Updated:2013-08-22

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2000-05-06 : Morávka (Czech Republic)

Spatial and Temporal Informations

Location of fall
Morávka (Czech Republic)
Coordinates
48°36' N, 18°32' E
Date of fall
May 6, 2000 13h 52mn LT
May 6, 2000 11h 52mn UT
Initial velocity
22.50 ± 0.50 km/s
Terminal height of bolide
21 km
Fireball terminal velocity
3.70 km/s
Trajectory slope (// horizontal)
20.4 ± 0.2 °

Video

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J. Mišák Video - Uherské Hradište/Moravia
Video : J. Mišák (Uherské Hradište, Moravia)

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Jirí Fabig  Video - Ostrava/Moravian-Silesian
Video : Jirí Fabig (Ostrava, Moravian-Silesian)

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Jirí Gurnák Video - Velká Javorina/Moravia
Video : Jirí Gurnák (Velká Javorina, Moravia)

Photo

214g fragment

 
Courtesy: Jiri Borovicka, Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
 

329 g fragment

 
Courtesy: Jiri Borovicka, Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
 

91 g fragment

 
Courtesy: Jiri Borovicka, Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
 

Physical and kinetics Informations

Maximum absolute magnitude
-20.0 ( 33 km of height )
Pre-atmospheric mass of the meteoroid
1500 ± 500 kg
Corresponding size (diameter)
1 m
Kinetic energy
0.1 kt TNT
Total known weight (TKW)
1.4000 kg (until 2003 )
6 fragments
Density
3.59 g cm-3
Cosmic-ray exposure age
6.7 ± 1.0 Million years

Orbital

Semimajor axis (a)
1.85 ± 0.05 UA
Inclination (i)
32.2 ± 0.8 °
Eccentricity (e)
0.47 ± 0.03
Longitude of ascending nodet (W)
46.258 °
Argument of perihelion (w)
203.50 ± 1.00 °
Perihelion distance (q)
0.9823 ± 0.0012 UA
Aphelion distance (Q)
2.70 ± 0.20 UA
TXT_VUE_DESSUS
Vue parallele au grand axe
Vue parallele ŕ la ligne des noeuds

Lien

J. Borovicka
Fireball may 6, 2000
October 22, 2000
Dutch Meteor Society (DMS)
Fireball's 06-05-2000 / 11:51:25 UT and 10-05-2000 / 17:15:25 UT (Pavel Spurny)
July 1, 2000
http://www.ian.cz/
Fire from sky
May 10, 2000

Reference

The Moravka meteorite fall: fireball trajectory orbit and fragmentation from video records
J. Borovicka, P. Spurny and Z. Ceplecha
Meteoritics and Planetary Science. Supplement 36 [9] (2001), pp. A25-A26
The Moravka meteorite fall: 3. Meteoroid initial size, history, structure, and composition
J. Boroviedka, H. W. Weber, T. Jopek, P. Jakes,Z. Randa, P. G. Brown, D. O. Revelle, P. Kalenda...
Meteoritics and Planetary Science 38 [7] (2003), pp. 1005-1021