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Halloween fireball 31 October 22:28:54 UT

By Richard Kacerek

Fireball date: 31 October 2015 at 22:28:54 UT

Fireball ID: M20151031_222854

Halloween evening is usually time for witches and ghosts to appear on our cameras but this time we caught something more interesting. A sporadic fireball with two explosions, captured by two UKMON cameras and calculated actual magnitude was -6.3 magnitude.

Halloween fireball from Ash Vale North

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Halloween fireball from Wilcot North East

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Klaas Jobse from Oostkapelle observatory in Netherlands send us this picture

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And we roughly calculated orbit and ground position

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