23 March 1998

Monahans (1998)

Monahans, Texas, USA

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  • Human-verified · Marc Fries
  • Meteorites recovered
Fireball (UTC)
not established no instrumental or published time yet
Radar searched
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Meteorites
Monahans (1998) (H5) Meteoritical Bulletin entry
MetDetect
not run yet

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).

Meteorites

Publications

Zolensky M. E., Bodnar R. J., Gibson E. K., et al. (1999) Asteroidal Water Within Fluid Inclusion-Bearing Halite in an H5 Chondrite, Monahans (1998). Science 285, 1377–1379

Rubin A. E., Zolensky M. E., Bodnar R. J. (2002) The halite‐bearing Zag and Monahans (1998) meteorite breccias: Shock metamorphism, thermal metamorphism and aqueous alteration on the H‐chondrite parent body. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 37, 125–141

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