The Peekskill Meteorite October 9

The Peekskill Meteorite
October 9, 1992

 

Videos

• Anne Arundel County, Maryland
  Taken at a football game in Anne Arundel County

• Olmsted Falls, Ohio
  Taken at a football game in Olmsted Falls

• Fairfax, Virginia
  Taken from parking lot of a Burger King in Fairfax

• Falconer, New York
  Taken by R. Gabalsky, from WICB TV at high school football game in Falconer

• Fayetteville, North Carolina
  From WTVD 

• Johnstown, Pennsylvania
  Taken by sportscaster J. Derr from WWCP

• Newbury, Ohio
  Taken by D. Lair

• Parkersberg, West Virginia
  Taken by J. Fortney 

• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  Taken by T. Reinheimer while overlooking Three Rivers Stadium

• Raleigh, North Carolina
  Taken by T. Crighton at Westover Senior High School football game

• Richmond, Virginia
  Shot by camera man for WWBT/WXEX

• Saltsburg, Pennsylvania
  Taken by M. Krzanowsky 60km west of Johnstown, PA

• Halifax, Virginia
  Taken by O. Shinfineld

• State College, Pennsylvania

• Willoughby, Ohio

 

Still Photos

• Altoona, Pennsylvania 
  Taken by S. Eichmiller of the Altoona Mirror from Mansion Park football stadium, using a 300mm f/2.8 lens with 1/500s exposure on 3200 TMAX black and white film 

• Enlarged Altoona photo

 

Information

• The Fall of the Peekskill Meteorite: Video Observations, Atmospheric Path, Fragmentation Record and Orbit. M. Beech, P. Brown, R. L. Hawkes, Z. Ceplecha, K. Mossman, G. Wetherill. From Earth, Moon, and Planets, 1995

• The orbit and atmospheric trajectory of the Peekskill meteorite from video records. P. Brown, Z. Ceplecha, R. L. Hawkes, G. Wetherill, M. Beech, K. Mossman. From Nature vol. 367, February 17, 1994.

• Exposure history of the Peekskill (H6) meteorite.  Th. Graf, K. Marti, S. Xue, G.G. Herzog, J. Klein, R. Middleton, K. Metzler, R. Herd, P. Brown, J.F. Wacker, A. J. T. Jull, J. Masarik, V. T. Koslowsky, H. R. Andrews, R. J. J. Cornett, W. G. Davies, B. F. Greiner, Y. Imahori, J. W. McKay, G. M. Milton, and J. C. D. Milton. From Meteorites and Planetary Science 32, 25-30, 1997.

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