03 February 2012
Texas Meteorite Fall 1FEB2012 Target Area Narrows - Meteorites Produced ~25Kgs 2JAN2012
Radar Obs of Meteor Events
by Marc Fries
TX DFW Area 02 Feb 2012 0157 UTC
This one is a big item at the moment, to the point that I really don’t feel the need to describe it. At this time there are three (four?) allsky camera videos of this event, and hundreds of eyewitness reports both on Dirk Ross’ lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com site and the AMSmeteors.org website.. Myself, Rob Matson and others have scoured the weather radar data of this event, and I think we were all expecting to see something like the West, TX fall in there. Unfortunately, we’ve been disappointed to date. There has been a lot of discussion and several “possibles” have been examined and discarded for one reason or another. My own “favorite” radar hit at the moment is this one from the KSHV radar directly over Edgewood, TX.... (more)
http://radarmeteorites.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/tx-dfw-area-02-feb-2012-0157-utc/
I will be soon posting an ellipse map of the potential strewnfield.
- LunarMeteorite*Hunter, Dirk Ross -Tokyo
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