Meteorites with photographic orbits

As of August 12^th, 2024 (last time the list below was updated), there are 55 meteorites with photographic orbits, for which the orbital parameters have either been published in a peer-reviewed journal, in the Meteoritical Bulletin database, in a conference abstract, preprint, or in a PhD thesis. The newest addition to the list is Taghzout, and the most recently fallen meteorite on the list is Ribbeck. The list below is pre-sorted by date of fall.

*The Ådalen (prov. designation) meteorite is not formally described and published in the Meteoritical Bulletin, due to an ongoing ownership dispute. Nevertheless, from pictures alone, it is undoubtedly an Iron meteorite (see KY23 or this karmaka.de article).
**The orbital parameters of the Almahata Sitta precursor asteroid (2008 TC3) and the Saint-Pierre-le-Viger precursor asteroid (2023 CX1) are known to better precision than the number of digits shown in this table.
i Designates an initially published orbit solution superseded by a more precise later determination.

Thanks to Gábor Pekari, Javor Kac and Filip Hlobik for spotting errors in the table. Special thanks to Gabriel Gonçalves Silva for helping to find several publications about newly published meteorite orbits.

References

• AN22: Andrade et al. 2022. The Traspena meteorite: heliocentric orbit, atmospheric trajectory, strewn field, and petrography of a new L5 ordinary chondrite. Montly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 518:3850-3876, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2911
• BL09: Bland et al. 2009. An Anomalous Basaltic Meteorite from the Innermost Main Belt. Science 325:1525-1527.
• BL16: Bland et al. 2016. Fall and Recovery of the Murrili Meteorite, and an Update on the Desert Fireball Network. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Abstract #6265.
• BO03: Borovička et al. 2003. The Morávka meteorite fall: 1 Description of the events and determination of the fireball trajectory and orbit from video records. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 38:975-987.
• BO13a: Borovička et al. 2013. The Košice meteorite fall: Atmospheric trajectory, fragmentation, and orbit. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 48:1757-1779.
• BO13b: Borovička et al. 2013a. The trajectory, structure and origin of the Chelyabinsk asteroidal impactor. Nature 503:235-237.
• BO15: Borovička et al. 2015. The instrumentally recorded fall of the Križevci meteorite, Croatia, February 4, 2011. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 50:1244-1259.
• BO21: Borovička et al. 2021. Trajectory and orbit of the unique carbonaceous meteorite Flensburg. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 56:425-439.
• BR00: Brown P. G., Hildebrand A. R., Zolensky M. E., Grady M., Clayton R. N., Mayeda T. K., Tagliaferri E., Spalding R., MacRae N. D., Hoffman E. L., Mittlefehldt D. W., Wacker J. F., Bird J. A., Campbell M. D., Carpenter R., Gingerich H., Glatiotis M., Greiner E., Mazur M. J., McCausland P. J. A., Plotkin H., Rubak Mazur T., 2000. The Fall, Recovery, Orbit, and Composition of the Tagish Lake Meteorite: A New Type of Carbonaceous Chondrite. Science 290:320-325.
• BR04: Brown P., Pack D., Edwards W. N., ReVelle D. O., Yoo B. B., Spalding R. E. and Tagliaferri E., 2004. The orbit, atmospheric dynamics, and initial mass of the Park Forest meteorite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 39:1781-1796.
• BR11: Brown P., McCausland P. J. A., Fries M., Silber E., Edwards W. N., Wong D. K., Weryk R. J., Fries J. and Krzeminski Z., 2011. The fall of the Grimsby meteorite—I: Fireball dynamics and orbit from radar, video, and infrasound records. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 46:339-363.
• BR19: Brown P.G., Vida D., Moser D.E. , Granvik M., Koshak W.J., Chu D., Steckloff J., Licata A., Hariri S., Mason J., Mazur M., Cooke W., and Krzeminski Z., 2019. The Hamburg Meteorite Fall: Fireball trajectory, orbit and dynamics. Meteoritics & Planetary Science.
• BR23: P. Brown et al. 2023. The Golden Meteorite Fall: Fireball Trajectory, Orbit and Meteorite Characterization. arXiv:2310.17822
• BR94: Brown P., Ceplecha Z., Hawkes R. L., Wetherill G., Beech M., and Mossman K., 1994. The orbit and atmospheric trajectory of the Peekskill meteorite from video records. Nature 367:624-626.
