24 October 2015

Creston

Creston, California, USA

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  • Human-verified · Marc Fries
  • Meteorites recovered
Fireball (UTC)
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Meteorites
Creston (L6) Meteoritical Bulletin entry
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Dark flight

No dark-flight estimate yet for this fall.

Human identification

The radar signatures of this fall were identified by hand by Marc Fries (NASA ARES, Johnson Space Center). Read the original report (archived copy).

Meteorites

Publications

Jenniskens P., Utas J., Yin Q., et al. (2019) The Creston, California, meteorite fall and the origin of L chondrites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 54, 699–720

Fries M., Fries J., Hankey M. & Matson R. (2016) Meteorite falls observed in U.S. weather radar data in 2015 and 2016 (to date). 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, abstract 6536

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