The UK Fireball Alliance

2022: The South Wales Fireball

Here is the press release from the 2022 South Wales fireball event in English and in Welsh:

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How do we know where it landed?

In this visualisation, the path of the South Wales meteor is shown, as well as the views from several of the UK’s many meteor cameras. We use data from the cameras to calculate the path of the meteor.

Map of the possible meteorite drop zone (denoted by white line) of the 2022 South Wales fireball event. Underlying image is from Google Maps.

Map showing public reports of the South Wales fireball event (top left, credit International Meteor Organisation). The fireball as seen from Knighton (top right, credit UK Fireball Network), Koksijde in Belgium (lower right, with internal reflection. Credit Didier van Hellemont of AllSky7), and Sturminster, Dorset (bottom, credit John Savage of AllSky7).