Event: 20220620-034111
Nearly two hundred eyewitnesses in the states of Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin reported seeing a bright fireball around 10:41 PM Central Daylight Time on June 19 (2022 June 20 at 3:41 UTC). The event was also captured by several cameras in the region, including a NASA camera located at Oberlin College in Ohio. Due to clouds, the video data did not cover the entire meteor trajectory but analysis indicates that it was detected 53 miles above the town of Niles in southwestern Michigan, moving north north west (NNW) at 55,000 miles per hour. The fireball, caused by a piece of an asteroid approximately 4 inches in diameter and weighing around 2 pounds, traveled over 45 miles through the upper atmosphere before disintegrating 26 miles above Lake Michigan. The pre-impact orbit of this object has a low inclination (5 degrees), with closest approach to the Sun midway between the orbits of Venus and Mercury.
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Event Data
| Event ID | 20220620-034111 |
| Date (UTC) | June 20, 2022 |
| Time (UTC) | 03:41:11 |
| AMS Event | 3513-2022 |
| Size | 4 inches or 2 pounds |
| Origin | asteroidal |
| NASA Camera Start Lat/Lon | +41.923, -86.246 |
| NASA Camera End Lat/Lon | +43.183, -87.317 |
| NASA Camera Altitude | 85.3 km → 42.4 km ( 53.0 miles→ 26.3 miles) |
| NASA Camera Speed | 24.7 km/s (55,300 mph) |