Event: 20201216-125000


Numerous eyewitnesses in the states of Minnesota and Wisconsin reported seeing a bright fireball on the early morning of December 16, at 6:50 AM Central Standard Time (2020 December 16 12:50 UTC). An analysis of these accounts shows that the fireball first became visible 54 miles above Duluth, Minnesota, moving to the southeast at 56,000 miles per hour. It ablated 36 miles above Wisconsin’s Whittlesey Creek Wildlife Refuge, on the southwestern shore of Chequamegon Bay.


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Event Data

Event ID 20201216-125000
Date (UTC) Dec. 16, 2020
Time (UTC) 12:50:00
AMS Event 7723-2020
Chicken Little Start Lat/Lon +46.828, -92.040
Chicken Little End Lat/Lon +46.585, -90.963
Chicken Little Altitude 87.1 km → 57.5 km ( 54.1 miles→ 35.7 miles)
Chicken Little Speed 25.1 km/s (56,100 mph)