![]() ![]() Many people witnessed its explosion in the upper atmosphere before the meteorite dropped in about 40 pieces totaling 22 pounds the fragments were buried in the ground up to a meter deep. in the Nakhla region of Alexandria, Egypt. On June 28, 1911, the Nakhla meteorite fell to Earth at approximately 9 a.m. Thirty-four meteorites thought to have originated from Mars have been cataloged from around the world, including the Nakhla meteorite. Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History ![]() Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.On February 18th, first meteorite fragment linked to this event was recovered near El Sauz TX on private property by planetary science researcher, Robert Ward of Prescott Arizona. The meteoroid broke into fragments at an altitude of 21 miles and its entry was captured by NASA’s GOES-16 satellite.įalling debris from the meteorite was recorded on NOAA’s NEXRAD doppler weather radar and this led meteorite hunters to the general location of the fall. It was estimated to be two feet in diameter and traveling at 27,000 miles per hour releasing energy equivalent to 8 tons of TNT. NASA officials have now confirmed a 1,000-pound meteor as responsible for the disruption. Last but not least, several Rio Grande Valley (Texas) area residents heard a loud boom and felt the ground shake underneath them on February 15th, 5:23PM CST. AMS Event #2023-1009: Meteorite dropper fireball over Southern Italy Feb 15: Texas It took only few days for the Italian PRISMA team to recover the first pieces of what is know now as the “Valentines Day” meteorite. The AMS and its international partners IMO and PRISMA received 33 reports about this event from Italy, Slovakia, Croatia and Montegnero. Feb 14: Italyįew hours later, another Fireball was observed in the early evening of February 14 over Southern Italy. Up to today, more than 10 meteorites fragment shave been recovered, and research teams are going on looking for pieces of this 1-m diameter asteroid. Two days later, a team of professional and enthusiastic volunteers found the first ~100g meteorite piece of what would lead to multiple recoveries. AMS Event #2023-937: Meteorite dropper fireball over Normandy, France The AMS and its international partners IMO, Vigie-Ciel and UKMON received 83 reports about this event including 17 videos. It’s only the 7th asteroid ever discovered prior its atmospheric entry. It was discovered less than seven hours before impact by Hungarian astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky, at Konkoly Observatory’s Piszkéstető Station in Mátra Mountains, Hungary. Feb 13: FranceĪsteroid 2023 CX1 (a meter-sized asteroid or meteoroid) entered Earth’s atmosphere on 13 February 2023 02:59 UTC and disintegrated as a fireball over the coast of Normandy, France along the English Channel. One can only speculate about these things now, but we hope over time continued scientific study leads to a better understanding of these events and February fireballs. However, with further study of both the material composition of the meteorites and also their orbital information some link between the events may or may not be proven. This cluster of events can currently be explained only as random chance or good fortune. Last week we witnessed three different meteorite falls and three meteorite recoveries over three days. A miraculous series of meteorite falls has occurred 10 years to the day of the famous Chelyabinsk Meteor of February 15th, 2013.
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