2023-04-18 08:37:00
“We saw a green light crossing the sky at high speed this Monday, April 17 at 9:35 p.m.“, “Around 9:22 p.m., I observed the fall of a meteorite from Moulbaix in a westerly direction. A huge yellow then green trail that lasted regarding 3 seconds.“Several people have contacted us via the orange Alert us button to inform us of an unusual phenomenon in the sky near Ath and Lessines in particular.
“There is indeed a ‘fireball’ or bolide, a very bright meteor, detected by our FRIPON cameras located in Uccle and Grimbergen at 9:32 p.m. last night“, indicates Hervé Lamy, head of section of the Royal Institute of Space Aeronomy of Belgium.Ce luminous phenomenon is a bright meteor and therefore still occurs at high altitudes. For the moment, there is no trajectory detected.“
According to him, the eventual meteorite is the residue of the combustion of this object if something survived the passage in the atmosphere and ends up on the ground in the form of fragments. “On the other hand, its fall is no longer luminous and therefore cannot be seen“, specifies Hervé Lamy. “Without trajectory or model, nothing can be said regarding a possible fall of meteorites on the ground.“
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