Hello, OT but check this out! On the Dutch TV journal website is a very fine amateur video of the Spanish daylight fireball of January 4th. Go to: http://www.omroep.nl/nos/nieuws/index.html ....and scroll down untill you get at "Spanjaarden schrikken van vuurballen". There you can get a streaming RealPlayer video. The video rules out both satellite debris and the Quadrantid stream. The first because the fireball is simply too fast and short in duration. The second because it can be seen to be high in the sky coming in under a steep angle, towards the setting sun (see shadow on building in the video). This rules out a Quadrantid, as the angle is too steep and the direction of movement the wrong way (the Quadrantid radiant was at a mere 12 degrees -not 7 as I wrote earlier, Spain is on CET not GMT- above the northwest horizon at that time). This is a sporadic fireball (and given its velocity possibly cometary of origin). I would think the meteor is too fast to make a surviving meteorite likely. - Marco (with thanks to Judith who put me to this video on the web) ------ Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society Leiden, the Netherlands 52.15896 N, 4.48884 E (WGS 84) e-mail: meteorites@dmsweb.org website: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek ------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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