Kosice fireball and meteorite fall, Slovakia

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A small crusted stone of the Kosice meteorite
A stone from the Kosice meteorite fall in eastern Slovakia, February 2010 Jon Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

An exceptionally bright fireball crossed eastern Slovakia at night with loud explosive sounds. Clouds blocked the science camera networks, but three security cameras in Hungary filmed it, letting researchers compute its path and orbit and recover meteorites west of Kosice.

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  1. OtherKosice meteorite - overview of analyses (Porubcan, Toth, Borovicka et al., EPSC2012-715) (opens in a new tab)European Planetary Science Congress (Copernicus) / 2012

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