Fw: [meteorite-list] Fireball sighting over Northern Germany

From: Dieter Heinlein <dieter.heinlein_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Jun 25 08:25:48 2006
Message-ID: <000201c69852$5af53f40$cf015150_at_DieterHeinlein>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dieter Heinlein" <dieter.heinlein_at_a-city.de>
To: "Martin Altmann" <altmann_at_meteorite-martin.de>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Fireball sighting over Northern Germany


> Hi list,
>
> just a short comment from the European Fireball Network.
>
> The fireball was seen in the evening twilight: On June 11 at 10.10 pm CEST,
> our cameras did not yet start to work. So the bolide came too early in order
> to be registered by our camera stations.
>
> I suppose that it was a pretty large chunk of cometary debris and not
> a meteorite dropping event. We registere several of these cometary
> fireballs every month. Some (especially those that occur in the evening
> hours) make it to the media and some dont......
>
> If casual observers report, "that the meteorite must have landed behind
> the next tree", it make not very much sense to start a searching campain
> there... :-))
>
> Just my two cents
>
> Dieter Heinlein, Augsburg
> DLR Fireball Network
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Altmann" <altmann_at_meteorite-martin.de>
> To: <Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2006 10:33 AM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Fireball sighting over Northern Germany
>
>
> Ho list,
>
> a fireball in Germany made it to the larger newspapers, which are in such
> respects normally rather reserved.
>
> Shortly combined:
>
> On June 11th in the evening at 10:10 pm a bright fireball with fiery tail
> was independently witnessed by several people in several places in Northern
> Germany
> (Kissenbr?ck, Peine, Gifhorn (there were the meteorite fair takes place),
> Braunschweig, Sch?ningen, Beierstedt, Salzgitter, Vienenburg).
> Scientists from several regional institute believe, that it was a fall of a
> meteorite, but are not sure, whether it was a dropper and whether material
> made it to the ground. The possible impact area is supposed to be in
> Saxony-Anhalt.
>
> Dieter, had the camera network caught the bolide? Was it a dropper?
>
> Buckleboo!
> Martin
>
> PS: articles
>
> http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltraum/0,1518,422472,00.html
>
> http://www.volksstimme.de/vsm/nachrichten/sachsen_anhalt/?sid=b6bb6277a820e0
> cdcfec3f594bd529bc&em_cnt=109145
>
> http://www.welt.de/data/2006/06/21/925299.html
>
> http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/06/21/a0263.1/text
>
>
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