A Glowing Fireball Streaked Across the Sky over Hungary

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The slow-moving meteor shone brightly over the eastern part of the country.

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A long-burning fireball passed over Hungary after 9 p.m. on Friday, wrote Időkép, whose several webcams detected the phenomenon. The meteor shone over the eastern part of the country and was visible for almost 11 seconds before finally fading away. According to Wikipedia, a fireball is a meteor whose brightness reaches or exceeds magnitude -5, i.e. the brightness of Venus. A solid material of 1 cm or larger is usually required to form a fireball…