Event: 20200312-001407

Residents of the state of Florida reported seeing a bright fireball at 8:14 PM Eastern Daylight Time (2020 March 12 00:14 UTC). The event was also captured by 3 NASA all sky meteor cameras in the region (located at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the University of Central Florida, and KSC). An analysis of the video data provided by these systems indicates that the meteoroid - which was an asteroid fragment about 4 inches in diameter with a weight of 5 pounds - began to ablate 57 miles above the swampy land to the southwest of the Florida town of Avon Park, moving at a speed of 35,000 miles per hour to the southeast. It disintegrated above Lake June in Winter, at an altitude of 38 miles. At its brightest, the fireball was about 3 times more intense than the quarter Moon. The computed orbit puts the fragment's farthest distance from the Sun in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, and a perihelion just inside Earth's orbit.

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