Update 4: Below is a spectacular shot of the meteor captured by Robert Mikaelyan
Fireball Meteor Over Groningen captured around 17:00UTC on Tuesday Netherlands - Source: Robert Mikaelyan
Update 3: Koen Miskotte estimated the meteor’s brightness between -8 and -12. According to his report the red orange fireball broke up in 5/6 pieces each one with a magnitude of -3 to -5. There are also reports of a sonic boom and a rumbling sound and shaking windows.
Update 2: Pictures of the smoke trail left by the bolide at dusk have appeared in a forum.
Update 1: According to the EXIF data of the original meteor photo, it was taken at 16:58:24 UTC between Assen and Groningen.
People in the Netherlands and Germany are reporting an extremely bright fireball seen around 19.00 CEST (17:00 UTC), traveling more or less south-north. Daniel Fisher of the Nuremberg Astronomical Association posted a photo of the meteor Daniel Fischer twittered links to a report posted on a mailing-list run by the Nuremberg Astronomical Association as well as to a a photo of the meteor:
A bright fireball seen over the Netherlands and Germany on October 13, 2009 at 16:58:24 UTC - Source: Jan de Vries
Theo Jurriens from the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of University of Groningen, and KNMI – the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, confirmed about one hundred reports received from the public. The meteor has been seen to burst into three pieces eventually.
Bolide smoke trail over the Dutch sky
Daniel Fischer
How, that was fast, if not entirely correct. “Daniel Fischer twittered links to a picture and to a report posted on a mailing-list run by the NAA” it should have been.
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shankar
sir,
I too have witnessed the falling meteor at night around 21 Hrs from my terrace at Indore India It was indeed very bright falling nearly
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Ulrik
I saw this one in Denmark, on the 13th of oct. just around seven in the evening as I was driving to work. SO cool someone got a shot of it. THANKS
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