Fireball
Fireball near Apeldoorn, Gelderland
559 witness reports
559
witness reports
36
mention a boom
near Apeldoorn, Gelderland
where it was seen
Outlines: Natural Earth, US Census Bureau (public domain)
559 people across the Netherlands reported a fireball near Apeldoorn, Gelderland, to the American Meteor Society, and 36 of them heard it: a boom means the rock got low enough for its shockwave to reach the ground.
For the background, read Fireballs and meteorites in Meteors & fireballs.
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