Huge fireball crossing the Dutch sky

[IronRain]

Around 5:30 p.m. local time (1:30 p.m./13:30 UTC) a huge fireball crossed through the Dutch sky. A lot of people thought it was a crashing plane and called the police. The police did a little investigation and called NASA. NASA then announced it was meteor.

But astronomers don't agree with it. They say it's a part of the Soyuz rocket that André Kuipers launched with.

What ever it was, there are no reports that it reached solid land.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vJjNthJxQ0Y

 

[T.Neo]

Santa Claus.

 

[Mattyv]

Santa Claus.

Silly !

NORAD said he was over Asia at the time.

 

[mojoey]

Silly !

NORAD said he was over Asia at the time.

liars!!!

 

[Pinguinboy]

Crap, and I haven't seen that...

 

[FordPrefect]

Damn it, I missed it! My brother, living not far from my home here (Karlsruhe), saw it. His descriptions made me so jealous of what he had witnessed, and me, the space geek, missed, aarrghh.

Here are a few really nice videos of the event recorded by some lucky folks in southern Germany:

http://youtu.be/N4JRiHP1YVU

http://youtu.be/Nn6JGUh5Guw

 

[SiberianTiger]

Looks much too big and bright for a 3rd stage of a Soyuz. I think it's most likely a real bolide.

 

[Ark]

Santa's reentry angle was a bit steep.

 

[statickid]

Around 5:30 p.m. local time (1:30 p.m./13:30 UTC)

...

But astronomers don't agree with it. They say it's a part of the Soyuz rocket that André Kuipers launched with.

What ever it was, there are no reports that it reached solid land.

Meteoriet zichtbaar boven (Feierball ) Nederland 17:30 uur 24-12-2011. Kerstavond 2011 - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vJjNthJxQ0Y

NASA is not astronomers?

 

[jedidia]

Santa's reentry angle was a bit steep.

Not too steep, thanks God. That thing looks big, and it burned a long time. At a steeper angle, it might actually have impacted... :blink:

Whatever it was, it does seem a bit slow for a meteorite, doesn't it?

 

[SiberianTiger]

Well, I actually shouldn't put my own belief above an informed knowledge. It was the Block I, after all:

http://reentrynews.aero.org/2011078b.html

 

[fort]

It seems that a fragment crashed on the roof of a house in a street named "street of the Cosmonauts" in a town of Siberia.That does not invent itself.
:rofl:

http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/artic...neuse-dans-le-ciel-europeen_1622669_3244.html

http://www.rtbf.be/info/etcetera/de...russe-s-ecrase-rue-des-cosmonautes?id=7293433

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

It seems that a fragment crashed on the roof of a house in a street named "street of the Cosmonauts" in a town of Siberia.That does not invent itself.
:rofl:

http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/artic...neuse-dans-le-ciel-europeen_1622669_3244.html

http://www.rtbf.be/info/etcetera/de...russe-s-ecrase-rue-des-cosmonautes?id=7293433

Err... you got the wrong Block I.....

 

[fort]

Err... you got the wrong Block I.....

...or the wrong planet...:facepalm: