SUMMARY

SUMMARY

This event was a daytime bolide seen in and around the New York city metropolitan area.  The Newark airport weather radar records evidence of a sizable meteorite fall, with signatures of falling meteorites seen in twenty-five radar sweeps as well as another two sweeps from the Fort Dix, NJ NEXRAD radar. The total elapsed radar observation time is on the order of 15 minutes, which is unusually long and may indicate low density meteorites.

Winds at the time of the event were out of the WSW, with the fireball traveling directly into the wind. The strewn field is long as a result, with small meteorites carried back in opposition to the fireball's direction of travel. The apparent low density of the meteorites also lengthens the strewn field because it allowed the meteorites to fall relatively slowly.