I re-calculated the 19 Nov 2022 Lake Ontario meteorite fall. Most of the
meteorites landed in the lake, in shallow water reportedly less than ~70' deep.
Some meteorites up to 230g are seen landing off of Vineland Station but larger
masses almost certainly fell down-track as well.
Howdy all
There was a meteorite fall yesterday afternoon in New Jersey,
with one meteorite falling through a house. Radar indicates this was a larger
fall than just a single stone, although overall mass is fairly low. I am
working on the data now, but am updating the NASA
A SpaceX Dragon trunk re-entered over AZ, NM, CO last night. Radar indicates
large pieces reached the ground in CO and perhaps elsewhere. I'll have an
update on NASA Meteorite Falls later today.
Cheers,
Marc Fries
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There was a noontime bolide over eastern Maine this past Saturday which
produced a meteorite fall. There was only one NEXRAD radar in range of this
event but it appears in four radar sweeps, complete with short-range turbulence
from falling rocks. Details can be found here:
Greetings all
Radar, GLM, eyewitness, and other data indicate a voluminous new
meteorite fall outside of McAllen, TX yesterday afternoon. I will post images
and a strewn field map ASAP on the ARES Meteorite Falls web page.
https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/
I have finished calculating the landing sites for all of the radar signatures
in the Muskogee fall, and they produced a nicely defined strewn field. I
cannot post the Google Earth kmz on the NASA website just because there is no
file-sharing mechanism there. Feel free to email me at this
The strewn field is now published for the Muskogee event. This was created
using the newest version of Jormungandr which is still in mid-validation, so I
may update it. Even if so it shouldn't change much.
Evidence suggests large meteorites fell near the airport, in the 100g range.
Greetings
It appears that this event on AMS resulted in a meteorite fall:
https://ams.imo.net/members/imo_view/event/2023/374
The event occurred at 03:38:50 AM local time on 20 January 2023,
or 0938:50 UTC. It appears in GLM data and in data from four separate
Yes that same Grimsby. They get a new meteorite fall for 2022. Don't get mad
at me, I just report these things!
Web page is up at: https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/
I am also posting tweets under my own account. Find it by searching for Marc
Fries, @WarrantyViolatr Be advised that
Howdy
A new meteorite fall occurred on 26 Sep 2022 UTC east of Junction
City, GA. Meteorites have been recovered from this event.
Details can be found at:
https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/
Cheers,
Marc Fries
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I have posted a NASA page for the recent Colorado event:
https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/events/coalmont-co
This is a POSSIBLE meteorite fall. It only produced one radar signature but I
am including it because the signature is fairly strong and features short-range
turbulence.
Howdy
I've found something interesting in radar data from the 24 Aug
event over Colorado and would like to ask for input. All radar observations of
this event were from moderate to long range as the relatively nearby Cheyenne
radar was down. The Front Range (KFTG) radar shows a
After a series of computer-based misadventures, I have (finally) posted a NASA
Meteorite Falls page for the Salt Lake City meteorite fall:
https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/
To date more than a dozen meteorites have been recovered. To the best of my
knowledge they were all on the
I have been on international travel for almost two weeks, and the loaner
computer I was using "bricked". I've been without a computer or email for
almost two weeks as a result. On 15 August I sent an email to the List from my
phone to try to get the word out, but that apparently didn't work.
A remarkable meteorite fall has occurred east of Natchez MS. This event was
widely reported in media because loud sonic booms were reported over a wide
area. This was a daytime fireball and a single video (as far as I know) has
emerged on Twitter.
Weather radar records a nearly vertical
A significant meteorite fall has occurred outside Natchez, MS yesterday at 8AM
local time. Detailed strewn field to follow soon.
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We've had a bunch of fireballs with dozens of AMS eyewitness
reports over the last couple of months. In going back over them I found a
really nice one that escaped my notice:
https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2022/740
The videos of
Howdy all
After parsing through some more data I've convinced myself that
there was a (probably small) meteorite fall near Patch Grove, WI on 20 January.
