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Home arrow Meteor Home arrow Fireball update - early 2008

Fireball update - early 2008 Print E-mail

Fireball reports to the section from July 2006 to February 2008.

2006 July 14 2053 UT

Seen in early twilight from Cheshire and Somerset. Slow, fragmenting into three or four pieces at end of flight Yellow/green/blue and perhaps as bright as magnitude -10. Probably over the Bristol Channel.

2006 July 18 2254 UT

Widely seen from London and the Home Counties. Low, apparently descending, to the E/NE. Blue-white fireball lasting 3-5 seconds.

2006 August 18 ca. 2123 UT

Mike Russell of the West Highland Free Press reports that Stornoway Coastguard received around a hundred calls from Skye and the Western Isles following a fragmenting red/orange fireball. This left a ‘round hazy cloud’ which remained visible for an hour.

2006 August 28 ca. 2100 UT

Green-white fragmenting fireball, seen on long path NW-SE from Kent. Started overhead as seen from Shropshire, ending 10-15 degrees above SSE horizon. Also seen from Staffs. and Suffolk.

2006 October 13 2035 UT

From zenith to NNE as viewed in Essex, east from Norfolk. Bright event leaving long-duration (up to two minutes) persistent train. Probably over North Sea east of Yorkshire.

2006 December 6 1846 UT

Seen from Birmingham and Cheltenham. Slow, teardrop-shaped fireball about a quarter the apparent size of the Moon, to the east of the sky.

2007 January 24 0730 UT

In bright morning twilight, seen to west and southwest from Liverpool and Wet Wales. White, turning greenish and fragmenting.

2008 January 9 ca. 1900 UT

A green fireball, perhaps as bright as mag. -7, seen from locations as far apart as Berks., Cambridge and Aberdeen. Due south from the last of these, travelling east-west. Probably over North Sea east of East Anglia.

2008 January 15 2257 UT

Widely seen from Channel Islands, where it appeared in the north/northeastern sky. Brilliant, flaring event as seen from Hampshire – almost overhead and travelling northwards. A slow-moving object, visible for about three seconds in the eastern sky from Glos. and Wilts. Colour reported as green or blue-white.

2008 February 11 2057 UT

Another widely-seen event, probably over the North Sea off East Anglia. Reports from Cambs., Ebbw Vale, Norfolk, Berks., and even central London. A brilliant white, flaring fireball perhaps as bright as mag. -8 (comparable to the waxing crescent Moon, present in the western sky at the time).

2008 February 11 2237 UT

A second, probably unrelated fireball on the same evening. Yellow-orange, flaring event ‘brighter than Venus’ (probably mag. -5 to -6) seen travelling N-SE from Hants., and to the ESE fro Somerset.

2008 February 12 2230 UT

A red-orange mag. -5 fireball, fragmenting to three or four pieces, and leaving a brief train. Seen travelling NNE-NE from Glos., and high in the south heading southwards from Essex

 

 
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