Fireball streams over Southern Germany

Lucky border dwellers of Southern Germany and Switzerland got a remarkable opportunity recently to witness a bright, green meteor lighting up the night’s sky. On 1 September, at 05:12 CEST, this blazing space rock struck Earth.

Streaming through the sky it was captured by 12 cameras in the all-sky camera FRIPON network as well as local observers. Data from these cameras tell us it entered Earth’s atmosphere with an initial mass between 0.5 – 2 kg. First visible over Yverdon-les-Brains, Switzerland it travelled at 25 kilometres per second, last spotted above Gütenbach, Germany.
 
Find out more, including if any remnants can be expected to have landed, on the International Meteor Organisation (IMO) website.