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