Valentine's Day meteorite falls on a balcony in Matera

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Small dark meteorite fragments held in a hand indoors
The first fragments of the Matera meteorite recovered from a family balcony Gianfralos, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Three cameras of INAF's PRISMA network recorded a bright fireball over southern Italy on the evening of February 14, 2023. Fragments that chipped a tile on a family balcony north of Matera were recovered days later, guided by PRISMA's predicted fall area.

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  1. OfficialRecuperata la meteorite di San Valentino (PRISMA) (opens in a new tab)INAF (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica) / 2023-02-18
  2. OtherThe Matera meteorite fall (EPSC 2024 abstract) (opens in a new tab)Europlanet Science Congress (Copernicus) / 2024

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