Mysterious unidentified fireball lights up sky from California to Texas - September 24, 2024 31OCT2024

 Mysterious unidentified fireball lights up sky from California to Texas - September 24, 2024

Very bright fireball seen from Oregon, Washington,

Nevada, and California, over 200 reports filed

Rishav Kothari, The Watchers, September 25, 2024

https://watchers.news/2024/09/25/very-bright-fireball-seen-from-oregon-washington-nevada-and-california-over-200-reports-filed/

Mysterious unidentified fireball lights up sky from California to Texas

Patrick Reilly, MSN, September 25, 2024

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mysterious-unidentified-fireball-lights-up-sky-from-california-to-texas/ar-BB1qVfuf

Asteroid Enters As Fireball Over California Skies Right After Its Discovery; Video Surfaces

It's the third asteroid this year whose impact was predicted.

By Harsh Vardhan, Mashable, October 25, 2024

https://in.mashable.com/science/84341/asteroid-enters-as-fireball-over-california-skies-right-after-its-discovery-video-surfaces

Yours,

Paul H.

What happened when a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests hit Earth? 22OCT2024

What happened when a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests hit Earth?

What happened when a meteorite the size of four Mount Everests hit Earth?

Anne J, Manning, The Haravrd Gazette, October 21, 2024

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/10/what-happened-when-a-meteorite-the-size-of-four-mount-everests-hit-earth/

The open access paper is:

Drabon, N., Knoll, A.H., Lowe, D.R., and Mucciarone, D.A.

2024, Effect of a giant meteorite impact on Paleoarchean surface environments and life. Proceedings of the National

Academy of Sciences. 121 (44) e2408721121 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2408721121

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2408721121

Yours,

Paul H.

The cataclysmic origins of most of Earth’s meteorites 16OCT2024

 The cataclysmic origins of most of Earth’s meteorites

The cataclysmic origins of most of Earth’s meteorites have been found

Seventy percent of meteorites can be linked to a just a handful of asteroid

belt collisions, By Robin George Andrews, ScienceNews, October 16, 2024

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/origins-earths-meteorites-found

New research shows most space rocks crashing into Earth come from

a single source, Trevor Ireland, The Conversation, October 16, 2024

https://theconversation.com/new-research-shows-most-space-rocks-crashing-into-earth-come-from-a-single-source-241455

The open access preprints are:

Brož, M., Vernazza, P., Marsset, M., DeMeo, F.E., Binzel, R.P., Vokrouhlický,

D. and Nesvorný, D., 2024. Young asteroid families as the primary source

of meteorites. arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.08552.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.08552

Marsset, M., Vernazza, P., Brož, M., Thomas, C.A., DeMeo, F.E., Burt, B.,

Binzel, R.P., Reddy, V., McGraw, A., Avdellidou, C. and Carry, B., 2024.

The Massalia asteroid family as the origin of ordinary L chondrites. arXiv

preprint arXiv:2403.08548.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.08548

Yours,

Paul H.

Kamil Crater, Egypt, "Strip-mined" and Destroyed by Meteorite Criminals 13OCT2024

Kamil Crater, Egypt, "Strip-mined" and Destroyed by Meteorite Criminals 13OCT2024

by Paul V. Heinrich

Kamil Impact Crater 2023 showing destruction and in 2020.
Imagery © 2024 Google Earth / CNES/ Airbus
Click on image to enlarge.

I was looking at Wikipedia at the write up about the Kamil Crater at 22° 1'5.89"N latitude and 26° 5'15.69"E longitude. A recent addition to the Wikipedia article by Enrique Díaz-Martínez, Spain at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamil_Crater
states:
"According to evidence provided by Google Earth images, Kamil crater morphology and its prototypical rayed structure (well-preserved radiating features) have been destroyed between 2020 and 2023, most probably due to exhaustive plundering of meteorite fragments. The last image of the well preserved crater is of February 2020, whereas it is fully destroyed in the next image dated May 2023, so it was destroyed between those two dates. The size of the wheel tracks visible on trails to/from the former crater indicate that heavy machinery was used for the collection of meteoritic material.”

The Wikipedia update note was added on October 10, 2024 by Enrique Díaz-Martínez, Spain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kamil_Crater&diff=prev&oldid=1250464561

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ediazmartinez

I looked at the Google Earth images and essentially agree with what is written. Although the exact timeline is open to interpretation, the aerial images do show that this crater, which is a protected site, has been destroyed by people illegally mining it presumably for iron meteorite fragments and spherules. Heavy machinery, presumably electromagnets, and other methods were used to vandalize, desecrate, and otherwise destroy this irreplaceable part of the Egypt's geological heritage for personal gain.

Undoubtedly, these stolen Egyptian meteorites are already in the marketplace for sale somewhere.

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Fireball Movie Question- Korea Expedition for Antarctic Meteorites, KOREAMET 08OCT2024

Fireball Movie Question- Korea Expedition for Antarctic Meteorites, KOREAMET  08OCT2024

In [meteorite-list] Fireball Movie Question on Tue, 01 Oct. 2024, Rhett Bourland asked:

>My question is, does anyone know what meteorite they found?

I was not able to determine an answer to this question. A more detailed examination of the below papers might help.

>If you don't know, can someone point me towards some information about the material found by the South Korean team over the years?


I found a few publications using Google Scholar searching for-
"Korea Expedition for Antarctic Meteorites" / "KOREAMET”.

Some of these reports are archived at the "KOPRI depository" at
https://repository.kopri.re.kr/simple-search?query=KOREAMET

KOPRI stands for "Korea Polar Research Institute of Marine Research”.

They include:

이종익, 2009. 2006-2008 Korea Expedition for Antarctic Meteorites (KOREAMET). 

지질학회지, 45(6), pp.621-637.
https://repository.kopri.re.kr/bitstream/201206/6643/1/2010_5_3_2010-003.pdf

최변각, 박창근, 안인수 and 이종익, 2009. Classification and petrological and geochemical characteristics of Antarctic meteorites found by 1st, 2nd and 3rd KOREAMET. 지질학회지,
45(6), pp.593-605.

Park, C., Baek, J., Ha, S., Nagao, K., Park, S., Ahn, I., Moon, J.J., Yoo, I.S. and Lee, J.I., 2015. 

Report on classification of Antarctic meteorites from the 2014/15 KOREAMET season.
https://repository.kopri.re.kr/bitstream/201206/7137/1/221507.pdf

Yours.

Paul H.