Event: 20230828-042717

There are numerous reports on the American Meteor Society’s web server of a fairly bright fireball seen by people in California, Nevada and Arizona at 9:27 PM Pacific Daylight Time Sunday night (August 28). The information in these accounts has been combined with data from 2 NASA meteor cameras located in southern Arizona and 3 EarthCams in the region to calculate the meteor's trajectory. The fireball was first detected at an altitude of 55 miles above the northern part of the Las Tinajas mountains in northwest Mexico, moving almost due west at 60,000 miles per hour. It disintegrated 37 miles above the Parque Nacional Constitucion de 1857, after traveling 41 miles through the upper atmosphere.

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