Comments on: Swedish meteorball

By: Danish turnover meteorites | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Danish turnover meteorites | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:14:47 +0000

[...] January, a very bright meteor called a bolide or fireball streaked across the north Atlantic skies, and was seen over Denmark and Sweden. Now it’s being reported that German meteorite hunter Thomas Grau has found fragments of it [...]

By: Bigfoot

Bigfoot — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:30:57 +0000

Wow, that meteor rocks!

By: TUESDAY NIGHT LINKS: Gravity Waves, Swedish Meteorballs and Wooden Bathing Suits at ICED BORSCHT & Other Delights

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:35:30 +0000

[...] Swedish Meteorball! [...]

By: suzanne

suzanne — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:12:28 +0000

I live in england and both me and my boyfriend saw the it at about 11.50! but knowone believed us until we saw it on the news, it was amazing

By: Cannonball Jones

Cannonball Jones — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:37:32 +0000

Aww, not fair! How come we never get cool stuff like this over Scotland? Those pesky Swedes get the best vodka, the hot blondes and now this!

By: Erik J

Erik J — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:08:32 +0000

I live right there and I missed it…

I could’ve had both earthquake and meteor on my list by now but nooo. At least I wont miss the Baltic Sea Tsunami of 200x

By: Roger Nelson

Roger Nelson — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:51:06 +0000

While I did not see the Buzzard Coulee Meteorite (Near Lloydminster Saskatchwan in Canada) on Nov 20th, last year. Many over a large area saw it. I did participate in the search for fragments and found some myself. If this fall was similar, I would not be surprised to see reports of seeing it from the Netherlands to Finland or Estonia. And if it struck on land there will be thousands of pieces to find. I would look on the top of frozen lakes and ponds.

By: kuhnigget

kuhnigget — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:18:41 +0000

@ Torbjörn Larsson:

If it makes you feel any better, the last time I went to France I was accused of having a southern drawl, like a stereotypical good ol’ boy from the U.S. South. (I’m from the decidedly unaccented Pacific Northwest.) Because my accuser was smiling (in France!) I took it as a good-natured jest.

My epulugeees tu unyune-a vhu ves ooffffended.

By: Marco Langbroek

Marco Langbroek — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:15:53 +0000

This same fireball was indeed also observed from the Netherlands at 20:10 CET = 19:10 UTC, and photographed by a Dutch all sky station operated by Klaas Jobse in the southwest of the Netherlands (where it was very low in the sky). Most Dutch observations are from the north of the country though. It all suggests the location of the fireball should be sought over Denmark.
Link to Klaas Jobse’s all sky image:
http://cyclops.klaasjobse.nl/test/jcms/showpic.php?img=362_20090117_1909UT_web_w600h693.jpg

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:12:44 +0000

I have a wonderful (6 mega pixel) camera that would really do justice to such pictures however, by the time I get it out of my bag, turned on and pointed in the right direction,,,well, you get the idea,,,

Cell phones are rapidly becoming ubiquitous, thus the possibility that one will be turned on and pointed in more or less the right direction improve with every cell phone sold. By the time I have a cell phone, the rest of the world will be totally wired and pics like this should be common place.

Next: Pictures of a flying/free falling YETI.
I wonder if Yeti will glow green or blue as it re-enters the atmosphere???

GAry 7