Event: 20221202-003350

Hundreds of eyewitnesses across a wide region (Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the Canadian province of Ontario) have filed reports of a bright, relatively long duration (10 second) fireball seen on December 1, 2022 at 7:34 PM Eastern Standard Time (2022 December 2 00:34 UTC). The event was also captured by all 3 NASA meteor cameras in the area, and an analysis of this data has enabled the determination of the fireball’s trajectory and orbit. The meteor – produced by an asteroidal fragment approximately 5 inches in diameter with a weight around 3 pounds – was first seen at an altitude of 52 miles above the Ohio town of Morganville. Moving downward at a shallow angle and almost due east at 34,500 miles per hour, the fireball travelled 113 miles through the atmosphere before disintegrating 19 miles above the town of Ringgold in West Virginia, just south of Morgantown.

It is doubtful that this fireball produced meteorites on the ground - the shallow entry angle, relatively high speed at last sighting and lack of doppler radar signatures showing falling meteoritic particles indicate that the fragment’s disintegration produced no substantial pieces.

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