17 May 2016

Huge Fireball with sonic and fragmentation reports NE US May 17th 2016 00:50 EDT (04:50 UTC) Multiple videos. $20,000 reward for a piece of the meteorite weighing at least 2.2 pounds.

Huge  Fireball  with sonic and fragmentation reports NE US  May 17th 2016 00:50 EDT (04:50 UTC) Multiple videos.  $20,000 reward for a piece of the meteorite weighing at least 2.2 pounds.
MeteorRats Scramble! Rocks likely on the ground!

“I’m not going to say absolutely it didn’t produce meteorites on the ground, but I have not seen a Doppler signature that would suggest that,” Cooke said Friday night from the Marshall Space Flight Center near Huntsville, Alabama.
http://www.pressherald.com/2016/05/21/scientist-says-nasa-is-wrong-about-meteorites-reaching-maine/

UPDATE: METEOR ORBIT RECREATED BY NASA METEOR WATCH OFFICE

https://www.facebook.com/NasaMeteorWatch/videos/1101744243218134/
This animation shows the orbit of the fireball that occurred over New Hampshire/Maine around 12:50 AM EDT on May 17 (night of May 16). Once the meteoroid gets very close to Earth, the view shifts to the fireball's perspective, depicting what a camera attached to the meteor would show as it plunges towards Earth.


Credit- AMS

Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Ontario (Canada) and Québec (Canada)

The Maine Mineral & Gem Museum suspects the meteor crashed into the woods of northwestern Maine, based on preliminary findings. It's offering a $20,000 reward if someone recovers a piece of the meteorite weighing at least 2.2 pounds.http://phys.org/news/2016-05-meteor-captured-dashcam-video-england.html#jCp

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