NASA Meteor Watch (look them up on Facebook) reports that this fireball was
very slow-moving, near the lower limit of infall
Howdy all
AMS' meteor event 512 may have produced a fall, as there is an
interesting radar signature that matches in time and place:
https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2022/512
The bolide was traveling from NE to SW according to AMS. I've
found
Quick update...
https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/events/cape-may-courthouse-nj
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I forgot to mention - the radar signatures appear over land, just north of Cape
May, NJ. There isn't a lot of land there, but this is a special event that
merits extra effort. More soon.
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Howdy all
I have found some interesting radar returns associated with the New
Jersey daytime bolide on 13 Nov 2021. I am sending this email as advance
notice that more information is coming, and to give as much time as possible
for others to start looking into the data. This is AMS
Howdy all
Re: the 16 Oct 2021 daytime fireball seen in video from Tucson. On
further examination, the expanding-ring feature on radar appears to be birds
leaving their roosts at daybreak, and it is just a coincidence that it appears
in the same 10-minute GLM exposure as the bolide.
There was a daytime bolide over the AZ/NM/Mexico area this morning (16 Oct
2021) at 1323 UTC which may have generated a meteorite fall. The American
Meteor Society is reporting it here:
https://fireball.amsmeteors.org/members/imo_view/event/2021/6611
At the time of this writing, the AMS is
I've posted some data on the Washington debris fall from last 26 March. Radar
signatures from this event persist for about two hours after the event, and
some early-arriving signatures appear to be massive objects. The strewn field
lies along a line which covers most of the state and appears
AMS reports four significant fireballs over the weekend:
https://amsmeteors.org/2021/03/four-fireballs-spotted-during-the-week-end/
I checked the three stateside events on NEXRAD radar and couldn't find anything
convincing. The Pennsylvania one does show up in GLM imagery, in the GOES-16
Try as I might, I can't find radar signatures to go with the recent event in
Vermont. Has anyone had any luck with it?
Cheers,
Marc Fries
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If any new falls occur between now and then, well I'm working on
that. I'll find a way to disseminate that information.
Cheers,
Marc
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Howdy all
For the past several years I've run Galactic Analytics on
Facebook. It has been a freely available forum to discuss meteors and
meteorite falls, and a convenient site for me to disseminate radar data showing
potential meteorite falls. When I started this, Facebook was
Howdy all
There is a recent event in the AMS logs for a ~1 PM fireball.
This event seems to have passed directly over DFW headed NE. It looks to me
like the ground track was rather long, as reports from DFW spotted the fireball
both SW and NE of DFW.
Howdy ladies and gents
I am working with summer intern Colleen Laird from Case Western Reserve
U. to develop mathematical tools for quantifying meteorite falls from
radar data. Colleen has made superb progress and we should soon be able
to offer estimates for the total mass that falls in
I can always tell when y¹all are up to something. The list becomes
really, really quietŠ Heheh.
Good luck,
Marc
On 5/18/16, 12:26 AM, "Meteorite-list on behalf of
meteorite-list-requ...@meteoritecentral.com"
Howdy all
Back on 18 Nov 2009 there was a huge bolide over Salt Lake City, UT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJFejgd9bSE
The following morning, locals reported seeing high-altitude dust
lingering over the city. At the time I figured it was a coincidence, but
in retrospect I
Found the pic! Dale Romero knew of it - turns out spaceweather.com ran it
as a Pic of the Day in November of 2009:
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1=19=11=2009
Thank you all for the replies!
Cheers,
Marc Fries
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I don¹t think it is a bolide, because at 1:07 something goes from right to
left in the same area, coming from off-frame to the right. I think you¹re
looking at something making a loop; a bird, nearby bug, or perhaps a
drone. Still, I¹ll look at the radar imagery and see if anything shows
up. Do
Theoretically, sure; a bolide could skip out of the atmosphere and return
on a second pass. Or at least I¹ve been told this by people who¹ve spent
more time on it than myself and I tend to believe them. But in that case,
³slow moving² is not an option. You would need a very fast-moving,
massive
I concur; airplane contrail. If I wanted to, I could point out how close
they are to a NASA center that hosts experts on the subjectŠ Nah.
Cheers,
Marc Fries
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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 13:25:14 + (UTC)
From: drtanuki drtan...@yahoo.com
To:
Howdy, all
I¹ve examined this event and I don¹t agree that this feature is a debris
cloud. It is visible in radar imagery about 15 minutes prior to the
eyewitness accounts of sonic booms. It is also missing some of the
diagnostic features of a meteorite fall, namely internal turbulence
True! Sorry; what I meant to say was that there are no eyewitness reports
-=of an actual meteor=-. Unless I¹ve missed something, this is true for
all eyewitness reporting sites.
