Fireball over Hungary - Hungarian Translator Needed

[rylek]

not sure if translating Czech articles would be helpful too.

If you have the time, it would be great to get something from the Czech press on it. Sott loves data! Especially for events like this where triangulation from other sources is valuable.

Here's one Czech article from iDnes.cz: http://zpravy.idnes.cz/vychodni-slovensko-ozaril-vybuch-meteoroidu-fau-/zahranicni.asp?c=A100302_101413_zahranicni_btw

Eastern Slovakia lit up by meteoroid explosion

2. March 2010

Inhabitants from the Slovak town of Košice were frightened Sunday night by a bizzare light in the sky and a loud explosion followed by a shock wave. According to astronomers apparently an object from space collided with the Earth and shortly before impact most likely exploded in the atmosphere.

”It is most likely that Earth encountered an interplanetary object about half a meter or a meter in diameter” said according to Slovakian server SME.sk Drahomír Chochol from the Astronomical institute of the Slovak academy of sciences (SAV) in Tatranská Lomnice. (read more on SME.sk)

”At around eleven thirty a light appered in the courtyard window and slowly began to glow brightly,” stated a resident from the village Jasov near Košice. ”Not like lightning, but really slowly, until the room was lit like during the day. She continues, ”we thought it strange that the dog didn’t bark.”

”After that the light faded and we heard the sound. The noise was similar to drumming, we felt pressure in our ears like when you stand next to speakers. It lasted at least a minute,” the resident of Jasovanka described the Sunday event.

According to Chochol the object entered the atmosphere where friction caused it to heat up and explode at an altitude of roughly 30 kilometres above the surface. The explosion was accompanied by light that at its maximum brightness was thousand times brighter than a full moon.

”It could have been one of the meteoroids that circle the Earth and it sometimes happens that they collide with the Earth,” said Chochol and added that unfortunately astronomers do not have a scientific record of the event. ”Even though we have a point camera on Lomnický štít, at the time it was overcast. Therefore we only have reports from individuals and from them we are attempting to explain the event.” he said.

The strange light had been captured in poor quality by one camerea part of the european point network, but amateur images from Prešov have also surfaced. But this will most likely be insuficient to determine the impact site and for the overall reconstruction of the object’s movement. To get the exact calculation they need recors from at least three independent locations.

 

[dövan]

Ok, tomorrow i'll do it if (hopefully) I'll have some time. Now time to sleep, here its almost midnight :)

 

[Possibility of Being]

At last there is something in English (aside from SoTT of course!):

_http://centraleasteurope.com/blog/

Mysterious fireball was on the sky on the night of 28th Feb. It was running through Northern Hungary and made a huge blast and flash above eastern Slovakia.

The authorities are still investigating what it was a meteor or anything other. Wizz Air pilots also saw the huge shiny ball of fire at 30000 feet, a Cathay Pacific flight also reported the object which was not the normal yellowish like a meteor rather than white.

The flashing light and blast caused minor panic in the villages northern Hungary, like Aggtelek or Roznava, Slovakia where everyone woke up for the strange noise and the light.

The fireball’s seen in Plzen, the Czech republic either, which is more than 600kms away. The NATO radars did not detect anything

RSOE Emergency and Disaster Information Service

Summary (a table with data):
_http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?glide=CO-20100301-25162-HUN&cat=dis&lang=eng

Event Description:
_http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?glide=CO-20100301-25162-HUN&cat=dis&lang=eng

People in parts of North Hungary and in Slovakia have experienced unusual sound and light phenomena on Sunday night. The rhythmically repeating sound and light occurrences were heard and seen in the large area from Kassa to Záhogy, but the majority of observations were registered in the Ózd, Kazincbarcika, Miskolc and Putnok area. According to people's descriptions, authorities thought it was a meteor shower, but the area over these phenomena were experienced is too large and no craters have been found neither. Furthermore, people saw a white light, but the light that can be seen at the time of a meteor shower is red. Another possible explanation is that it was an unusual meteorological event, similar to Polar Lights, but that is never accompanied by any sound. As the explanations above do not seem reasonable, it is also possible that it was an UFO. The Disaster Management is still investigating and looking for people who have witnessed this mysterious phenomena.

From the Polish Fireball Network (_http://www.pkim.org/?q=en/node/1298)

In the info it's stated that the phenomena over Slovakia lasted for about 5 secs and during that time at least 3 flashes of green light were observed. Some Slovakians reported several very loud booms that were heard a few minutes after the event. Based on Slovakian reports the fireball was over -10 magnitude.

The phenomena was also visible over southern Poland. Two Polish sky watchers from the town of Tarnow report a significant sky brightening that's been registered by a camera of a fireball station in Szamotuly, Poland (_http://www.pkim.org/files/news20100228_wroclaw_poland.gif)

 

[Niall]

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/203964-Eastern-Slovakia-lit-up-by-loud-meteor-explosion-and-shockwave

Thanks rylek. That's a very interesting eye-witness report, especially what was said about the sound of the impact. It reminds me of this about the electrophonic effects of such impacts.

 

[Vulcan59]

Just saw another video on youtube regarding this meteor. Haven't seen it in any of the links mentioned so far in this thread. Very short 6 seconds clip. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8Or61kYth8

 

[Niall]

That's the best footage yet. I'll send it on to the editors.

 

[ollaijani]

http://www.rtlhirek.hu/video/84397
This was in the news.

 

[Nienna]

Hi ollaijani ,

Welcome to the forum. We ask that new forum members tell a little bit about themselves in the Newbies section of the forum. We don't ask for any personal information, just how you found the forum and if you have read any of Laura's books, etc.

Hope to see you there. :)

 

[rylek]

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/203964-Eastern-Slovakia-lit-up-by-loud-meteor-explosion-and-shockwave

Thanks rylek. That's a very interesting eye-witness report, especially what was said about the sound of the impact. It reminds me of this about the electrophonic effects of such impacts.

Glad I could help out.

Thanks for mentioning the electrophonic meteor thread, haven't read that one yet.