UKMON and BOAM record fireball across the Channel
Fireball date: 12 August 2014 at 00:05:31 UT
Fireball ID: M20140812_000531
UK Meteor Observation Network has been collaborating with French meteor observer database (BOAM) for number of years and only now during 2014 Perseid meteor shower we have been lucky to record a large fireball across the two networks.
We call this one BOAM’s fireball since we were alerted first by Tioga about event on 12 August 2014 at 00:05:31 UT
Norman Lockyer Observatory has recorded the fireball visually as well in radio spectrum:
Astonishingly Richard Fleet from Wilcot has also recorded this fireball in both spectrums:
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