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Apr 19, 2017 · The Park Forest (L5) meteorite fell in a suburb of Chicago, Illinois (USA) on March 26, 2003. It is one of the currently 25 meteorites for which photographic documentation of the fireball enabled the reconstruction of the meteoroid orbit.
- Matthias M. M. Meier, Kees C. Welten, My E. I. Riebe, My E. I. Riebe, Marc W. Caffee, Maria Gritsevi...
- 2017
Park Forest is an L5 chondrite meteorite that fell on 26 March 2003 in Illinois, United States. [1] History. Around midnight on March 26, 2003, a bright orange fireball was spotted in the sky which was visible across Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio.
Some stones, especially those that hit streets and sidewalks, shattered upon impact while those that fell on unpaved grassy areas were partially to completely embedded in the ground. A map of the strewnfield is shown in Fig. 1, with the known meteorite recovery locations indicated.
- Steve B. Simon, Larry Grossman, Robert N. Clayton, T. K. Mayeda, J. R. Schwade, P. P. Sipiera, John ...
- 2004
Weather was in full force, torrential rain, lightning and thunder. After only a half hour we had recovered 25.7 grams in five pieces, enough to almost cover the trip given the outrageous prices this fall come to reach.
The meteorite is a monomict breccia, consisting of light-colored, angular to rounded clasts in a very dark host. The light and dark lithologies have essentially identical mineral and oxygen isotopic compositions.
- Steve B. Simon, Larry Grossman, Robert N. Clayton, T. K. Mayeda, J. R. Schwade, P. P. Sipiera, John ...
- 2004
Jun 26, 2006 · On April 26, 1803, near L’Aigle, in Normandy, France, hundreds witnessed a spectacular fireball streak across the sky. The light show was followed by a shower of nearly 3,000 stony meteorites.
Jun 30, 2016 · The Park Forest meteorite, named for the area at the center of the shower, fell in one of the most heavily populated areas to see meteorites in recent history. Fortunately, an expert was on hand: Dr. Steven Simon, a cosmochemist at the University of Chicago, happened to live right in the middle of the Park Forest meteorite shower.
