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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

[Limax7]

The trail started about 250„a azimuth and ended at 270-275„a, at an elevation of perhaps 6-8 degrees above the horizon.

Czy w Wielkiej Brytanii ten azymut oznacza kierunek zachodni (tzn. czy północ oznaczona jest jako 0*) ?

 

O tym bolidzie można też tu poczytać: http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/mn/0502/stak4.htm#20ukmet

Być może to było coś z roju Wirginid lub sporadyczny kawałek skałki (a może coś "naszego" ).

Edytowane 22 Lutego 2005 przez Limax7