Fragment of Impacting Asteroid Recovered in Botswana
On Saturday, June 23, 2018, a team of experts from Botswana, South Africa, Finland and the United States of America recovered a fresh meteorite in Botswana´s Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR).
The meteorite is one of the fragments of asteroid 2018 LA which collided with Earth on June 2, 2018 and turned into a meteor fireball that detonated over Botswana a few seconds after entering the atmosphere. The incident was witnessed by a number of spectators in Botswana and neighbouring countries and was captured on numerous security cameras.Botswana meteorite.
Credit: Peter Jenniskens
Credit: Peter Jenniskens
Jenniskens, who traveled to Botswana to assist in the search, teamed up with Oliver Moses (from ORI), to gather security surveillance videos in Rakops and Maun, to get better constraints on the position and altitude of the fireball´s explosion. Professor Alexander Proyer, from BIUST, led the joint expedition while Mohutsiwa Gabadirwe, BGI senior curator, coordinated access to the protected fall area in the game reserve. Professor Roger Gibson, Head of School at the School of Geosciences at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, also assisted in locating the fall area. The meteorite was eventually spotted by BIUST geologist Lesedi Seitshiro. The search for more fragments of the meteorite continues. Dr Fulvio Franchi of BIUST, is leading the follow-up search team joined by Tomas Kohout of the FFN and the University of Helsinki.
Meteorites are protected under Botswana law and samples will be curated by the Botswana National Museum and investigated further by a research consortium of scientists coordinated by Botswana Geoscience Institute (BGI).
Contacts and sources:
Professor Alexander Proyer, Botswana International University of Science and Technology
Mohutsiwa Gabadirwe, Botswana Geoscience Institute
Oliver Moses, Okavango Research Institute (University of Botswana)
Peter Jenniskens , SETI Institute
Lindley Johnson (Planetary Defense Officer), NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office
Tomas Kohout, Finnish Fireball Network and University of Helsinki
Professor Roger Gibson , Wits University
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