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Annama meteorite recovered after Finnish Fireball Network tracking

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A small dark meteorite fragment beside a GPS receiver and ruler
A fragment of the Annama meteorite as found in 2014, with GPS receiver for scale Underminer, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Finnish Fireball Network cameras at three sites recorded a fireball over the Kola Peninsula on April 19, 2014. Searchers using the computed fall zone found two small fragments in late May, the first meteorite recovered from the Finnish network's observations.

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  1. FirsthandNew meteorite recovered in northern Russia based on observations made by the Finnish Fireball NetworkUrsa Astronomical Association / 2014
  2. OtherOrbit and dynamic origin of the recently recovered Annama's H5 chondriteMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (arXiv preprint) / 2015

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