> My no-nothing opinion: > a) Cloud coloring indicates sun below horizon in direction > of object (sunlit), making trail backlit and luminous. > b) Assuming real time video speed, pass behind clouds looks > about the same as would be expected from a high altitude > multi-engine aircraft (too slow for sat re-entry, way too > slow for meteor). hello Robin, You're referring to the wrong video - it shows an aircraft contrail the day before, not the Spanish fireball. The real fireball video can be seen now along with a piece of text on it on our DMS website: http://www.dmsweb.org The fireball is too quick to be a decay, and indeed too quick to make surviving meteorites likely I think. - Marco ------ Dr Marco Langbroek 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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