On May 30th, 2017 at about 21h 09m 17s UTC a green bright fireball crossed the sky of north-eastern Italy. The fireball path was observed from some all-sky cameras starting from a mean altitude of 81.1±0.2 km (Lat. 44.369∘±0.002∘ N; Long. 11.859∘±0.002∘ E) and extinct at 23.3±0.2 km (Lat. 45.246∘±0.002∘ N; Long. 12.046∘±0.002∘ E), between the Italian cities of Venice and Padua. In this paper, on the basis of simple physical models, we will compute the atmospheric trajectory, analize the meteoroid atmospheric dynamics, the dark flight phase (with the strewn field) and compute the best heliocentric orbit of the progenitor body. Search for meteorites on the ground has not produced any results so far.
@article{arxiv.1911.09555,
title = {A Case Study of the May 30th, 2017 Italian Fireball},
author = {A. Carbognani and D. Barghini and D. Gardiol and M. di Martino and G. B. Valsecchi and P. Trivero and A. Buzzoni and S. Rasetti and D. Selvestrel and C. Knapic and E. Londero and S. Zorba and C. A. Volpicelli and M. Di Carlo and J. Vaubaillon and C. Marmo and F. Colas and D. Valeri and F. Zanotti and M. Morini and P. Demaria and B. Zanda and S. Bouley and P. Vernazza and J. Gattacceca and J. -L. Rault and L. Maquet and M. Birlan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.09555},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
19 pages, 17 figures. Accepted for publication in The European Physical Journal PLUS