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A couple of interesting stories in the past few days. First, a 500-lb meteor believed to be from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter entered the Earth’s atmosphere over western Pennsylvania. The fireball could be seen in Ohio, West Virginia, and New York as well. Meteorite fragments might be found around Kittanning, PA.

Second, Manuel Moreno-Ibàñez of the Institute of Space Studies (CSIC-IEEC) in Barcelona, Spain has a new model that predicts when meteors become fireballs and where meteorites may land.

Last but not least, Craig alerted me to the Spaceweather report of “the re-entry and breakup of a Chinese rocket body, specifically stage 3 of the CZ-4B rocket that launched the Yaogan Weixing 26 satellite in Dec. 2014.”

Looks like anything that survived re-entry landed in Canada.