[meteorite-list] Introducing the Worlds Newest Meteorite fall -Creston

From: Michael Farmer <mike_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 11:48:52 -0800
Message-ID: <4FD5B072-DC57-47A6-BBEB-949306EC24F4_at_meteoriteguy.com>

Everyone (Matson/Fries)was going to get nice credit in a great write-up and press release. Sadly the information was released because someone wanted to make some money real fast. So the short a announcement typed in the field is lacking many pertinent facts.
We are in the field on top of mountains to even receive signal so Robert was unable to write much.


Michael Farmer

> On Nov 19, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Robert Verish via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>
> Congrats to Robert Ward for his persistence and diligence in researching this fall.
> It was well-earned and deserving that he should make the first find.
>
> The only thing that I can add to this thread is that (over on facebook) Marc Fries has given credit
> to Rob Matson for doing the lions-share of crunching-out the numbers regarding the astrometry for this fall.
> I'm not subscribed to facebook and can't supply a link, but there is an informative thread over there,
> if you can access it. Hadn't seen Rob's name mentioned here, so felt compelled to mention his name, AND
> point-out the obvious, that Doppler-weather radar appears to be working again! Hallelujah!!!
>
> Bob V.
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Thu, 11/19/15, Sean T. Murray via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Introducing the Worlds Newest Meteorite fall -Creston
> To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Thursday, November 19, 2015, 10:59 AM
>
> Robert Ward is in the
> field in California, and asked me to pass this along
> to the list! He recovered the first stone
> from the fall, and is continuing
> his
> expedition.
>
> Make sure to
> click the link below to see the story, along with photos
> from
> Robert on his Website,
> robertwardmeteorites.com...
>
> ----------------------
>
> On October 23, 2015, at 0547 UTC, a large
> fireball lit up the rolling hills
> of wine
> country east of Paso Robles.
>
> The bolide stunned onlookers with a multitude
> of colors as it broke up into
> many pieces.
> The magnitude of the fall was so great that the spectacle
> was
> even observed several states away.
> Dozens of witnesses close to the ground
> path heard sonic booms shortly after the
> fireball terminated.
>
> By the
> next day, the American Meteor Society had received over 120
> reports.
> At first I was confused by what I
> saw in the data in the various AMS
> reports.
> As I sorted through a number of eye witness descriptions, it
> was
> soon clear that there were two events
> near to one another, both in distance
> and
> in time. I began working through the reports from the larger
> event
> individually, narrowing down the area
> to San Luis Obispo County. And
> focusing on
> eye witness reports in this area, I found one report in
> particular that caught my attention. The eye
> witness reported what sounded
> "like
> bombs falling," and that the meteor had passed directly
> overhead.
>
> I contacted Marc
> Fries with the location and suggested the fall was probably
>
> within a few miles of the eye witnesses
> location. Within minutes, Marc found
> radar
> returns in the area that corresponded with the time of the
> event.
>
> On October 27th, my
> wife Anne Marie and I arrived in the area under the
> returns Marc Fries had discovered. Within
> twenty minutes, we found a stone
> that had
> hit a metal fence post and shattered, showering the road
> embankment
> with fragments. We recovered
> 395.7 grams of material from the site and
> subsequently reassembled the majority of the
> stone.
>
> ----------------------
>
> More here, with pictures:
> http://robertwardmeteorites.com/creston-california/
>
> We'll be posting more
> pictures, information and details on the expedition as
> the hunt progresses.
>
> Sean Murray
>
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