Sightings2016

Stubenberg fireball and meteorite fall, Bavaria

When: 6 Mar 2016
Where: Stubenberg, Germany
Sources: 1 public source

The 1,320 g main mass of the Stubenberg meteorite recovered after the March 2016 fireball H. Raab ( de.Vesta ), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A very bright bolide lit up Upper Austria, Bavaria and southwestern Czech Republic on the night of 6 March 2016. Czech European Fireball Network cameras pinned down the fall zone, and the first meteorites were found near Stubenberg six days later.

Sources

OtherThe Stubenberg meteorite: An LL6 chondrite fragmental breccia recovered soon after precise prediction of the strewn field (Bischoff et al.) (opens in a new tab)Meteoritics & Planetary Science (Wiley) / 2017-05-30

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