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  • APG-2021-029

    Recovered Fragment, Regional Fall Event

    Type: Meteor Event Location: Desert observing node, ground recovery Magnitude: — Date: 2021-04-03 Status: Confirmed Observer: K. Whitfield

    A bright fireball was independently reported by two network nodes on the same night, with triangulated trajectory data suggesting a probable fall zone within a few kilometers of one of our desert sites. A ground search three days later recovered this fragment.

    A cut-surface analysis by a university geology contact confirmed it as an ordinary chondrite — a common meteorite type, not a rare find, but a satisfying confirmation that our trajectory triangulation from two amateur setups was accurate enough to actually locate a fall zone.

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