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Pribram fireball photographed, Czechoslovakia

When: 7 Apr 1959
Where: Pribram, Czech Republic
Sources: 2 public sources

A 2009 Prague exhibition on the 50th anniversary of the Pribram fall Czech Wikipedia user Packa, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Cameras of the Ondrejov Observatory photographed a bright fireball whose meteorites fell near Pribram. It was the first meteorite fall traced back to its orbit in the solar system from photographs, a model for instrument-based study of fireballs.

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OtherEuropean fireball network (opens in a new tab)Meteor physics group, Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Ondrejov)
OtherSmall Near-Earth Asteroids as a Source of Meteorites (Borovicka, Spurny, Brown) (opens in a new tab)arXiv / 2015-02

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