Gironde, France · 2013-12-14 · from the GEIPAN archive
On December 14, 2013 at 3 a.m., a motorist observes the very rapid passage in the sky of a silver fireball that disappears toward the N-E. No other testimony is reported. The observation of a very bright fireball, crossing the sky in less than a second, suggests a bolide (large shooting star), a phenomenon caused by the entry into the atmosphere of a fragment of a comet or asteroid. December 14 is a date at the peak of activity of the Geminid meteor shower: the BOAM observer network recorded dozens of them that night. GEIPAN classifies this case "B": probable observation of a bolide, from the Geminid shower.
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