A case study of the May 30, 2017, Italian fireball

Albino Carbognani; D. Barghini; D. Gardiol; M. Di Martino; G. B. Valsecchi; P. Trivero; A. Buzzoni; S. Rasetti; D. Selvestrel; C. Knapic; E. Londero; S. Zorba; C. A. Volpicelli; M. Di Carlo; J. Vaubaillon; C. Marmo; F. Colas; D. Valeri; F. Zanotti; M. Morini; P. Demaria; B. Zanda; S. Bouley; P. Vernazza; J. Gattacceca; J. L. Rault; L. Maquet; M. Birlan

doi:10.1140/epjp/s13360-020-00254-6

2020 Impact factor 3.911

EPJ PLUS - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems

Regular Article

Eur. Phys. J. Plus (2020) 135: 255
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-020-00254-6

Regular Article

A case study of the May 30, 2017, Italian fireball

Albino Carbognani¹^,2^*, D. Barghini²^,3, D. Gardiol², M. Di Martino², G. B. Valsecchi⁴^,5, P. Trivero⁶, A. Buzzoni¹, S. Rasetti², D. Selvestrel⁷, C. Knapic⁸, E. Londero⁸, S. Zorba⁸, C. A. Volpicelli², M. Di Carlo⁹, J. Vaubaillon¹⁰, C. Marmo¹¹, F. Colas¹⁰, D. Valeri¹²^,13, F. Zanotti¹³, M. Morini¹³, P. Demaria¹³, B. Zanda¹⁴, S. Bouley¹¹, P. Vernazza¹⁵, J. Gattacceca¹⁶, J. L. Rault¹⁷, L. Maquet¹⁰ and M. Birlan¹⁰

¹ INAF-Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio, Via Piero Gobetti, 93/3, 40129, Bologna, Italy
² INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, Via Osservatorio 20, 10025, Pino Torinese, TO, Italy
³ Dipartimento di Fisica, Univ. degli studi di Torino, Turin, Italy
⁴ IAPS-INAF, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133, Rome, Italy
⁵ IFAC-CNR, via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
⁶ Dip. Di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, Univ. del Piemonte Orientale, Viale Teresa Michel, 11, 15121, Alessandria, Italy
⁷ INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Vicolo dell’Osservatorio 5, 35122, Padua, Italy
⁸ INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Via G.B. Tiepolo 11, 34143, Trieste, Italy
⁹ INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico d’Abruzzo, Via Mentore Maggini, 64100, Teramo, Italy
¹⁰ IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, CNRS, Sorbonne Université s, UPMC, Paris, France
¹¹ GEOPS, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
¹² Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile ed Ambientale, Univ. La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
¹³ Italian Meteor and TLE Network (IMTN), Ferrara, Italy
¹⁴ IMPMC, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
¹⁵ LAM, Institut Pytheas, Marseille, France
¹⁶ CEREGE, Institut Pytheas, Marseille, France
¹⁷ FRIPON, Collaborative Team, Paris, France

^* e-mail: albino.carbognani@inaf.it

Received: 21 November 2019
Accepted: 30 January 2020
Published online: 18 February 2020

Abstract

On May 30, 2017, at about 21 h 09 min 17 s UTC a green bright fireball crossed the sky of northeastern Italy. The fireball path was observed from some all-sky cameras starting from a mean altitude of km (Lat. N; Long. E) and extinct at km (Lat. N; Long. E), between the Italian cities of Venice and Padua. In this paper, on the basis of simple physical models, we will compute the atmospheric trajectory, analyze the meteoroid atmospheric dynamics, the dark flight phase (with the strewn field) and compute the best heliocentric orbit of the progenitor body. Search for meteorites on the ground has not produced any results so far.