--------------- Forward Message --------------- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 15:56:47 +0300 From: "Lyytinen Esko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Fireball News Article from Finland Hi, Yes we really had a very bright fireball yesterday evening at about 19.23 UT. The URSA meteor section has received quite a big number of reports and more is coming. The Sun was just about setting at the the region of the observations and it was very remarkable in spite of the lightness. It was cloudy here in Southern Finland and so I could not capture it in my fireball-camera. We have received one photograph of the smoke trail that peristed for 45 minutes (maybe till the Sun got too down to illuminate it). There also exists a video of the smoke trail, but the recoreder has not yet submitted it. According to my quick lookup, this seems to be clearly visible in the Swedish infrasound data from http://www.umea.irf.se/maps/index.php Uppsala and Lycksele . It appears to have entered from somehere South-East with an entry angle of maybe 30 degrees from horizon and lasted maybe from 5 to 10 seconds. So the entry velocity seems to have been relatively slow. According to one (of the most nearby observers it exploded into small pieced that ended in less than a second from the explosion.) The pieces quite clearly landed ouside the Finnish border, into the Russian side, maybe by about/more than 100km:s, according to the infrared locator. I expect that Markku Nissinen will put the smoke trail-figure into the URSA meteor section web-site, but this has not yet been done. Esko >>> There's a brief fireball news article from: NewsRoom Finland http://tinyurl.com/8au9f A rare atmospheric phenomenon occurred in Finland late on Tuesday night. Emergency authorities in North Karelia received around twenty telephone calls alerting them to what was later confirmed as a fireball, or an especially luminous meteor. Callers told the authorities that a burning object fell from the sky leaving a smoke trail... Any URSA meteor-section members here? -- David Entwistle --- End of meteorobs Digest, Vol 13, Issue 18 ***************************************** ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
