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

Finbarr Connolly finconnolly71 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 20 11:21:38 EST 2023


Thought that the number of cameras would have outweighed the decreasing
time spent under the skies, but obviously not.

F.

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 12:18 AM Michael Farmer <mike at meteoriteguy.com>
wrote:

> The problem is modern society. Lights. TV’s. Nobody is outside anymore.
>
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> On Thursday, February 16, 2023, 9:14 AM, Finbarr Connolly via
> Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>
> First French fall since 2011 and only the 4th in the last 45 years.
>
> There were 25 falls in the 45 years between 1830 and 1875.
>
> Finbarr.
>
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 5:48 PM Matthias Bärmann via Meteorite-list <
> meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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
> >
> > *******************************
> > Chris L Peterson
> > Cloudbait Observatory
> > https://www.cloudbait.com
> >
> > 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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