[meteorite-list] Bolide over Germany

From: Martin Altmann <altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:40:38 +0100
Message-ID: <002c01cbb0cb$f95a5e90$ec0f1bb0$_at_de>

Yes Sir!

The bolide was caught by a fireball camera (btw. a private one run by a
meteorite collector, as it happens outside the recording time of the
European Fireball Network stations).

Now the private collectorship here is already calculating and collecting
eye- and earwitness reports
and determined already a preliminary possible dropping zone and organizes a
team for searching.

To publish the photos, data here ect. we have to leave it to the list
member, who caught the bolide and who made the calculations.

Grateful we are to live in a civilized meteorite country and not in
Australia, Argentina or South Africa,
where such efforts can't be undertaken at all and won't happen.
Naturally the chances to find the meteorite are low, but soooo much higher
than in these countries, where such droppers would remain unrecorded,
unnoticed and where nobody would try to hunt them down, because nobody is
allowed to do so, but a very few, who don't do it.

...and therefore I think, Stuttgart definitely deserves a new fall so much
more than Perth ;-)

Let's be thrilled!
Martin



(PS: Gary, it's strange, that Argentina and Poland introduced such laws,
that's atypical for mainly catholic countries. An exception to my newest
thesis, that the Bevanism could be an extreme form of Ussherism).

-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
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[mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] Im Auftrag von Gary
Fujihara
Gesendet: Montag, 10. Januar 2011 03:46
An: MeteorList
Betreff: [meteorite-list] Bolide over Germany

Aloha,

I hear there was a bright bolide that appeared over Germany last night
(Saturday, Jan 8) around 17:51, with a fragmentation event and sonic boom.
Are there any metlist members who witnessed this, or have knowledge of it to
share? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Gary Fujihara
Big Kahuna Meteorites (IMCA#1693)
105 Puhili Place, Hilo, Hawai'i 96720
http://bigkahuna-meteorites.com/
http://shop.ebay.com/fujmon/m.html
(808) 640-9161

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Received on Mon 10 Jan 2011 08:40:38 AM PST