Meteorite**Utah Salt Flats, Unclassified**10.527 gram slice; NEW FALL 08/13/2022

Description

Hello up for sale is the newest meteorite to fall to earth, Utah Salt Flats!!! This gorgeous full slice weighs 10.527 grams, has a perfect polish to one side, fusion crust on the edge of the slice, this meteorite has rust, it was found on the Salt Flats and it has altered the chondrite. This meteorite is unclassified and in my opinion a possible H4/H5. There is very little amount of this material found and even less of this meteorite available to the public! This lot comes with a COA card and display case, an updated COA card can be sent to you once it is officially classified and updated in the bulletin, I only have 10 grams available. Thanks for your interest and take care.
Side note: I think there was about 15 stones found in total with a mass of about 3 kilos or less.. this is all estimated from what I have observed and might not be the exact amount. The majority of the stones have been sold or kept by the hunters and are not available to the public.
HISTORY
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Residents of the Salt Lake City area were startled by loud booms at 8:30 AM Mountain Daylight Time last Saturday (August 13). There were some eyewitness reports of a bright fireball around the same time, confirmed by videos from a few cameras in the area and detections by the Geostationary Lightning Mappers on the GOES 17 and 18 satellites. An analysis of the currently available data indicates that the meteor was first seen at an altitude of 50 miles over West Valley City, moving to the northwest at 39,000 miles per hour. The object began to fragment at an altitude of 30 miles above the eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake and Doppler weather radar shows the signatures characteristic of falling meteorites over the lake. Data from infrasound detectors in the vicinity place the energy of the fragmentation at 15 tons of TNT, indicating that the object was just over 2 feet across, with a weight around 800 pounds. At its brightest, the fireball was 16 times brighter than the Full Moon.
The orbit derived from the trajectory suggests that the fireball may have been caused by a fragment from the Aten class of asteroids. There are reports of at least one found meteorite from this event.
We thank the American Meteor Society for providing the eyewitness accounts.