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

Matthias Bärmann majbaermann at web.de
Wed Feb 15 12:47:50 EST 2023


Congratulations to the finder*s.


Am 15.02.2023 um 18:17 schrieb Chris Peterson via Meteorite-list:
> 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
>>>
>>> *******************************
>>> 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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