Imminent impact (or airburst rather)! According to twitter.com/IMOmeteors/status/ "on anuary 21st, ~00h 32min UT, a small freshly discovered 1-m diameter asteroid, Sar27367 is to enter the Earth atmosphere above North-Eastern Germany (lat. ~ 52.54494°N, lon. ~ 12.52813°E)." See twitter.com/Richard_M_F/status for maps of the impact zone!

Here is the predicted (!) #fireball over Germany, recorded by a webcam in Leipzig: twitter.com/meteordoc/status/1 - I watched it live on that feed, already (after a case over France, which also dropped meteorites) the second time that I could follow a predicted bright meteor live on a webcam. Modern times these are ...

Even better - the predicted fireball filmed from Berlin which was closer to its track: twitter.com/GionniGion/status/

Visual reports of the predicted German #fireball are now appearing in fireballs.imo.net/members/imo_ and meteor.nachtlicht-buehne.de/ob. While photographs are appearing in forum.meteoros.de/viewtopic.ph - this is a very well documented event, I know of a lot more videos and images. Whether it was a likely meteor dropper is being calculated right now ... we may know more during the day.

And here is the wild astronomical side of the predicted fireball: minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K24 lists all the observations in the sky of the later exploded body - an amazing number; a great network had kicked into action here immediately - which was retroactively catalogued as #asteroid 2024 BX1 prior to hitting the Earth's atmosphere.

Early analysis of the trajectory of 2024 BX1 from videos by the AllSky7 network: allsky7.groups.io/g/german/mes - meteorite hunters are already at it, the ground in the predicted strewnfield is snow-covered, so chances aren't bad. Meanwhile here are the Hungarian discovery images of the asteroid, animated: twitter.com/sarneczky/status/1. And the 3D animation twitter.com/tony873004/status/ shows first the location of this observatory and then more and more joining the tracking - and then the asteroid coming in.

Haven't seen reports of any meteorites recovered from asteroid 2024 BX1 gone airburst over Germany yet, but at the bottom of asu.cas.cz/~meteor/bolid/2024_ you can find a calculated strewnfield in the Havelland based on many video recordings.

Ten more meteorites from the #2024BX1 fireball (and a shattered specimen) have been recovered: facebook.com/story.php?story_f - with a rough location provided this time, namely a part of the town of Nauen in the county of Havelland in the German state of Brandenburg.

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Nauen, that’s where those gigantic HF broadcast antenna are located?

@guardeddon No idea ... I was in Ribbeck 10 years ago - diary4dan.wordpress.com/2014/0 - but didn't notice anything unusual. In the NE corner of Germany I've seen some amazing antennas, though, purpose unknown (to me :-).

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