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

Chris Peterson clp at alumni.caltech.edu
Tue Feb 14 10:55:21 EST 2023


It was heading generally eastward over the Channel and was still burning 
when it crossed the French shoreline. It is likely to have dropped 
meteorites on land.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
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On 2/14/2023 3:29 AM, Graham Ensor via Meteorite-list wrote:
> 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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