Sightings2015

Murrili meteorite tracked by fireball cameras and dug from Lake Eyre

When: 27 Nov 2015
Where: Lake Eyre, Australia
Sources: 1 public source

The Murrili meteorite, dug from the mud of Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre in 2015 Rmhowie, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Ten Desert Fireball Network cameras recorded a fireball over South Australia. An aircraft spotted a 60 cm mark in the mud of Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre South near the predicted fall line, and on Dec. 31, 2015 a team dug the meteorite out from 42 cm down, the digital network's first recovered fall.

Sources

OtherMurrili meteorite's fall and recovery from Kati Thanda (opens in a new tab)arXiv (Sansom, Bland et al., Curtin University; Meteoritics and Planetary Science) / 2020-06-12

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