(meteorobs) Geminid meteor shower peaks: Yes, some falling stars could reach earth

[Chris Peterson]

No certain recoveries, but Pavel Spurny and Jiri Borovicka reported last 
year at the Meteoroids 2013 conference on a meteorite dropping Geminid. 
That conclusion was arrived at by a multistation camera analysis (Czech 
camera stations). The meteoroid orbit was determined, establishing it as 
a Geminid. The 1.2 kg parent penetrated to 32.6 km and a low velocity. 
It probably dropped a small amount of material in Germany.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

On 12/13/2014 9:30 PM, Kevin Conod wrote:
> I dunno with all due respect to Dr. Cooke, this seems quite unlikely, no?
> http://tinyurl.com/pkgcchx
>
> We've been observing the Geminids regularly for more than 150 years and I
> don't think there has ever been a recorded instance of a meteorite
> recovered from the Geminids.