Category Fireball events

A new meteorite has been recovered in France after a fireball was widely observed on the night of 9 September 2023 by FRIPON fireball cameras and eyewitnesses. A local resident of Sauldre et Sologne reported finding a potential meteorite on…

The fireball observed in the early evening of February 14 by the PRISMA network, FRIPON’s local network in Italy, resulted to the fall of a meteorite that impacted a balcony north of Matera (in southern Italy). In-depth analysis of the…

In the early hours of 13 February a fireball lit up the skies over Normandy, France, due to the predicted atmospheric entry of asteroid 2023X1. An international team from France, Canada, Australia and the US reconstructed a strewn field based…

The FRIPON camera network observed a very bright fireball over Belgium on Tuesday 13 December at 17:37 local time. Based on the observations and the latest calculations, the fireball produced meteorites that have been dropped in an area west of…