[meteorite-list] Small, earth-impacting asteroid/meteoroid videos now showing up online

Graham Ensor graham.ensor at gmail.com
Tue Feb 14 05:29:08 EST 2023


It was heading from France and terminated it seems just as it reached the
channel so likely everything is in the sea if it did drop anything. Not
seen any predictions that it made landfall in France or the UK. So close
and yet so far.

Graham

On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 11:27 PM Darryl Pitt via Meteorite-list <
meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:

>
>
> Nice!   :-)
>
> On Feb 12, 2023, at 11:10 PM, Matson, Rob D. [US-US] via Meteorite-list <
> meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>
> A small (~1-meter) asteroid that astronomers have been tracking for
> several hours earlier today crossed over the English Channel one hour ago
> (3:00 UT 13 February) and broke up over the coast of Normandy. Many videos
> of it are already appearing on the web. Here’s one taken from Brighton, UK
> (south coast of England) looking across the channel toward France:
>
> https://twitter.com/KadeFlowers/status/1624967147708420103
>
> Should be numerous meteorites on the ground – the meteoroid was at about
> 40-km altitude at the point it crossed the French coastline north of
> Saint-Martin-aux-Buneaux, so nearly all of it should be over land.  --Rob
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