Nov 1 2015

Bright Fireball over Poland

Vincent Perlerin - 4 Comments - In: Fireball Logs, Fireball Sightings, Fireball Videos

The American Meteor Society and the International Meteor Association received over 60 reports so far about a fireball event over the Eastern Poland on Saturday, October 31st 2015 around 18:05UT. Observers from as far the Netherlands and Austria reported seeing a bright light in the sky. Below is a heat map of the witness reports.

AMS Event#2824-2015 – Heatmap

The preliminary estimated trajectory plotted from the witness reports shows the meteor was traveling from the SE-NW and ended its (visible) flight few miles east of the German Border.

AMS Event#2824-2015 – Preliminary Estimated Trajectory

This event has been on camera:

If you witnessed this firebal please fill out an official fireball report.

Tags: fireball germany poland

Vincent Perlerin

Vincent Perlerin, PhD used to be a researcher in Computational Linguistics. He is now a software developer, a web designer, a community manager, an illustrator and many other things. He is working on the American Meteor Society under the supervision of Mike Hankey. Vincent is the lead developer of all the AMS projects. He's also the lead developer of the International Meteor Organization Website and the IMO online Databases management system.

4 comments

Arek 8 years ago

2 meteor in Poland 0:13

Reply to Arek
Arek 8 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44kW1PKc-aQ

Reply to Arek
Dan Jasminski 8 years ago

Fireball over Massachusetts looking from Enfield Ct at 5:15 pm on Nov 1st

Reply to Dan
peter 8 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-snQfb3TdY
observed from my dashcam
i wonder how can someone determine where or if something of this will touch the earth and what is the weight of this

Reply to peter

Active Meteor Showers

Meteor Shower Calendar 2024

Bright Fireball over Poland

Vincent Perlerin

4 comments

Leave a Reply to Dan Jasminski Cancel reply to Dan