[meteorite-list] possible Alabama lunar meteorite fall

From: Jarod <bngservices_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 01:13:10 -0600
Message-ID: <91C30A7F-C31D-4E63-B81B-D4599E7BDFAE_at_gmail.com>

What?s going on? I am in Alabama.

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> On Nov 18, 2018, at 1:33 PM, Ruben Garcia via Meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
>
> Several of us are considering going unfortunately we won't be able to leave until after Thanksgiving.....
>
> On Nov 18, 2018 12:31 PM, "Matson, Rob D. via Meteorite-list" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com> wrote:
> Hi Randy,
>
> It hadn't been mentioned yet on the Met-List. I worked this fall last week (unaware
> that Marc Fries had already done so), so the fortunate result of the independent
> analysis is that two people came up with the same answer and the exact same
> radar returns. (I also analyzed the Carrollton, AL, seismic station data which has
> an unmistakable sonic boom just 106 seconds after the terminal burst of the
> bolide.) I'm 100% sure these returns are associated with the fall since they are
> practically colocated with the seismometer.
>
> Upper atmospheric winds were high at the time of the fall -- jet stream was
> about 125 knots blowing almost due east. This is why the Doppler radar
> returns subsequent to the initial high-altitude westerb return at 15 km are
> displaced to the east of it. At the altitudes below the 2.5-km altitude radar
> cluster, the winds were below 30 knots and blowing more to the southeast
> or ESE. This is supported by the small southeastward shift from the central,
> linear-looking return, and the wider cluster to its lower right that was
> scanned less than a minute later. The first place I would search would be
> the southeast edge of the 2.5-km altitude cluster.
>
> Unfortunately, this is a tough search area. --Rob
> ________________________________________
> From: Meteorite-list [meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] on behalf of Korotev, Randy via Meteorite-list [meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com]
> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2018 8:26 AM
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> Subject: EXTERNAL: [meteorite-list] possible Alabama lunar meteorite fall
>
> If there has been discussion of this on the List, I missed it
>
> https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/
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> Randy L. Korotev
> Research Professor, retired
> Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
> Washington University in Saint Louis
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