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    The Bunburra Rockhole meteorite fall in SW Australia: fireball trajectory, luminosity, dynamics, orbit, and impact position from photographic and photoelectric records

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    Authors
    Spurný, P.
    Bland, Philip
    Shrbený, L.
    Borovicka, J.
    Ceplecha, Z.
    Singelton, A.
    Bevan, A.
    Vaughan, D.
    Towner, M.
    McClafferty, Terence
    Toumi, R.
    Deacon, G.
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Spurný, Pavel and Bland, Philip and Shrbený, Lukas and Borovicka, Jiri and Ceplecha, Zdenek and Singelton, Andrew and Bevan, Alex and Vaughan, David and Towner, Martin and McClafferty, Terence and Toumi, Ralf and Deacon, Geoff. 2012. The Bunburra Rockhole meteorite fall in SW Australia: fireball trajectory, luminosity, dynamics, orbit, and impact position from photographic and photoelectric records. Meteoritics & Planetary Science. 47 (2): pp. 163-185.
    Source Title
    Meteoritics and Planetary Science
    DOI
    10.1111/j.1945-5100.2011.01321.x
    ISSN
    1086-9379
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25279
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    Abstract

    We report an analysis of the first instrumentally observed meteorite fall in Australia, which was recorded photographically and photoelectrically by two eastern stations of the Desert Fireball Network (DFN) on July 20, 2007. The meteoroid with an initial mass of 22 kg entered the atmosphere with a low speed of 13.36 km s−1 and began a luminous trajectory at an altitude of 62.83 km. In maximum, it reached −9.6 absolute magnitude and terminated after a 5.7 s and 64.7 km long flight at an altitude of 29.59 km with a speed of 5.8 km s−1. The angle of the atmospheric trajectory to the Earth’s surface was 30.9°. The first organized search took place in October 2008 and the first meteorite (150 g) was found 97 m southward from the predicted central line at the end of the first day of searching (October 3, 2008). The second stone (174 g) was recovered 39 m northward from the central line, both exactly in the predicted mass limits. During the second expedition in February 2009, a third fragment of 14.9 g was found again very close (~100 m) from the predicted position. Total recovered mass is 339 g. The meteorite was designated Bunburra Rockhole (BR) after a nearby landscape structure. This first DFN sample is an igneous achondrite. Initial petrography indicated that BR was a brecciated eucrite but detailed analyses proved that BR is not a typical eucrite, but an anomalous basaltic meteorite (Bland et al. 2009). BR was delivered from an unusual, Aten type orbit (a < 1 AU) where virtually the entire orbit was contained within Earth’s orbit. BR is the first achondrite fall with a known orbit and it is one of the most precise orbits ever calculated for a meteorite dropping fireball.

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