Event: 20221013-051730


Many eyewitnesses (nearly 150) in the states of Washington and Oregon reported seeing a fireball last night at 10:18 PM Pacific Daylight Time (2022 October 13 5:18 UTC). An analysis of their accounts indicates that the meteor was first sighted 58 miles above the Pacific Ocean due west of Oil City, moving to the southeast at 76,000 miles per hour. It traveled some 57 miles through the atmosphere before disintegrating at an altitude of 41 miles above Lake Quinault in the state of Washington. This fireball, which is not a member of the currently active Taurid meteor shower, was moving too fast to produce meteorites.


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Event Data

Event ID 20221013-051730
Date (UTC) Oct. 13, 2022
Time (UTC) 05:17:30
AMS Event 6949-2022
Chicken Little Start Lat/Lon +47.789, -124.982
Chicken Little End Lat/Lon +47.478, -123.914
Chicken Little Altitude 93.8 km → 66.1 km ( 58.3 miles→ 41.1 miles)
Chicken Little Speed 33.9 km/s (75,700 mph)