Radar-enabled recovery of the Sutter's Mill meteorite, a carbonaceous chondrite regolith breccia.

P, Jenniskens; MD, Fries; QZ, Yin; M, Zolensky; AN, Krot; SA, Sandford; D, Sears; R, Beauford; DS, Ebel; JM, Friedrich; K, Nagashima; J, Wimpenny; A, Yamakawa; K, Nishiizumi; Y, Hamajima; MW, Caffee; KC, Welten; M, Laubenstein; AM, Davis; SB, Simon; PR, Heck; ED, Young; IE, Kohl; MH, Thiemens; MH, Nunn; T, Mikouchi; K, Hagiya; K, Ohsumi; TA, Cahill; JA, Lawton; D, Barnes; A, Steele; P, Rochette; KL, Verosub; J, Gattacceca; G, Cooper; DP, Glavin; AS, Burton; AS, Burton; JP, Dworkin; JE, Elsila; S, Pizzarello; R, Ogliore; P, Schmitt-Kopplin; M, Harir; N, Hertkorn; A, Verchovsky; M, Grady; K, Nagao; R, Okazaki; H, Takechi; T, Hiroi; K, Smith; EA, Silber; PG, Brown; J, Albers; D, Klotz; M, Hankey; R, Matson; JA, Fries; RJ, Walker; I, Puchtel; CT, Lee; ME, Erdman; GR, Eppich; S, Roeske; Z, Gabelica; M, Lerche; M, Nuevo; B, Girten; SP, Worden

doi:10.1126/science.1227163

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Radar-enabled recovery of the Sutter's Mill meteorite, a carbonaceous chondrite regolith breccia.

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Jenniskens P

Fries MD

Yin QZ

Abstract

Doppler weather radar imaging enabled the rapid recovery of the Sutter's Mill meteorite after a rare 4-kiloton of TNT-equivalent asteroid impact over the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in northern California. The recovered meteorites survived a record high-speed entry of 28.6 kilometers per second f...

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