File:Sutter's Mill Meteorite.jpg

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English: Fragments of of a crushed 4 gram meteorite (SM2) belonging to the Sutter's Mill meteorite, which is thought to be a rare CM type carbonaceous chondrite. The fragments were obtained from the parking lot of Henningsen Lotus Park in Lotus, California, near Sutter's Mill, by astronomer Peter Jenniskens. The white specks are calcium aluminium inclusions.

Date

April 2012

Source

Author

Peter Jenniskens (SETI Institute) and Eric James (NASA Ames)

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Object location	38° 48′ 13.73″ N, 120° 54′ 25.94″ W	View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap	38.803815; -120.907205

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current	09:03, 28 April 2012		2,208 × 1,624 (2.72 MB)	Bulwersator	{{Information \|Description ={{en\|1="Explanation: Last Sunday's bright fireball meteor falling through skies over California and Nevada produced sonic booms over a broad area around 7:21 am. Estimates indicate the meteor was about the size of a miniv...

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