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, heading west over Salt Lake City. This was a large fireball, and many meteorites fell to the ground.
| Entry Date/Time: | 2022-08-13 14:30:15 UTC |
| End Location: | 40km W of Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Endpoint Coordinates: | 40.7001°N 112.2707°W |
| Reference Altitude: | 33 km above sea level |
| Energy / Mass Estimate: | ~0.4 kT TNT / 10,000 kg |
| Reference Speed: | 18 km/s |
| Bearing: | 272° NW |
| Slope: | 76° from vertical |
| Total Known Weight (TKW): | > 3.7 kg |
| Classification: | H chondrite* |
| Event Links: | AMS Event 4942-2022 |
Only a few videos of the meteor were captured and posted online. These videos were used to triangulate the meteor trajectory.
Many meteorites have been found for this event, Join the discussion on social media to learn more. Details coming soon…
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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.
The author and founder of Strewnify.com, an automotive controls engineer, with a passion for physics.
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