• CE61: Ceplecha Z., 1961. Multiple fall of Přibram meteorites photographed. Bulletin of the Astronomical Institute of Czechoslovakia 12:21-47.
• CI21: Y. Ceballos-Izquierdo, J. Orihuela, G. G. Silva, M. Zurita, D. C. Murão, and H. D. Manzor, 2021. Meteorite and bright fireball records from Cuba. Mineralia Slovaca 53 (2), 131-145.
• CR05: Ceplecha Z. and ReVelle D. O., 2005. Fragmentation model of meteoroid motion, mass loss, and radiation in the atmosphere. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 40:35-54.
• DE18: Devillepoix H. A. R., Sansom E. K., Bland P. A., Towner M. C., Cupák M., Howie R. M., Jansen-Sturgeon T., Cox M. A., Hartig B. A. D., Benedix G. K., and Paxman J. P., 2018. The Dingle Dell meteorite: a Halloween treat from the Main Belt. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 53, p.2212-2227.
• DE22: Devillepoix H.A.R., Sansom E.K., Shober P., Anderson S.L., Towner M.C., Lagain A., Cupak M., Bland P.A., Howie R.M., Jansen-Sturgeon T., Hartig B.A.D., Sokolowski M., Benedix G., and Forman L. (2022). Trajectory, recovery, and orbital history of the Madura Cave meteorite. Arxiv.org, DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2202.06641.
• FE20: Ferus M., Petera L., Koukal J., Lenza L., Drtinova B., Haloda J., Matysek D., Pastorek A., Laitl V., Cassio Poltronieri R., Wagner Domingues M., Goncalves G., del Olmo Sato R., Knizek A., Kubelik P., Kirvkova A., Srba J., Augusto di Pietro C., Bousa M., Vaculovic T., and Civis S., 2020. Elemental composition, mineralogy and orbital parameters of the Porangaba meteorite. Icarus, available online.
• GA20: Gardiol D. et al. (131 co-authors). Cavezzo, the first Italian meteorite recovered by the PRISMA fireball network. Orbit, trajectory, and strewn-field. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, available online.
• GR24: Gritsevich et al. 2024. The Fireball of November 24, 1970, as the Most Probable Source of the Ischgl Meteorite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, accepted. arxiv: 2404.11989
• GU24: Guennoun et al. 2024. Fall area calculateion and association of meteor orbits with parent bodies: a case study using the MOFID network for Taghzout meteorite fall Morocco. MetSoc Abstract 6215.
• HA78: Halliday I., Blackwell A. T., and Griffin A. A., 1978. The Innisfree meteorite and the Canadian camera network. Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 72:15-39.
• HA12: Haack H., Grau T., Bischoff A., Horstmann M., Wasson J., Sorensen A., Laubenstein M., Ott U., Palme H., Gellissen M., Greenwood R.C., Pearson V.K., Franchi I.A., Gabelica Z., and Schmitt-Kopplin P., 2012. Maribo – A new CM fall from Denmark. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 47:30-50.
• JE09: Jenniskens P., Shaddad M. H., Numan D., Elsir S., Kudoda A. M., Zolensky M. E., Le L., Robinson G. A., Friedrich J. M., Rumble D., Steele A., Chesley S. R., Fitzsimmons A., Duddy S., Hsieh H. H., Ramsay G., Brown P. G., Edwards W. N., Tagliaferri E., Boslough M. B., Spalding R. E., Dantowitz R., Kozubal M., Pravec P., Borovička J., Charvat Z., Vaubaillon J., Kuiper J., Albers J., Bishop J. L., Mancinelli R. L., Sandford S. A., Milam S. N., Nuevo M. and Worden S. P., 2009. The impact and recovery of asteroid 2008 TC3. Nature 458:458-488.
• JE12: Jenniskens P., Fries M. D., Yin Q.-Z., Zolensky M., Krot A. N., Sandford S. A., Sears D., Beauford R, Ebel D. S., Friedrich J. M., Nagashima K., Wimpenny J., Yamakawa A., Nishiizumi K., Hamajima Y., Caffee M. W., Welten K. C., Laubenstein M., Davis A. M., Simon S. B., Heck P. R., Young E. D., Kohl I. E., Thiemens M. H., Nunn M. H., Mikouchi T., Hagiya K., Ohsumi K., Cahill T. A., Lawton J. A., Barnes D., Steele A., Rochette P., Verosub K. L., Gattacceca J., Cooper G., Glavin D. P., Burton A. S., Dworkin J. P., Elsila J. E., Pizzarello S., Ogliore R., Schmitt-Kopplin P., Harir M., Hertkorn N., Verchovsky A., Grady M., Nagao K., Okazaki R., Takechi H., Hiroi T., Smith K., Silber E. A., Brown P. G., Albers J., Klotz D., Hankey M., Matson R., Fries J. A., Walker R. J., Puchtel I., Lee C. A., Erdman M. E., Eppich G. R., Roeske S., Gabelica Z., Lerche M., Nuevo M., Girten B., Worden S. P., 2012.  Radar-Enabled Recovery of the Sutter’s Mill Meteorite, a Carbonaceous Chondrite Regolith Breccia. Science 338:1583-1587.
