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A bright fireball flight from northwest of Mie Prefecture to the east over Aichi prefecture sky at 1, Aug 2022 14h15m52s(UT).
Dr. Y. Fujiwara(Ohsaka pref. & Nara pref.), Mr. K. Yoneguchi(Ishikawa pref.), Mr.C.Shimoda(Nagano pref.), and Mr.Wind(Okayama pref.) photographed this fireball taken by TV individual cameras.
This fireball indicates a spectacular burst companied by the train and few small fragments after half of the trail.
Dr.Fujiwara's specter image indicates ferrite rich with sodium meteoroid.
The fireball geocentric velocity is 16.4 km/s and luminous end heitht is 32.0 km altitude that is estimated a few meteorite fell on the earth.
This fireball was estimated to survive as about 1-2 grams small meteorite.
The predicted falling area is in Ama city, Aichi prefecture where is include the open field living many people, so we hope a lucky.
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Small red circles are some model calculation results for other many initial values, but not indicate many meteorites fell.
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