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Orbits of meteorite producing fireballs : The Glanerbrug - A case study

1992; EDP Sciences; Volume: 255; Linguagem: Inglês

1432-0746

Peter Jenniskens, Jiří Borovička, Hans Betlem, Casper R. Ter Kuile, Felix Bettonvil, D. Heinlein,

Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics

At 18:32:38 UT on April 7, 1990, a breccious L-LL type chondrite fell near Glanerbrug in the Netherlands. From visual observations of the meteor by 200 occasional observers, a heliocentric orbit is derived by several independent methods, including a new method using the slope of the meteor on the sky as seen from different locations. The orbit found has a relatively high inclination of 23±5 degrees, adding weight to the high inclination tail of meteorite producing fireballs.