Observation by Mark Fairfax: Slow & sizeable meteor

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Mark Fairfax

Observer

Mark Fairfax

Observed

2026 May 24 - 01:14

Uploaded

2026 May 24 - 16:53

Objects

Meteor

Equipment

GMN meteor camera kit

Location

Nottinghamshire

Target name

Slow & sizeable Sporadic meteor

Title

Slow & sizeable meteor

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With the onset of British Summer & the lack of ‘properly’ dark nights my trusty meteor camera keeps going:

A really sizeable Sporadic meteor travelling about as slow as meteors go leaving a long trail (visible mag -1.2; Vg 9.08km/s; mass 7.6g).

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