Fireball Above Iceland
On 2023 September 13, near the northern most point of Iceland, the night sky exploded with the northern lights and a spectacular fireball, above the Arctic Henge monument. I was about to move our group to another spot when this tennis-ball sized space rock entered the earth atmosphere and burned at an altitude of 60-90 km above us, becoming as bright as the full moon for a moment. Such meteors are very rare to witness. Even for a frequent observer like me it took three decades to finally record one in video!
I was on my biannual Aurora PhotoTour. My Icelandic colleague @stjornu-saevar appears near the clip’s end, on a phone interview with the local media about the meteor.
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