Audenhain, Saxony, Germany – Thursday, February 09, 2023,12:12 AM local time, A small meteor fireball was observed heading east at 13 km/s, and ending at a height of 26 km above the ground. Given it’s slow speed and steep entry angle, there could be meteorites available for recovery, in the area surrounding the village of Audenhain.
The odd shape of the search area is due to a combination wind uncertainty and a high darkflight altitude, indicating that large masses (>1.6kg) could not have survived.
Search area near Audenhainthe critical search areas near Audenhain
Weather Data
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 onthe drift of meteorites.
There were only light winds at the time of the fall
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