Daylight fireball !

DOM · Post by **DOM** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 7:59 pm

ATTENTION , THIS PICTURE IS NOT MY PICTURE !

Is it a real one or something else ? It have been took in France and we have made serch and it was not a iridium.

here's the picture http://bartocosto.free.fr/143_4363.JPG

here's the exif :

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crosscountry · Post by **crosscountry** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:04 am

that could likely be a meteor with the picture taken near the very beginning of the streak.

But I suggest it may be a plane at the perfect angle to reflect that much light.

juanroberts · Post by **juanroberts** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:49 pm

I have seen green fireballs 3 times. Once during a meteor shower, once during New Years (this was followed by internet chat about a UFO, believe it or not), and the last time was in the daytime. From my experience, this is a meteor. The green color alone verifies it, and a plane would not reflect a green color and leave a white trail that gets smaller, instead of larger. The fireball trails tend to be a red glow, consistent with the picture. That said, I think the picture was taken in twilight, and not at night.

This confirms the geometry of the light:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050812.html

This one, the green color:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap981125.html

Some go from green to red:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap981120.html

But your picture resembles what I have seen the best. The ones I have seen were over in 1/3 of a second. How did you get the picture, was it very slow-moving?