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A fireball from the north side of the Echizen coast flight to the southeast and reached above the west of Gifu prefecture at 22,Mar. 2023 10h10m05s(UT).
The nine cameras located from Okayama prefecture to the Kanto region caught this fireball automatically.
This characteristic fireball indicated burst at halfway and after some brightening repeated periodically.
No fragmentation is indicated in every image but the burst part is made afterglow.
Initial velocity is 15.3km/s which is ordinal as the meteoric fireballs.
About 60-250 grams of the small meteorite was estimated to fall on folest between Seki city and Gujo city Gifu prefecture.
Predicted impact area
Red ellipse is predicted impact area.
(Added on "Geospatial Information Authority of Japan" map.)
