Many report seeing a fireball light up the dark winter sky
A meteor blazed across the Danish sky on Monday evening, according to astrophysicist Tina Ibsen from the Tycho Brahe Planetarium in Copenhagen.
People from all over the country have reported seeing a fireball streak through the sky at about 18:30.
"We have received many inquiries from people who saw a fireball," Ibsen told TV2.
"However, no-one has reported a bang or a sound, which indicates the meteor burnt up before it hit the Earth's surface."
Ibsen contends the phenomenon of a 'shooting star' is nothing unusual.
Comment: NASA space data supports citizens' observations that - meteor fireball activity is increasing dramatically!
Each year the Earth is hit by some 100,000 tonnes of meteoroids from outer space, but most of them burn up before they hit the ground.
In February, a meteorite crashed down in northeastern Zealand and the Natural History Museum later examined fragments of the stone, which weighed about one kilogram.
There is more information about the meteor that was seen from Denmark at [Link] Actually its path was over Southern Sweden.
The meteor over Poland is not likely to be the same, if the timestamp is correct, in which case they are more than an hour apart, and Poland and Scandinavia are in the same time zone.
In the past few months, there have been quite a number of meteorites over Northern Europe if this list at [Link] ->click "Observationer" is valid. It is true we have entered the dark part of the year, but judging from the times of observation, many would have been observed even if they had fallen during summer. One may also compare to the previous year where a lot fewer were caught.