Glanerbrug meteorite memorial presented on 25th ‘fallday’

On 7 April 2015 at 14:00 UTC / 16:00 CEST a memorial with a plate to commemorate the fall of the Glanerbrug meteorite on 7 April 1990 (18:32:38 UTC) was revealed at the corner of Gronausestraat and Esmarkelaan (52°13’0.60″N, 6°57’5.37″E) in Glanerbrug, the Netherlands.

Glanerbrug meteorite memorial

Glanerbrug meteorite memorial / Image: RTV Oost

RTV Oost

TV Enschede (report starts at 5:20 running time)

Location of the Glanerbrug meteorite memorial

Location of the Glanerbrug meteorite memorial

Location of the memorial close to the orginal fall location

Location of the memorial close to the orginal fall location

It was Joan Oldersma and Henk Louis Maas’s initiative (Maas (left), Oldersma (right)) to commemorate the 25th ‘fallday’ of the latest Dutch meteorite fall with a memorial close to the actual fall location.

RTV Oost presents the first images and an interview with Henk L. Maas and Joan Oldersma: LINK