18 October 2012

Novato

Novato, California, USA

  • MetDetect not run yet
  • Human-verified · Marc Fries
  • Meteorites recovered
Fireball (UTC)
not established no instrumental or published time yet
Radar searched
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Meteorites
Novato (L6) 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

Jenniskens P., Rubin A. E., Yin Q., et al. (2014) Fall, recovery, and characterization of the Novato L6 chondrite breccia. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 49, 1388–1425

Fries M., Matson R., Schaefer J., Fries J. & Hankey M. (2013) Faster recovery, better science: meteorite fall events detected with weather radars and seismometers in 2012. 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, abstract 2935

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