>
> The Leiden-based DMS also said the fireball was most probably due to a
meteorite and
> ruled out the possibility that it was a broken fragment of a satellite or
a rocket. A
> society spokesman based the claim on information supplied by US aerospace
agency Nasa.
>
> But a lack of hard and fast facts regarding the fireball means it is
difficult to
> determine if fragments fell to earth. It is assumed that the meteorite
burned up
> in the earth's atmosphere before hitting the ground.
>
> Dozens of sightings were lodged with star watch association Exploirion,
based in the
> southern Dutch city of Heerlen, Besides sightings in Limburg, Belgium,
Germany and
> even residents of the northern Dutch city of Groningen said they saw the
spectacle.
>
> Meteorites usually burn up in the earth's atmosphere and Wednesday night's
fireball was
> created about 60 to 100km above the earth's surface. German news agency
DPA said the
> rock probably did not hit the earth's surface.
>
> A researcher with the European Space Agency (ESA) in Darmstadt, Germany,
said the
> meteorite would have been about 10cm to 50cm in size.
>
>
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