Cheers,
Marc Fries
On 10/15/14, 10:10 AM, drtanuki drtan...@yahoo.com wrote:
Marc, Thanks! Mystery plot
I was wondering if this was going to turn up on the mailing list or not... We
arrived at this property, obtained permission from the landowners to search it,
and were approached by this gent who was upset because he was there before us.
It doesn't work that way, and in any case it's up to the
Howdy all
I've returned to my day job from a trip to the WI strewn field. I
arrived with my boots worn in, and left with my boots worn out! Even though I
left without finding a stone, I had a magnificent time and would gladly do it
all again. I got to participate as other
Radar shows it much bigger than eight miles; I put it at 14x11 miles
at a minimum. This one made a mess!
Cheers,
Marc Fries
On Apr 23, 2010, at 1:36 AM, Jeff Kuyken wrote:
Hi all,
Mike Farmer asked me to forward this to the list regarding the stone
West
of Mineral Point.
Cheers,
Those kids will never forget this. Magnificent stuff!
Cheers,
Marc Fries
On Apr 22, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Richard Kowalski wrote:
Mike asked me to post this. If the link below does not work, it is
the same one I posted in my earlier message
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I love that idea! I like how it emphasizes some of the best
attributes of meteorite hunting - public outreach and just plain
getting people excited about this stuff. Solves the problem of
multiple Livingstons as well.
Cheers,
Marc Fries
On Apr 22, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Darryl Pitt
My take on the radar data includes a generally NW to SE track. This
event shows up on three different radars! Magnificent stuff.
Cheers,
MDF
On Apr 15, 2010, at 1:12 PM, fallingfus...@wi.rr.com fallingfus...@wi.rr.com
wrote:
Looks like WNW to ESE. This camera is pointing nearly
Heheh Funny how fast the NWS guys jumped on this! You can
probably thank the Meteorite Men episode for it, in all honesty.
Outstanding!
On Apr 15, 2010, at 8:25 AM, JoshuaTreeMuseum wrote:
For what it's worth, they caught the smoke trail on Doppler.
Howdy
I'm glad y'all are enjoying the abstract. I've been looking forward to
that one, and I'm actually working on the poster to go with it as I sit
here. I'll add another one to Rob's list - Portales Valley shows up in data
from multiple radars, although they are all at extended range and
What a beautiful meteorite! My first take on it is that it must have
crystallized directly from a melt. The pyramidal forms looks like dendrites
complete with a preferred orientation. Dendrites do not form in solids like
Widmannstatten patterns do they form by solidification from a liquid.
First off, I¹m back! We had a very successful ANSMET season this year and
collected 1010 meteorites (with probably a few terrestrials in there). The
weather was spectacular and allowed us to put about 750 miles on our
snowmobiles while searching.
As for this meteor I¹ve pulled the radar data
That hole has definitely been dug up. But it also doesn¹t appear to be a
foot deep. Perhaps in a 10 year old¹s imagination it is.
I just ran the numbers, and if we assume a spherical body (which I have to
do) moving at its aerodynamically-limited speed then a 48 g iron meteorite
would be
This one appears to have produced a strewn field approximately 20-25 km in
length with a very prominent smoke trail. First one there can have it!
36.7990 N 122.8979 W
And it looked like this (scroll down to ³sunset fireball²):
Well ain¹t that a hoot - I sent him the same images a couple of weeks ago.
I even used the same background image! Peter Brown probably thinks we're a
single person with multiple personalities or something.
I'd say there's a potential return in the next data set at about 2.5 km
altitude, but it
Fantastic stuff! Looks like Hopper has bestowed you with some serious luck.
Buy that dog some steak!
Cheers,
MDF
On 10/5/09 3:34 PM, Ruben Garcia mrmeteor...@gmail.com wrote:
I forgot to mention that my rare find was (it's cut now) a complete
stone weighing 157 grams. It has large olivine
I've also had mixed results with the nickel allergy kit, but I think I've
figured out how to get reasonably reliable results.
