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22 April 2012

Sutter's Mill

Coloma, California, USA

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  • Human-verified · Marc Fries
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Sutter's Mill (C) Meteoritical Bulletin entry
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Dark flight

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Human identification

The radar signatures of this fall were identified by hand by Marc Fries (NASA ARES, Johnson Space Center).

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Publications

Jenniskens P., Fries M. D., Yin Q. Z., et al. (2012) Radar-Enabled Recovery of the Sutter’s Mill Meteorite, a Carbonaceous Chondrite Regolith Breccia. Science 338, 1583–1587

Fries M., Le Corre L., Hankey M., et al. (2014) Detection and rapid recovery of the Sutter's Mill meteorite fall as a model for future recoveries worldwide. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 49, 1989–1996

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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