Nickel Iron Meteor

[Bill Ward]

Hi,
The first decent night in ages! Captured this gorgeous and quite rare Type B, pure nickel iron meteor spectrum.
These represent only a few % of all meteors.
The colourised synthetic spectrum shows the huge yellow/orange thermal emission. The bulk material is different but it is an interesting illustration of the way filament bulbs glow viz a heated metal in a near vacuum!
Cheers,
Bill.

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[Bill Ward]

Hi All,
An update on the observation. The meteor was caught by several UKMON stations and an orbit has been determined.
See graphic for plan view. Inclination was at ~10 degrees and the velocity was slow at 10.6km/sec.
It always great to tie down an orbit.
Orbital info/plot courtesy of UKMON (thanks to the observers and UKMON for making this info publically available!)
Cheers,
Bill.

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