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

Mark Lyon mark.lyon.iivy at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 12:26:15 EST 2023


is there any more info on what was recovered and where?

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 10:17 AM Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list <
meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> *******************************
> 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
> >>
> >> *******************************
> >> Chris L Peterson
> >> Cloudbait Observatory
> >> https://www.cloudbait.com
> >>
> >> 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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