SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, USA – August 13, 2022, 8:30 AM local time, Utah residents were shocked to see a meteor fireball in broad daylight, headingThe direction of travel of the meteoroid, relative to the ground, in clockwise degrees from North. The terms "heading" and "bearing" may be used interchangeably for projectile motion. west over Salt Lake City. This was a large fireball, and many meteorites fell to the ground.
Videos were analyzed by the Strewnify team and the new trajectory has been run through the StrewnLAB software to predict a search area. Please download and review the Google Earth files below for detailed maps of the search area.
The weather data below is sourced from weather balloons, and publicly available via NOAA’s Integrated Global Radiosonde Archive (IGRA). This data is downloaded and post-processed by the StrewnLAB algorithm, to account for changing weather patterns and weather balloon drift. The plots have altitude on the y-axis, in kilometers above sea level. The wind speed below 10km has large effect on the drift of meteorites.
There was very little wind at the time of the fall. Meteorites did not drift much.
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The direction of travel of the meteoroid, relative to the ground, in clockwise degrees from North. The terms "heading" and "bearing" may be used interchangeably for projectile motion. west over Salt Lake City. This was a large fireball, and many meteorites fell to the ground.
