Composite of video observations of the Slovenia fireball from Croatia, Hungary, Italy and Slovenia. Credit: Denis Vida and coworkers.
” By combining observations from several cams around 100 kilometers apart, a fireballs position can be identified to within 50 meters, and its typically fairly simple to compute its atmospheric trajectory and pre-atmospheric orbit this way,” stated Dr. Denis Vida from the University of Western Ontario, who presented a paper on finding the meteorites at the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2021.
Vida and his associates approximate the preliminary stony object that streaked through the sky was about one meter throughout and weighed approximately 4 metric heaps. But it disintegrated into at least 17 pieces.
3 fragments amounting to 720 grams have actually been recovered and taken to laboratories for analysis. The largest piece that was tape-recorded falling in the videos has an estimated mass of about ten kgs, but is yet to be found. Vida stated it may have dropped into a muddy field and may have accidentally been plowed in before its fall location was understood.
Vida stated the fireballs path is in a location where there are numerous all-sky video cameras that specifically look for fireballs and meteors. Thats why video tape-recorded by the dashcams and security cameras were so crucial in locating the meteorites.
The researchers said this is one of only around 40 fallen area rocks that have been recovered within weeks of falling to Earth. Another famous fireball was the Chelyabinsk airburst in 2013, which was likewise recorded by dashcams and security cams.
OK, all you meteorites that are falling to Earth … You are being watched!
The ever-expanding usage of security video cameras, doorbell cameras and vehicle dashcams have actually increased the variety of fireballs that have actually been spotted streaking across the skies. And sometimes, all that visual data offers the side benefit of allowing rocks from space to be tracked and found.
Vida stated it might have dropped into a muddy field and may have unintentionally been plowed in before its fall location was understood.
Dashcam video of the fireball observed from Sesvete in Croatia. Credit: Denis Vida et al
. Vida stated the pieces of the now-named Novo Mesto space rock– called after the Slovenian city near where the fragments were found– are ordinary chondrites, and the researchers are wishing to determine where in the Solar System it may have stemmed. Understanding where it came from might possibly expose information of the asteroids from its original place, in addition to about the early Solar System, the area rock was formed.
Vida stated the fireballs path is in a location where there are a number of all-sky cameras that specifically look for meteors and fireballs. Thats why video tape-recorded by the dashcams and security cameras were so crucial in locating the meteorites.
The researchers said this is one of only around 40 fallen area rocks that have actually been recuperated within weeks of falling to Earth. Another popular fireball was the Chelyabinsk airburst in 2013, which was likewise recorded by dashcams and security cameras. A security electronic camera captured the moment a chunk of that meteor hit a frozen lake, creating a 20-foot (6 meter) hole in the ice. Divers were able to fish out a 1/2 lot portion of the Chelyabinsk meteorite that determined 5 feet long (1.5 meter). It burglarized three pieces as researchers hoisted it into a scale to weigh it.
Lead image caption: A 48-gram piece of the Novo Mesto meteorite. Credit: Bojan Ambroži? (Center of Excellence on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Slovenia and https://bojanambrozic.com/).
More reading: Europlanet Press ReleasePaper: Novo Mesto meteorite fall– orbit, trajectory, and fragmentation analysis from optical observations
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Back in February of 2020, numerous individuals throughout Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Austria and Hungary reported seeing an intense ball of light hurtling across the early morning sky, in addition to a loud explosion and a visible path of dust in the sky. The event was captured by numerous cameras, including one that was on a cyclists helmet.
