[meteorite-list] Possibly 3 fireballs over Europe on 6-7 April

From: Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:50:25 2004
Message-ID: <008b01c1df42$0fa212c0$56d386c2_at_latitude>

Dear all,

Now starts to look like there might have been THREE large fireballs over
west Europe on the night of 6-7 April. The Bayern event was reportedly at
~20:30 UTC, the Dutch/Belgian North Sea event at 0:28 UTC and the Scottish
event at ~3:45 UTC. That is, if there is no mistake in the time given for
either the Dutch/Belgian or Scottish reports and these are not one and the
same object.

Note the seeming regularity of approx. 4 hours inbetween each appearance.
One could perhaps think of fragments of some fragmenting satellite or rocket
booster re-entering for an extended period along its orbit (this is just my
suggestion), although Alan Pickup's Decay Watch page does not give a clear
candidate.

Marco Langbroek (Dutch Meteor Society)
Received on Mon 08 Apr 2002 04:49:20 PM PDT