Lucky border dwellers of Southern Germany and Switzerland got a remarkable opportunity recently to witness a bright, green meteor lighting up the night’s sky. On 1 September, at 05:12 CEST, this blazing space rock struck Earth. Streaming through the sky it was captured by 12 cameras in the all-sky camera FRIPON network as well as local observers. Data from these cameras tell us it entered Earth’s atmosphere with an initial mass between 0.5 – 2 kg. First visible over Yverdon-les-Brains, Switzerland it travelled at 25 kilometres per second, last spotted above Gütenbach, Germany.
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