An interesting news was published on MeteorNews about a fireball over Benelux on 10 October 2018. ( https://www.emeteornews.net/2018/10/13/fireball-over-benelux-10-october-2018-211411-ut/).

This fireball was also seen by 17 FRIPON cameras !  From the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany and Switzerland. Table 1 lists the orbital parameters close to these of CAMS but with an eccentricity lower than 1. This was a very low inclination object that remained high in the atmosphere, even the speed was rather fast and constant until the catastrophic end.

Table 1 – Comparing the orbit obtained by FRIPON with the result for CAMS BeNeLux.

 FRIPON

CAMS

v∞

 68.974+-0.064 km/s

vg

68.07 km/s

a

 25.6 / 39.5 AU

65.71 AU

q

 0.9848 ± 0.0007 AU

0.98437 AU

e

 0.968 ± 0.007

0.985

i

 142.76 ± 0.09°

142.54°

Ω

 197.2579 ± 0.0004°

197.2578°

ω

 166.4 ± 0.4°

165.95°

 

Figure 1 – Velocity measurements.

 

Figure 2 – FRIPON Oldenburg, low on the horizon.

 

Figure 3 – FRIPON Liège, Belgium.

 

Figure 4 – FRIPON Uranoscope.

 

Figure 5 – FRIPON Uccle, Belgium.

 

Figure 6 – FRIPON Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

 

Figure 7 – FRIPON Strasbourg, France.

 

Figure 8 – FRIPON Ketzur.

 

Figure 9 – FRIPON Sarralbe.

 

Figure 10 – FRIPON Wimereux.

 

Figure 11 – FRIPON Lille, France.

 

Figure 12 – FRIPON Oostkapelle, the Netherlands.

 

Figure 13 – FRIPON Vicques.

 

Figure 14 – FRIPON Arras, France.

 

Figure 15 – FRIPON Pleumeur Bodou.

 

Figure 16 – FRIPON Hochfelden.

 

Figure 17 – FRIPON Dunkerque.

 

Figure 18 – FRIPON Trajectory solution.