[meteorite-list] Introducing the Worlds Newest Meteorite fall -Creston
Robert Verish
bolidechaser at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 19 14:39:01 EST 2015
Congrats to Robert Ward for his persistence and diligence in researching this fall.
It was well-earned and deserving that he should make the first find.
The only thing that I can add to this thread is that (over on facebook) Marc Fries has given credit
to Rob Matson for doing the lions-share of crunching-out the numbers regarding the astrometry for this fall.
I'm not subscribed to facebook and can't supply a link, but there is an informative thread over there,
if you can access it. Hadn't seen Rob's name mentioned here, so felt compelled to mention his name, AND
point-out the obvious, that Doppler-weather radar appears to be working again! Hallelujah!!!
Bob V.
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On Thu, 11/19/15, Sean T. Murray via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Introducing the Worlds Newest Meteorite fall -Creston
To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
Date: Thursday, November 19, 2015, 10:59 AM
Robert Ward is in the
field in California, and asked me to pass this along
to the list! He recovered the first stone
from the fall, and is continuing
his
expedition.
Make sure to
click the link below to see the story, along with photos
from
Robert on his Website,
robertwardmeteorites.com...
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On October 23, 2015, at 0547 UTC, a large
fireball lit up the rolling hills
of wine
country east of Paso Robles.
The bolide stunned onlookers with a multitude
of colors as it broke up into
many pieces.
The magnitude of the fall was so great that the spectacle
was
even observed several states away.
Dozens of witnesses close to the ground
path heard sonic booms shortly after the
fireball terminated.
By the
next day, the American Meteor Society had received over 120
reports.
At first I was confused by what I
saw in the data in the various AMS
reports.
As I sorted through a number of eye witness descriptions, it
was
soon clear that there were two events
near to one another, both in distance
and
in time. I began working through the reports from the larger
event
individually, narrowing down the area
to San Luis Obispo County. And
focusing on
eye witness reports in this area, I found one report in
particular that caught my attention. The eye
witness reported what sounded
"like
bombs falling," and that the meteor had passed directly
overhead.
I contacted Marc
Fries with the location and suggested the fall was probably
within a few miles of the eye witnesses
location. Within minutes, Marc found
radar
returns in the area that corresponded with the time of the
event.
On October 27th, my
wife Anne Marie and I arrived in the area under the
returns Marc Fries had discovered. Within
twenty minutes, we found a stone
that had
hit a metal fence post and shattered, showering the road
embankment
with fragments. We recovered
395.7 grams of material from the site and
subsequently reassembled the majority of the
stone.
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More here, with pictures:
http://robertwardmeteorites.com/creston-california/
We'll be posting more
pictures, information and details on the expedition as
the hunt progresses.
Sean Murray
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