Event: 20221025-015312

Nearly one hundred members of the public in the states of Arizona, Nevada, Utah and California filed reports of a bright fireball seen October 24, 2022 at 6:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time (2022 October 25 1:53 UTC). It was also detected by a NASA all sky meteor camera at the MMTO observatory in southern Arizona and several internet-accessible cameras in the region. Analysis of the available data indicates that the meteor was first sighted 48 miles above the White Hills in northwestern Arizona, moving to the northwest at 30,500 miles per hour. The object managed to survive traveling over 42 miles through the upper atmosphere before breaking up 28 miles above Boulder City in southern Nevada. Actually, the meteor had two major fragmentation events, as the videos show two very bright flares near the end of its trajectory. Estimates of the fireball’s brightness vary widely, but it was brighter than the Full Moon, which means it was caused by an asteroidal fragment weighing at least 70 pounds and greater than a foot in diameter.

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