[meteorite-list] re: UK fireball

[mark ford]

Marco,

It was apparently seen directly [over head] in Dorset UK..  not 'in the
distance', so this implies a very southerly flight path.

Time will tell.

Best

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Marco Langbroek [mailto:marco.langbroek at wanadoo.nl] 
Sent: 27 September 2004 17:12
To: meteorite list
Subject: [meteorite-list] re: UK fireball

> The fireball reported over England on Friday (24th September) appears
to
> have traveled from Northern England/Ireland all the way down the
country
> and the most southerly report appears to be from Poole in Dorset,
which
> is right on the south coast.

Please do not make the same mistake as was made with the January 4th
fireball
over Spain: the fact that it was reported from southern England does not
mean it
traveled OVER southern England. A fireball traveling 500 north of you
can well
be seen by you. The distribution of locations of sighting is NOT the
same as the
trajectory path of the fireball! The area over which it can be seen is
much
wider than the actual trajectory length.

A distance traveled from Northern Ireland to southern Dorset and hence a
trajectory of over 500 km is not entirely impossible for a meteor (there
are
precedents), but it would be VERY unusual.

- Marco

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Marco Langbroek
Dutch Meteor Society (DMS)
Leiden, the Netherlands
52.15896 N, 4.48884 E (WGS 84)

e-mail: meteorites at dmsweb.org
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