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

[Chris Peterson]

Meteorites have now been recovered.

Models suggest a single main mass of around 1kg from the terminal 
explosion and multiple small pieces from earlier fragmentation events 
along the meteor path.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
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On 2/15/2023 3:56 AM, Graham Ensor wrote:
> Apologies for the last message. I misinterpreted the initial predictions
> and it does appear to have been heading the other way and AMS has it
> terminating near the coast slode to Dieppe and FRIPON even closer...other
> models now showing that indeed it may have dropped material on land. Good
> luck to my friends heading there for a search.
> 
> Graham
> 
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 3:55 PM Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list <
> meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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
>> Cloudbait Observatory
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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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