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Peekskill fireball videotaped across the eastern U.S. before striking a car

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The Peekskill meteorite on display in a museum
The Peekskill meteorite, which struck a parked car after the October 1992 fireball Wknight94, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A bright, fragmenting fireball crossed several eastern U.S. states and was caught on at least 16 independent videos before a meteorite struck a parked car in Peekskill, New York. Scientists used the videos to reconstruct its orbit, a well-documented natural object in the sky.

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  1. OfficialAPOD: The Car, the Hole, and the Peekskill Meteorite (2006 November 19)NASA / 2006-11-19
  2. PressOne-in-a-Billion 'Shot' Finds Mark in PeekskillThe New York Times / 1992-10-18
  3. OtherThe orbit and atmospheric trajectory of the Peekskill meteorite from video records (Brown et al.)Nature / 1994-02

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