#aubrite — Public Fediverse posts

Cosmic pears from the Havelland (Germany): #Ribbeck, the twelfth recorded #aubrite fall in history: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/maps.14245 -> Ribbeck #meteorite from the Havelland is 4.5 billion years old: https://www.uni-muenster.de/news/view.php?cmdid=14207&lang=en

An updated map of the #StrewnField of the #aubrite #meteorites from the #2024BX1 #fireball has just been published in https://www.strewnify.com/y20240121_00z_33u/ - this version 8 includes information on 30+ actual coordinates where cosmic material was found ... and indicates that all meteories with more than 80 grams have by now been collected while tiny ones in the southeast of the field should still abound.

Two brand-new videos telling (the essence of) the story of asteroid #2024BX1, its #fireball and the #aubrite meteorites it dropped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh3wr7UnwFg (8 minutes, English) is about the fireball video camera network and strewn field determination and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJgZ2lxj2_w (6 minutes, German) covers the meteorite search and early scientific analysis.

As already suspected by many finders the Germany #meteorites from asteroid #2024BX1 belong to the very rare #aubrite class, as lab analysis has now confirned: https://www.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/en/press/press-releases/meteor-near-berlin-classified-extremely-rare-aubrite-type-meteorite and https://www.seti.org/press-release/asteroid-impacted-near-berlin-identified-rare-aubrite and https://www.dlr.de/de/aktuelles/nachrichten/2024/havelland-meteorite-gehoeren-einer-seltenen-klasse-an (in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/02/02/schon-etliche-dutzend-meteoriten-von-2024-bx1/ lots more links to individual discovery reports, news coverage and even legal aspects).

And here is a better photo taken by Julia Maia (#DLR). Rumors are that it is an #aubrite.