Event: 20201101-235311
On November 1, 2020 there were many accounts of a bright fireball from eyewitnesses in the southeastern United States, who report seeing it at 6:53 PM Eastern Standard Time (2020 November 1 23:53 UTC). The event was also recorded by three NASA all sky meteor cameras in the region, and an analysis of their video data shows that the meteor first became visible at an altitude of 51 miles above Jacksonville, Alabama. Moving to the southwest at 44,800 miles per hour, the fireball - which was caused by a fragment of an asteroid about 4 inches in diameter with a weight of 5 pounds - travelled 37 miles through the atmosphere before fragmenting 20 miles above the town of Eastaboga, between Pell City and Anniston.
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Event Data
| Event ID | 20201101-235311 |
| Date (UTC) | Nov. 1, 2020 |
| Time (UTC) | 23:53:11 |
| AMS Event | 6197-2020 |
| Size | 5 lbs |
| Origin | asteroidal |
| NASA Camera Start Lat/Lon | +33.861, -85.807 |
| NASA Camera End Lat/Lon | +33.633, -86.053 |
| NASA Camera Altitude | 81.5 km → 32.2 km ( 50.6 miles→ 20.0 miles) |
| NASA Camera Speed | 20.2 km/s (45,200 mph) |
| Chicken Little Start Lat/Lon | +33.841, -85.775 |
| Chicken Little End Lat/Lon | +33.617, -86.080 |
| Chicken Little Altitude | 78.8 km → 46.6 km ( 48.9 miles→ 28.9 miles) |
| Chicken Little Speed | 15.5 km/s (34,600 mph) |