Orbit, meteoroid size, and cosmic ray exposure history of the Aguas Zarcas CM2 breccia
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| author | Jenniskens, Peter Soto, Gerardo J. Silva, Gabriel Goncalves Lücke, Oscar Madrigal, Pilar Ballestero, Tatiana Matamoros, Carolina Salas Cubillo, Paulo Ruiz Mourao, Daniela Cardozo Winter, Othon Cabo Sfair, Rafael Tillier, Clemens E. Albers, Jim Garvie, Laurence A. J. Ziegler, Karen Yin, Qing-zhu Sanborn, Matthew E. Busemann, Henner Riebe, My E. I. Welten, Kees C. Caffee, Marc W. Laubenstein, Matthias Robertson, Darrel K. Nesvorny, And David |
| author_facet | Jenniskens, Peter Soto, Gerardo J. Silva, Gabriel Goncalves Lücke, Oscar Madrigal, Pilar Ballestero, Tatiana Matamoros, Carolina Salas Cubillo, Paulo Ruiz Mourao, Daniela Cardozo Winter, Othon Cabo Sfair, Rafael Tillier, Clemens E. Albers, Jim Garvie, Laurence A. J. Ziegler, Karen Yin, Qing-zhu Sanborn, Matthew E. Busemann, Henner Riebe, My E. I. Welten, Kees C. Caffee, Marc W. Laubenstein, Matthias Robertson, Darrel K. Nesvorny, And David |
| contents | The Aguas Zarcas (Costa Rica) CM2 carbonaceous chondrite fell during night time in April 2019. Security and dashboard camera video of the meteor were analyzed to provide a trajectory, lightcurve, and orbit of the meteoroid. The trajectory was near vertical, 81° steep, arriving from an ~109° (WNW) direction with apparent entry speed of 14.6 +/- 0.6 km/s. The meteoroid penetrated to ~25 km altitude (5 MPa dynamic pressure), where the surviving mass shattered, producing a flare that was detected by the Geostationary Lightning Mappers on GOES-16 and GOES-17. The cosmogenic radionuclides were analyzed in three recovered meteorites by either gamma-ray spectroscopy or accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS), while noble gas concentrations and isotopic compositions were measured in the same fragment that was analyzed by AMS. From this, the pre-atmospheric size of the meteoroid and its cosmic-ray exposure age were determined. The studied samples came from a few cm up to 30 cm deep in an object with an original diameter of ~60 cm, that was ejected from its parent body 2.0 +/- 0.2 Ma ago. The ejected material had an argon retention age of 2.9 Ga. The object was delivered most likely by the 3:1 or 5:2 mean motion resonances and, without subsequent fragmentation, approached Earth from a low i < 2.8° inclined orbit with perihelion distance q = 0.98 AU close to Earth orbit. The steep entry trajectory and high strength resulted in deep penetration in the atmosphere and a relatively large fraction of surviving mass. |
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| spellingShingle | Orbit, meteoroid size, and cosmic ray exposure history of the Aguas Zarcas CM2 breccia Jenniskens, Peter Soto, Gerardo J. Silva, Gabriel Goncalves Lücke, Oscar Madrigal, Pilar Ballestero, Tatiana Matamoros, Carolina Salas Cubillo, Paulo Ruiz Mourao, Daniela Cardozo Winter, Othon Cabo Sfair, Rafael Tillier, Clemens E. Albers, Jim Garvie, Laurence A. J. Ziegler, Karen Yin, Qing-zhu Sanborn, Matthew E. Busemann, Henner Riebe, My E. I. Welten, Kees C. Caffee, Marc W. Laubenstein, Matthias Robertson, Darrel K. Nesvorny, And David Earth and Planetary Astrophysics The Aguas Zarcas (Costa Rica) CM2 carbonaceous chondrite fell during night time in April 2019. Security and dashboard camera video of the meteor were analyzed to provide a trajectory, lightcurve, and orbit of the meteoroid. The trajectory was near vertical, 81° steep, arriving from an ~109° (WNW) direction with apparent entry speed of 14.6 +/- 0.6 km/s. The meteoroid penetrated to ~25 km altitude (5 MPa dynamic pressure), where the surviving mass shattered, producing a flare that was detected by the Geostationary Lightning Mappers on GOES-16 and GOES-17. The cosmogenic radionuclides were analyzed in three recovered meteorites by either gamma-ray spectroscopy or accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS), while noble gas concentrations and isotopic compositions were measured in the same fragment that was analyzed by AMS. From this, the pre-atmospheric size of the meteoroid and its cosmic-ray exposure age were determined. The studied samples came from a few cm up to 30 cm deep in an object with an original diameter of ~60 cm, that was ejected from its parent body 2.0 +/- 0.2 Ma ago. The ejected material had an argon retention age of 2.9 Ga. The object was delivered most likely by the 3:1 or 5:2 mean motion resonances and, without subsequent fragmentation, approached Earth from a low i < 2.8° inclined orbit with perihelion distance q = 0.98 AU close to Earth orbit. The steep entry trajectory and high strength resulted in deep penetration in the atmosphere and a relatively large fraction of surviving mass. |
| title | Orbit, meteoroid size, and cosmic ray exposure history of the Aguas Zarcas CM2 breccia |
| topic | Earth and Planetary Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00183 |