I think the problem is that the companies who make these things probably
have liability lawyers telling them to err on the side of false positives
(which won't really
Yup. And how does one form such a thing...? And is it twisted, or did
something else happen here? Think Imilac...
On 8/20/09 9:46 AM, Darren Garrison cyna...@charter.net wrote:
Look at this close up, especially at the shadows. Lots of jagged slivers of
twisted metal!
You¹d first have to convince me that, in the entire span of time that this
rock sat exposed on the surface, the winds were never (even once) strong
enough to move them along sufficiently to leave them on top of the rock.
Bear in mind that the entire surrounding terrain is covered with wind-blown
The gent who wrote the Red Mars trilogy, Kim Stanley Robinson, wrote a short
appendix to one of the books in the series. The details are a little
sketchy to me now (been a while since I read them), but if I recall
correctly the appendix was titled, ³The First Recorded Instance of
Aerophagy² and
I've been wondering if someone would ask that...Kinda looks like Imilac,
eh?
On 8/7/09 9:54 AM, cdtuc...@cox.net cdtuc...@cox.net wrote:
Pete, List,
Very interesting photo.
I have a question about it's morphology?
Why does it look like that? Why does it have so many holes / dents?
Magnificent! Tho it does make me glad there isn¹t a Nantucket meteorite.
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Science pokes at its rocks from the sky
And measures them nice clean and dry
But they fell in the dirt
Got wiped with a shirt
And now our jollies are all from fungi
Heh heh heh
Call it ³An ode to examining Murchison and Allende as opposed to Antarctics²
;-)
Cheers,
MDF
On 7/22/09 4:09 PM,
Okay, now let me see if I've got this straight... You're sitting there
rubbing your hands in glee and cackling over your own private pile of
freshly-fallen stones, saying that the key to recovering as many meteorites
as possible is to get the public involved...
I can't agree more! How 'bout
That¹s a good question. There's one major difference between a
meteor-produced sonic boom and thunder - altitude. Most thunderstorms occur
below 10 km altitude while fireballs occur well up in the 20-30 km range.
That means that the fireball should propagate to a wider area, but it seems
in
So we¹ve got folks looking over the seismic data, an astronomer¹s take on
the still photo, a nice .kmz by Elton... This is turning into a real ³stone
soup² fireball event. I¹m diggin¹ it.
Cheers,
Marc Fries
On 7/9/09 11:08 AM, Kelly Beatty jkellybea...@comcast.net wrote:
folks...
my
Speaking of debris a lot
of dust is generated in these trails that settles to the ground after the
event so someone please remember to sample the surfaces of felled trees,
gutter spouts, etc. looking for micrometeorite spheres.
I second the motion. In the event that no meteorites turn up, a
Wow. This has gone from a side trip to WTFia to a full-blown
start-forwarding-the-mail experience. The behavior of the media doesn't
surprise me in the slightest, but up until now I thought the Bad Astronomy
guy was using that name in jest. Thanks for the update.
On 6/16/09 12:47 PM,
Wow - you really are new to the list! ;-)
some of you might have a shot at becoming
stand-up comedians if you ever want to change professions. The repartee and
camaraderie are delightful. A
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Yeah, I saw this article. For some reason the press tends to go
extra-special whenever they report on military matters. My favorite part
is this:
The upshot: Space rocks that explode in the atmosphere are
now classified.
Yeah, that's it. You're not allowed to know that meteors exist.
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Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 12:08:51 -0700
To: Fries, Marc D marc.d.fr...@jpl.nasa.gov
Subject: Re: Answer
Here's the ad
Postdoctoral Position: Antarctic Meteorite Recovery and Planetary Research
The Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) program at Case
Western Reserve
Rats; 1986 is outside the window for retrieving archived weather radar data.
I'd LOVE to see what an iron meteorite fall looks like on radar!
Congrats on a magnificent new meteorite!
Cheers,
MDF
On 5/26/09 4:27 PM, Ruben Garcia meteoritem...@yahoo.com wrote:
Wow Greg,
That's a cool
Try again; this time without html...
To all the folks who've already been looking for this potential fall, sorry
about the begins the search thing. I'm certain that I mentioned to the
journo that others had been looking for it, but that part didn't make it
into print.
