[meteorite-list] Small, earth-impacting asteroid/meteoroid videos now showing up onlineIt 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 >> ______________________________________________ >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com >> https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com >> https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com > https://pairlist2.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list |
Help support this free archive: |