Astromaterials Research & Exploration Science
METEORITE FALLS
DATE/TIME11/23/2023 @ 0255 UTC approx11/23/2023
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LAT/LONG33.991066 • -110.896376
33.991066
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This is a possible meteorite fall identified in archives by a citizen scientist and shared with NASA.
This event correlates in time and space with event #7320 in 2023 in the American Meteor Society archives, but does not appear in Geostationary Lightning Mapper imagery. Two videos exist showing a long-lasting fireball, but those videos do not include time stamps. Seismometer data is inconclusive.
Without a seconds-accurate time stamp for this event, all meteorite masses are rough estimates as is the strewn field. Therefore the strewn field calculations involve significant errors and the strewn field shown here is for illustration only. It is assembled starting from the assumption that the first-appearing radar signature is of meteorites of approximately 100g and later-arriving signatures are in the 10s of grams. If the meteorites are larger the strewn field will shift to the SW, and if smaller it will shift towards the NE.
Many thanks to the citizen scientist who shared this find from the archives!
