Observer | |
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Name | Alison J |
Experience Level | 1/5 |
Remarks | Wecould not work out if it was a meteor or something crashing but the fire went out while it was in the sky. It was very low & quite slow compared to other meteors we have seen. Our first thought was that it was a plane crashing/exploding as it seemed low enough to be a plane. |
Location | |
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Address | Burton-on-Trent (UK) |
Latitude | 52° 43' 48.44'' N (52.730123°) |
Longitude | 1° 45' 9.95'' W (-1.752765°) |
Elevation | - |
Time and Duration | |
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Local Date & Time | 2012-09-21 23:00 WEST |
UT Date & Time | 2012-09-21 22:00 UT |
Duration | ≈7.5s |
Direction | |
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Moving direction | From up right to down left |
Descent Angle | 225° |
Moving | |
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Facing azimuth | 335.6745° |
First azimuth | 343.70381° |
First elevation | 45° |
Last azimuth | 280.66118° |
Last elevation | 30° |
Brightness and color | |
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Stellar Magnitude | 1 |
Color | Orange/yellow, looked lik |
Concurrent Sound | |
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Observation | No |
Remarks | - |
Delayed Sound | |
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Observation | No |
Remarks | we saw it from inside house so did not hear anything |
Persistent train | |
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Observation | Yes |
Duration | 10s |
Length | -1° |
Remarks | Glowing train of orange fire, never seenanything like it before so low in sky.it looked like a shower of something burning as it was falling, we thought it might be a plane that was on fire & breaking up as it came down but then it suddenly went out. |
Terminal flash | |
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Observation | No |
Remarks | it looked like lots of bits on fire, as if something had broken up |
Fragmentation | |
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Observation | Yes |
Remarks | - |