A meteorite from the June 23rd fireball witnessed from Tucson Arizona has been found!

Edit: Jack Schrader a member of the Meteorite List announced this morning that he has recovered a 155.6 gram stone  meteorite from the fireball that was witnessed from Tucson Arizona on the 23rd of June.  9 days have passed since his find and at this time no further pieces have been announced to have been found.

The meteorite exhibits fresh black fusion crust from the extreme heat from entering through our atmosphere. You can also see the white scratch marks on the surface of the stones fusion crust where the meteorite impacted the ground.

Video Of The Tucson Fireball:

As you can see from the video, there were three separate fireballs. One larger mass and two smaller ones. All three blink out and fizzle fairly quickly. Many hunters I spoke with thought that there were no stones dropped from this fireball do to it’s very brief appearance. But that is not the case. It appears now that this fireball did in fact drop at least one meteorite on the ground.

A single stone… So far…

FOUND!!
The first stone from the fireball sighted over Southern Arizona June 23
at 9:22 pm in situ as recovered by Jack L. Schrader of Sierra Vista,
Arizona. This stone weighs 155.6 grams and appears to be a brecciated H
chondrite. The stone was recovered 44 hours and 58 minutes after the
fireball was sighted. This is the first fall recovered in Arizona
since the Holbrook fall of July 19, 1912. SOURCE:
http://www.rocksfromspace.org/July_4_2009.html

Meteorite List Post: Arizona “Tucson Fireball” Meteorite Found

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