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----- Original Message -----
From: Dieter
Heinlein
To: Ron Baalke
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 8:54 PM
Subject: Bavarian Bolide Hello Ron,
as I estimate from you last posting, you
have heard a lot of RUMORS that
were reported about the great bolide that was visible over southern Germany
recently.
I would like to inform you about some FACTS
concerning this event:
A fireball of estimated magnitude -20 mag was
observed by hundreds of people
over southern Bavaria on April 6, 2002 at 20:20:18 UT, and spectacular
sound
effects were reported by many
witnesses.
The trajectory of this bolide was registered
by several camera stations of the
European Network of Fireball Photography. At least
five camera stations located
in Germany, one in Austria and one in
the Czech Republic catched this event.
Right now these images are reduced at the
Ondrejov Observatory (Czech
Republic) in order to obtain precise data for
the atmospheric trajectory.
A meteorite fall is
probable, but NO real meteorites have been
found so far.
A "stone" has been found by a farmer's wife near
Freising, Bavaria. On the first
glance a meteoritic origin of this stone was suggested by scientists of the
Institute of Geology at the Munich University. But
a closer inspection of this find
showed clearly, that it was only a piece of bitumen
(see enclosed picture).
Dieter Heinlein
Coordinator of the Central European
Network
of Fireball Photography and Meteorite
Recovery
@ DLR Institute of Space Sensor Technology
and Planetary Exploration, Berlin
(c) of enclosed picture: Dieter
Heinlein
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