[meteorite-list] Bright bolide near the Swedish/Norwegian border

From: Steinar Midtskogen <steinar_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 17:12:15 +0200
Message-ID: <87vbcjw7cg.fsf_at_latinitas.org>

At 23:50:39UTC 2015-08-12 a bright bolide appeared in Scandinavia. Not
a Perseid, but observed by many Perseid observers. It lasted 9 seconds,
bright as the full moon for about 6 seconds and peaked around -14 at 100
km distance.

It fragmented into two groups and faded in a spray. Green and yellow
colour. A preliminary analysis gives: Incidence about 22 degrees.
Terminal height about 30 km. Average speed about 17 km/s.

Pictures and videos at:

 http://norskmeteornettverk.no/wordpress/?p=2112

-- 
Steinar Midtskogen

Received on Thu 13 Aug 2015 11:12:15 AM PDT