A fireball on 23rd April is likely to have dropped meteorites near Bury St Edmonds in Suffolk.
The night was cloudy, but the fireball was bright enough to be seen through cloud on several of hte UK Meteor Network’s cameras, and also to be picked up on some security cameras.
Analysis indicates that meteorites may have fallen in the area between Alpheton and the A14 just NE of Denham Castle (see map below).
The potential strewn field is split into two because the fireball broke up at about 40km altitude. The overview map below shows the approximate locations of the calculated zones, and more detailed maps are available from the meteor section director or from UKMON.
If you’re interested in searching, or know an astronomy society, walking group, or even detectorist group who might be interested, please take a look at the infographic below and guidance from UKFall explaining how to organize a good search and how to identify a meteorite.
Note that you must not search private land without permission, and that any finds on private property belong to the land owner who may not be the farmer, as much of the UK’s farmland is managed by tenant farmers. If you’re at all concerned stick to public land like roadsides and verges.
You can read the press release from the UK Fireball Alliance here. Details of the object’s orbit and trajectory are available here.
