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COLLECTION
Meteorite Name: Ash Creek
Location: West, Texas
Classification: L6 Ordinary Chondrite
Witnessed Fall: Yes
Date and Time: February 15, 2009 (1058 hrs)
TKW: ~ 10 kilograms
Remarks:
A brilliant fireball and detonations were witnessed by many, and the former was captured on video by a news camera while filming participants running in the Austin marathon that Sunday morning. At first there was speculation by the media that the event was caused by debris entering the atmosphere after the accidental and recent collision of two satellites in orbit around Earth, though most everyone in the meteorite community knew right away this was a meteoric event. As this was a retrograde meteoroid, only very small individuals survived to become meteorites and very little of this material was recovered in the field (specimens below were recovered only days after the fall before they could be touched by rain). Click this link for the video footage of this fall in progress.
   
Collection Photos
 
104.9 gram complete individual (Primary fusion crust across the entire top surface)
104.9 gram complete individual (Primary fusion crust across the entire top surface)
 
104.9 gram complete individual (Air break showing the pristine interior)
104.9 gram complete individual (Air break showing the pristine interior)
 
104.9 gram complete individual (Two different stages of secondary fusion crust)
104.9 gram complete individual (Two different stages of secondary fusion crust)
 
104.9 gram complete individual (Alternate angle)
104.9 gram complete individual (Alternate angle)
 
24.3 gram individual, in situ, found by Robert Ward about one nanosecond before I was the second human being ever to see it ;-)
24.3 gram individual, in situ, found by Robert Ward about one nanosecond before I was the second human being ever to see it ;-)
 

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