[meteorite-list] Fwd: [IMO-News] Daylight Fireball over the UK (2005-02-20)

From: Robert Verish <bolidechaser_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Feb 22 12:15:24 2005
Message-ID: <20050222171522.62661.qmail_at_web51704.mail.yahoo.com>

Hope this gets the attention of our Great Britian
listees:

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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:35:51 -0800 (PST)
From: Lew Gramer <mameteors_at_yahoo.com>

Subject: Fwd: [IMO-News] Daylight Fireball over the UK

Forwarded without explicit permission of the author.

Clear skies!
Lew Gramer

--- André Knöfel <andre.knoefel_at_dwd.de> wrote:
> To: IMO-News mailing list <imo-news_at_yahoogroups.com>
> From: André Knöfel <andre.knoefel_at_dwd.de>
> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 18:10:30 +0000
> Subject: [IMO-News] Daylight Fireball over the UK
>
> In the last hours I received some reports of a
daylight fireball in the UK.
>
> Date. 2005-02-20
> Time: 09:55...09:58 UT
> reports from
> Richard White - Monmouth (Wales)
> Ian Sleight - Stafford
> Stephen Burt - Stratfield Mortimer (West Berkshire)
> Karl Hibbert - Dunkeswell (Devon)
> Peter Thomson - Bovey Tracey (Devon)
> Path from south to nortwest
>
> "Bright sunny morning, blue sky, when something
caught my eye out of the window. An extremely bright
trail, white like magnesium with sparks in its trail
of yellow and blue."
>
> "I was talking on my mobile phone and looking in the
western sky approximately 280 degrees towards some
Poplar trees when I saw a large blue-green object with
a white core travel towards 290 degrees the events
lasted about 4 seconds. Starting elevation approx 35
degrees finishing elevation 30 degrees. Speed
approximation = medium."
>
> "A few seconds before 0955 UTC today, Sunday 20
February I saw what appeared to be a very bright
daylight fireball streak low across the western
sky. It first caught my eye as a flash of green, and
for an instant I thought it was a flash of sunlight
off a turning aircraft. It brightened and moved very
rapidly and developed a short intensely bright vividly
iridescent green trail. It lasted no more than 2
seconds, maybe 3. The trail started about 250„a
azimuth and ended at 270-275„a, at an elevation of
perhaps 6-8 degrees above the horizon.
>
> "Very visible in bright sunshine, incredible colours
as it broke up, never seen anything like it in my
life."
>
> "Object appeared brilliant against clear blue sky in
bright sunlight. Fragments were also brilliant and
clearly separated. No trail of any sort visible in sky
after event. Another witness confirmed colour as blue
green and very bright."
>
>
> Best wishes,
> André Knöfel
> Fireball Data Center
> International Meteor Organization
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/imo-news.

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Lew Gramer <dedalus_at_alum.mit.edu>

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Bob V.
Received on Tue 22 Feb 2005 12:15:22 PM PST