Sightings2000

Moravka fireball and meteorite fall, Czech Republic

When: 6 May 2000
Where: Moravka, Czech Republic
Sources: 2 public sources

Meteorites from the Pribram and Moravka falls exhibited in Prague Czech Wikipedia user Packa, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A daytime fireball over the Czech Republic was recorded by videographers, seismographs, an infrasound station and satellites, and meteorites were recovered. Scientists called it one of the best documented falls ever, a benchmark for analyzing bright sky events.

Sources

OtherThe Moravka meteorite fall: 2. Interpretation of infrasonic and seismic data (Brown, Kalenda, ReVelle, Borovicka, Meteoritics and Planetary Science 38, 2003) (opens in a new tab)Meteoritical Society (copy hosted by the University of Western Ontario) / 2003
OtherThe Moravka meteorite fall: fireball trajectory, orbit and fragmentation from video records (Borovicka, Spurny, Ceplecha) (opens in a new tab)Czech Academy of Sciences library (ASEP) / 2001

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