Cheers,
MDF
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Black Diamonds: A interesting PBS NOVA
Wish I¹d seen this one when it came out; I¹d have gladly written a rebuttal
paper. Not quite sure how they can claim there is a complete absence of a
deep Earth fingerprint, especially since they point out the low delta-C13
values in carbonadoes themselves. The same range of values is seen in
A carbonado with fusion crust? My skepticism meter is pegged. If true it
would be of extraordinary scientific interest, but the problem is that
diamond doesn¹t melt. It evaporates. Silicates are content to form what is
basically a liquid silicon oxide, but carbon oxides (CO, CO2) are gases,
Howdy all
I haven¹t heard from anyone searching for meteorites from the Virginia
Beach fireball from last week, so I¹ll post this for general consumption.
If anyone is there, could you collect samples of meteorite particles for
analysis? By that I mean covering a magnet with Saran Wrap (or
Should read ...from the southwest...
ground on the southern tip of the Delmarva peninsula with the help of strong
winds from the southeast, and even if all the sizable pieces turn out to be
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I lost track of who was producing the strewn field map for the West
fall, so I need to send this out to everyone. Any word on when that map
will be available? It would be very helpful to compare it to the radar data
and start work on a method of predicting strewn fields from
Howdy ladies and gents
I have looked over the radar data from the VA Beach fireball this past
Sunday (I¹m calling it VA Beach because that was the location of the closest
eyewitness). I believe there is a consistent debris trail in the data.
This track in the data evolves over a forty minute
That's supposed to be NNE, not NEN. SSE instead of SES, too. duh
On 4/1/09 11:40 AM, Fries, Marc D marc.d.fr...@jpl.nasa.gov wrote:
Howdy ladies and gents
I have looked over the radar data from the VA Beach fireball this past
Sunday (I¹m calling it VA Beach because
I can quit worrying about getting thwacked by Uranus, then. phew
On 3/30/09 9:42 AM, Greg Redfern gredf...@earthlink.net wrote:
The VA-MD sighting is now being classified as the spent Russian Expedition 19
booster: http://wtop.com/?nid=25=1636442 http://wtop.com/?nid=25sid=1636442
.
All
My two cents, Ocause what the hell, eh? We¹re up to several dollars by now.
Call whatever you want a hammer, because I don¹t think anyone will ever
agree on a ³lower cut-off level of importance² for a hammer-worthy target.
Just include a description of whatever the ³hammer² hit, and let the
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Cheers,
MDF
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Subject: Meteorite over Denmark Jan 17 has been found
Hey You,
FYI: The meteorite that fell over DK on Jan 17
Eh... This happened 26 Feb, but didn¹t become a news item until the $10k
offer. Danger, Will Robinson...
And that debris looks like part of the car dashboard or something to me.
Man-made, anyways.
On 3/12/09 9:06 AM, Eric Wichman e...@meteoritewatch.com wrote:
What?! A meteorite or space
Whatever hit it looks (to me) like it fragmented completely when it hit the
windshield. The dashboard doesn¹t have one deep gouge in it like a solid
object would inflict; it has a shotgun-spray of spallation damage. Whatever
hit the thing wound up as tiny pieces scattered around inside the car.
Bear in mind that you only find the big rocks when you walk a strewn field.
Meteors routinely produce clouds of falling sand-grain-sized (or smaller)
debris. Much of this is in the form of metallic or metal-oxide spherules
great radar reflectors!
Cheers,
MDF
On 3/11/09 10:57 AM, E.P.
I¹m flattered; thank you.
For those of y¹all who¹ve asked me about the Westchester fall, I am still
working through some ambiguity in the data. I will send an image to those
who already asked - anyone else can email me off-list and I¹m happy to share
the radar image from that meteor. Its
If anyone is planning on visiting this meteor sighting site, please drop me
an email. I do not want to go, but I have some information.
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I¹ve received a few ...em... ³spirited² responses to my last email that
tell me that it didn¹t exactly read the way I intended. I wasn¹t trying to
be a hero because I bought a plane ticket, I was trying to say that
traveling on ³your own dime² isn¹t what scientists are used to
This scientist could only make it there for one and a half days, on my own
dime, and would have loved to stay. A downside of our profession is that
most of us have to account for our (fairly pricey) time and don¹t have much
in the way of flexibility.
I¹m very interested in seeing the tally from
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