SUMMARY

SUMMARY

This event was a widely reported late-evening bolide over northern Arkansas. The bolide fragments and appears to decelerate, and by visual appearance may have produced surviving meteorites. It occurs along a relatively flat trajectory that would spread any surviving meteorites over a long ground track.

Weather radar does not record a clear signature of falling meteorites, however. There are a few small radar signatures which might be from meteorites but they're small enough that they could also just be electronic noise. I have chosen an interesting one from the KEAX 0134 radar data set and built a strewn field with it, presented here. Ground track is assumed to follow an azimuth of 300 compass degrees. If the KEAX signature is correct then the fireball terminus occurred about 2 miles south of Eureka Springs, AR.

There is little radar evidence that this event produced a fall, but for the benefit of those who would search for it a strewn field was calculated and presented here to illustrate its general location and length. Winds were moderate but came out of the south at low altitude, slightly shifting the low-mass end of the strewn field northward.