Federalsburg, Maryland, USA

Federalsburg, Maryland, USA – Wednesday, April 10, 2024, 3:43 AM EDT, A meteor fireball was observed heading southwest at 28 km/s, and ending at a height of 41 km above the ground. Although some small meteorites are possible from this event, it is unlikely they will be recovered, due to the high end height and uncertainty in the trajectory.

News and Video

Several videos were posted of the event, but most of them were from over 200 km away.

Search Efforts

There were no known search efforts for this event.

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StrewnLAB Maps & Data

I was contacted by one of our subscribers to analyze this event. I reviewed video data to triangulate the path of this meteor and the trajectory solution was run through the StrewnLAB software to predict the search area shown below. Please download and review the Google Earth files below for detailed maps of the search area.

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.

Jim Goodall

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