[meteorite-list] Re: Fireball News Article from Finland

From: Göran Axelsson <axelsson_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu May 19 20:17:35 2005
Message-ID: <428D2D8E.1000306_at_acc.umu.se>

According to a reliable source inside IRF they are working on the
infrasound data to get the coordinates for the meteorite.
If I hear anything new I'll post it.

/G?ran


Robert Verish wrote:

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>
>Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 15:56:47 +0300
>From: "Lyytinen Esko" <Esko.Lyytinen_at_MINEDU.FI>
>To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum"
>Cc: marko.pekkola_at_ursa.fi
>
>Subject: RE: Fireball News Article from Finland
>
>Hi,
>
>Yes we really had a very bright fireball yesterday
>evening at about 19.23 UT.
>
>The URSA meteor section has received quite a big
>number of reports and more is coming.
>
>The Sun was just about setting at the the region of
>the observations and it was very remarkable in spite
>of the lightness. It was cloudy here in Southern
>Finland and so I could not capture it in my
>fireball-camera.
>
>We have received one photograph of the smoke trail
>that peristed for 45 minutes (maybe till the Sun got
>too down to illuminate it). There also exists a video
>of the smoke trail, but the recoreder has not yet
>submitted it.
>
>According to my quick lookup, this seems to be clearly
>visible in the Swedish infrasound data from
>http://www.umea.irf.se/maps/index.php
>Uppsala and Lycksele .
>
>It appears to have entered from somehere South-East
>with an entry angle of maybe 30 degrees from horizon
>and lasted maybe from 5 to 10 seconds.
>So the entry velocity seems to have been relatively
>slow.
>According to one (of the most nearby observers it
>exploded into small pieced that ended in less than a
>second from the explosion.)
>The pieces quite clearly landed ouside the Finnish
>border, into the Russian side, maybe by about/more
>than 100km:s, according to the infrared locator.
>
>I expect that Markku Nissinen will put the smoke
>trail-figure into the URSA meteor section web-site,
>but this has not yet been done.
>
>Esko
>
>
>
>
>There's a brief fireball news article from: NewsRoom
>Finland
>
>http://tinyurl.com/8au9f
>
>A rare atmospheric phenomenon occurred in Finland late
>on Tuesday night.
>Emergency authorities in North Karelia received around
>twenty telephone calls alerting them to what was later
>confirmed as a fireball, or an especially luminous
>meteor.
>
>Callers told the authorities that a burning object
>fell from the sky leaving a smoke trail...
>
>Any URSA meteor-section members here?
>
>--
>David Entwistle
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>
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