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Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
meteoritics and planetary science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.09
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1945-5100
pISSN - 1086-9379
DOI - 10.1111/maps.12362
Subject(s) - meteor (satellite) , meteoroid , geology , asteroid , meteorite , meteorology , geodesy , physics , remote sensing , astronomy
End of flight fragmentation of the 02:44:30 UT, 18 November 2012, fireball over the San Francisco Bay Area in California (shown ina horizontally mirrored image to depict the time series from left to right). These photographs were taken from a distance of about 65 km byRobert P. Moreno Jr. from Santa Rosa, using a hand‐held Canon EOS 7D digital still camera (200‐mm focal length), at a rate of four frames persecond. This compilation of images shows several discrete fragment trains trailing the leading fragment, each of which was generated coincidentwith flares in the meteor light curve recorded by other cameras. Six of the surviving meteorites were recovered in the town of Novato followingpublication of the fall area calculated by Peter Jenniskens (SETI Institute and NASA Ames Research Center) based on video observations of thefireball by the Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance project. Photo: Robert P. Moreno Jr., compilation by Jim Albers.