Overview

Probably everyone already saw a meteor once in his life. Completely unexpectedly it twitched over the night sky. It is an old tradition and well known that one may wish something in such a moment. We don’t know however, how many of these desires really come true. But however it is absolutely no field of research of the ERFM to find out these facts. What we know certainly is that: With a bit of luck it is quite possible to become a witness of a much more spectacular optical phenomenon at the firmament. Not colourless or as spoiled point this event comes there. No, it is brilliant brightly, unbelievably intensive in colours and clearly voluminous. We refer here to this as a so-called fireball, which is drawing apparently leisurely in some seconds across the sky. The people, who even saw a bolide or a fire meteor, will keep in mind that event for a very long time. It is an unbelievably beautiful and sometimes frightening phenomenon, in which the night turns into daylight. Who may even experience a detonating meteor event, will feel probably suddenly „the hand of God “or evenly the everyday power of physics. Humans begin suddenly to fade out their daily monotony. They think about their own existence, about earth, about the solar system, about the world altogether and about they just experienced.

Table of content

• Meteor science - general explanations
• Experiences of the ERFM with large meteor phenomena
• What can observe a witness of a fireball event?
• Large meteors and their shades of colour
• Acoustic and detonating meteors
• interesting facts