Sightings2020

Cavezzo meteorite, first find by Italy's PRISMA network

When: 1 Jan 2020
Where: Cavezzo, Italy
Sources: 2 public sources

Eight cameras of Italy's PRISMA fireball network recorded a fireball over northern Italy on the evening of 1 January 2020. A predicted fall zone and a public appeal led volunteers to two fragments near Cavezzo, Modena, on 4 January.

Sources

OtherCavezzo, the first Italian meteorite recovered by the PRISMA fireball network. Orbit, trajectory, and strewn-field (Gardiol et al.) (opens in a new tab)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (Oxford University Press) / 2021-02
OtherPRISMA and the finding of the Cavezzo meteorite (EPSC 2020 abstract) (opens in a new tab)Europlanet Science Congress (Copernicus) / 2020

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