Ye, Quan-Zhi (2018) A preliminary analysis of the Shangri-La Bolide on 2017 Oct 4. Earth and Planetary Physics, 2 (2). pp. 170-172. ISSN 2096-3955. doi:10.26464/epp2018017. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180502-132850998
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Abstract
At 12:07 UT (8:07 pm China Standard Time) on 2017 Oct 4, a bright bolide was widely observed in the Shangri-La region of the Province of Yunnan, China (Figure 1). The event was well observed by the general public as it took place on the night of the Mid Autumn Festival, which is associated with moon gazing. Sonic booms and ground shaking were reported in an area of about a thousand square kilometers northwest of Shangri-La City. Data from U.S. government sensors suggests that the impact energy of the event was approximately 0.54 kt TNT equivalent, with the terminus of the bolide positioned at 28.1°N, 99.4°E. This is the largest observed bolide event over land since the bolide event that took place in Mauritania on 2016 Jun 27 (1.2 kt).
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| Additional Information: | © 2018 by Earth and Planetary Physics. Issue Online 02 May 2018; Version of Record online: 02 May 2018; Manuscript accepted: 01 March 2018; Manuscript received: 27 January 2018. I thank Peter Brown and Rob Matson for helpful discussions, as well as all the witnesses for sharing their videos and accounts on the internet. The author is supported by the GROWTH project (National Science Foundation Grant No. 1545949). | ||||||
| Group: | Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC) | ||||||
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| Subject Keywords: | meteorites; meteors; meteoroids | ||||||
| Issue or Number: | 2 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.26464/epp2018017 | ||||||
| Record Number: | CaltechAUTHORS:20180502-132850998 | ||||||
| Persistent URL: | https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180502-132850998 | ||||||
| Official Citation: | Ye, Q. (2018), A preliminary analysis of the Shangri‐La Bolide on 2017 Oct 4. Earth and Planetary Physics, 2: 170-172. doi:10.26464/epp2018017 | ||||||
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| ID Code: | 86197 | ||||||
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| Deposited By: | Tony Diaz | ||||||
| Deposited On: | 03 May 2018 21:10 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 15 Nov 2021 20:36 |
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