ESA: Small meteorite will safely impact atmosphere tonight over northern France
Wow!! From just east of Aachen, perfectly visible. Turning from a point of light coming down into a "oh wow that's really cool" into an actual fireball at >400 km horizontal distance! Holy crap that was exhilarating<p>Edit: I was expecting that it would be too far away, also with Aachen's city glow and the highway, that nothing would be visible, or at best, a point appearing and disappearing at basically the same location in the haze of city glow. Compared to that, I'm absolutely blown away. Will post a video in a few minutes, just took the 380MB thing off my phone, now cropping to the right ~10 seconds, rotating, that stuff<p>Edit again: here we are finally <a href="https://lgms.nl/files/Sar2667-Aachen.mp4" rel="nofollow">https://lgms.nl/files/Sar2667-Aachen.mp4</a> Quite sad it defocused, and you'll need an x264 decoder in your browser I think (I used `ffmpeg -c:v copy` to avoid losses, so it's whatever encoding my phone uses), should work in a local video player if you download it.<p>A friend found this one <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8owpwqzBEPA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8owpwqzBEPA</a><p>Location estimate, based on where I saw it plus this video <a href="https://twitter.com/meteordoc/status/1624967987294765059" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/meteordoc/status/1624967987294765059</a> from Brighton looking over a pier: <<a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.0761&mlon=0.5335#map=8/50.0761/0.5335" rel="nofollow">https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=50.0761&mlon=0.5335#map=...</a>>. It became visible to me at 03:59:13 GMT+1/CET and exploded 5 seconds later, with my phone's clock sync being ~0.6s behind so it might have been 03:59:14<p>Got so lucky finding that Brighton video as the 2nd result earlier. Spent another 15 minutes looking for a third angle but the "looking east", "looking south" indicated angles are either implausible or too inaccurate to be useful. A Paris video is of such quality that I couldn't for the life of me find out which buildings are in view to map it to an angle. This location guess is going to be my final estimate.