Roberto Gorelli points our attention at a recently published meteor related paper:

Localizing The First Interstellar Meteor With Seismometer Data

This article has been submitted for publication by Amir Siraj and Abraham Loeb.

Abstract: The first meter-scale interstellar meteor (IM1) was detected by US government sensors in 2014, identified as an interstellar object candidate in 2019, and confirmed by the Department of Defense (DoD) in 2022. We use data from a nearby seismometer to localize the fireball to a 1 km^2 region within the 102 km^2 zone allowed by the precision of the DoD-provided coordinates. The improved localization is of great importance for a forthcoming expedition to retrieve the meteor fragments.

You can download this paper for free: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.07357.pdf (4 pages).

 

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