[meteorite-list] Bright bolide near the Swedish/Norwegian border

Steinar Midtskogen steinar at latinitas.org
Thu Aug 13 11:12:15 EDT 2015


At 23:50:39UTC 2015-08-12 a bright bolide appeared in Scandinavia.  Not
a Perseid, but observed by many Perseid observers.  It lasted 9 seconds,
bright as the full moon for about 6 seconds and peaked around -14 at 100
km distance.

It fragmented into two groups and faded in a spray.  Green and yellow
colour.  A preliminary analysis gives: Incidence about 22 degrees.
Terminal height about 30 km.  Average speed about 17 km/s.

Pictures and videos at:

 http://norskmeteornettverk.no/wordpress/?p=2112

-- 
Steinar Midtskogen


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