Halloween fireball 31 October 22:28:54 UT
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
Halloween fireball from Wilcot North East
Klaas Jobse from Oostkapelle observatory in Netherlands send us this picture
And we roughly calculated orbit and ground position
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