Reports Report 1835w (Event 1835-2025)
| Observer | |
|---|---|
| Name | Seb B |
| Experience Level | 4/5 |
| Remarks | W.r.t. the sound it might have made: I don't know, as I was driving my car. I cannot accurately report on that. W.r.t. my general observation: as someone who also regularly watches the sky for aircraft movement, and is familiar with the spotting area, my initial estimate was that the meteor must have entered the atmosphere (under my assumption it flew at 100 km altitude when it lit) somewhere above the Dutch Wadden Islands (Texel being the most western island). |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Address | Hillegom, Zuid-Holland (NL) |
| Latitude | 52° 18' 55.09'' N (52.315304°) |
| Longitude | 4° 35' 20.04'' E (4.588899°) |
| Elevation | 3.021796m |
| Time and Duration | |
|---|---|
| Local Date & Time | 2025-03-28 23:18 CET |
| UT Date & Time | 2025-03-28 22:18 UT |
| Duration | ≈3.5s |
| Direction | |
|---|---|
| Moving direction | From up left to down right |
| Descent Angle | 96° |
| Moving | |
|---|---|
| Facing azimuth | 6.23° |
| First azimuth | 353.31° |
| First elevation | 28° |
| Last azimuth | 20.16° |
| Last elevation | 22° |
| Brightness and color | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Magnitude | -9 |
| Color | Light Yellow |
| Concurrent Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Delayed Sound | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Unknown |
| Remarks | - |
| Persistent train | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Duration | 0.4s |
| Length | 14° |
| Remarks | The glowing train quickly disappeared, but the meteor/meteorite and the train looked such, that it appeared the meteor was disintegrating into tiny particles around the core track of the meteor. The particles obviously flew in the same direction as the meteor. |
| Terminal flash | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | I'm not sure: the meteor's brighthess was quite constant. Maybe, in the end, there was a little flash, but I am not certain, as I was driving. |
| Fragmentation | |
|---|---|
| Observation | Yes |
| Remarks | This is what I meant in my description of the train: fragmentation. Small particles seemed to travel in the same direction as the meteor, but a bit off-center from the core track, and some a bit behind (left & right rear of the meteor's flight path, which from my viewpoint looked left above and left beneath the almost horizontal track of the meteor, which itself flew from left (west) to east (right)) the meteor itself. |