• JE14: Jenniskens P., Rubin A. E., Yin Q.-Z., Sears D. W. G., Sandford S. A., Zolensky M. E., Krot A. N., Blair L., Kane D., Utas J., Verish R., Friedrich J. M., Wimpenny J., Eppich G. R., Ziegler K., Verosub K. L., Rowland D. J., Albers J., Gural P. S., Grigsby B., Fries M. D., Matson R., Johnston M., Silber E., Brown P., Yamakawa A., Sanborn M. E., Laubenstein M., Welten K. C., Nishiizumi K., Meier M. M. M., Busemann H. , Clay P., Caffee M. W., Schmitt-Kopplin P., Hertkorn N., Glavin D. P., Callahan M. P.,  Dworkin J. P., Wu Q., Zare R. N., Grady M., Verchovsky S., Emel’yanenko V., Naroenkov S., Clark D., Girten B., Worden P. S., 2014. Fall, Recovery and Characterization of the Novato L6 Chondrite Breccia. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 49:1388-1424.
• JE19: P. Jenniskens, J. Utas, Q.-Z. Yin, R. D. Matson, M. Fries, A. Howell, D. Free, J. Albers, H. Devillpoix, Ph. Bland, A. Miller, R. Verish, D. K. Prabhu, M. E. Zolensky, K. Ziegler, K. L. Verosub, D. Rowland, D. R. Ostrowski, K. Bryson, J. Dotson, M. Laubenstein, M. Sanborn, Q. Zhou, Q.-L. Li, X.-H. Li, Yu Liu, G.-Q. Tang, K. C. Welten, M. M. M. Meier, A. A. Plant, C. Maden, H. Busemann, and M. Granvik. The Creston, California, meteorite fall and the origin of L chondrites. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, available online.
• JE20: P. Jenniskens, N. Moskovitz, L. A. J. Garvie, Q.-Z. Yin, J. A. Howell, D. L. Free, J. Albers, D. Samuels, M. D. Fries, P. Mane, D. R. Dunlap, K. Ziegler, M. Sanborn, Q. Zhou, Q.-L. Li, X.-H. Li, Y. Liu, G.-Q. Tang, K. C. Welten, M. W. Caffee, H. Busemann, M. M. M. Meier, and D. Nesvorny. Orbit and origin of the Dishchii’bikoh (Arizona) LL7 chondrite. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 55:535-557.
• JE21: P. Jenniskens, M. Gabadirwe, Q.-Z. Yin, A. Proyer, O. Moses, T. Kohout, F. Franchi, R. L. Gibson, R. Kowalski, E. J. Christensen, A. R. Gibbs, A. Heinze, L. Denneau, D. Farnocchia, P. W. Chodas, W. Gray, M. Micheli, N. Moskovitz, C. A. Onken, C. Wolf, H. A. R. Devillepoix, Q. Ye, D. K. Robertson, P. Brown, E. Lyytinen, J. Moilanen, J. Albers, T. Cooper, J. Assink, L. Evers, P. Lahtinen, L. Seitshiro, M. Laubenstein, N. Wantlo, P. Moleje, J. Maritinkole, H. Suhonen, M. E. Zolensky, L. Ashwal, T. Hiroi, D. W. Sears, A. Sehlke, A. Maturilli, M. E. Sanborn, M. H. Hyskens, S. Dey, K. Ziegler, H. Busemann, M. E. I. Riebe, M. M. M. Meier, K. C. Welten, M. W. Caffee, Q. Zhou, Q.-L. Li, X.-H. Li, Y. Liu, G.-Q. Tang, H. L. McLain, J. P. Dworkin, D. P. Glavin, P. Schmitt-Kopplin, H. Sabbah, C. Joblin, M. Granvik, B. Mosarwa, and K. Botepe. Asteroid 2018 LA, impact, recovery and origin on Vesta. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, available online.
• JPL-SB-DB: JPL Small-Body Database, ssd.jpl.nasa.gov
• KA20: Kartaschova A., Golubaev A., Mozgova A., Chuvashov I., Bolgova G., Glazachev D., Efremov V., 2020. Investigation of the Ozerki meteoroid parameters. Planetary and Space Sciene 193:105034.
• KI22: King A. J. et al. (122 co-authors), 2022. The Winchcombe meteorite, a unique and pristine witness from the outer solar system. Science Advances 8, 46. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq3925
• KO21: Kovago G., 2021. Link to text in ADS.
• KY23: Kyrylenko I., Golubov O., Slyusarev I., Visuri J., Gritsevich M., Krugly Y. N., Belskaya I., and Shevchenko V. G. The First Instrumentally Documented Fall of an Iron Meteorite: Orbit and Possible Origin. The Astrophysical Journal 953:20. DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/acdc21
• MB112: Meteoritical Bulletin 112 (2023), in preparation.
• MC71: McCrosky R. E., Posen A., Schwartz G., and Shao C.-Y., 1971. Lost City Meteorite – Its Recovery and a Comparison with Other Fireballs. Journal of Geophysical Research 76:4090-4180.
• ME20: Meier M. M. M., Gritsevich M., Welten K. C., Lyytinen E., Plant A.A., Maden C., and Busemann H. Orbit, Meteoroid Size and Cosmic History of the Osceola (L6) Meteorite. EPSC abstracts, Vol. 14, EPSC2020-730.
• MI10: Milley E. P., 2010. Physical Properties of Fireball-Producing Earth-Impacting Meteoroids and Orbit. Determination through Shadow Calibration of the Buzzard Coulee Meteorite Fall. MSc thesis, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Accessed on Aug. 18th, 2016 at: http://hdl.handle.net/1880/47937.
• SH22: Shrbeny et al. 2022. Meteoritics & Planetary Sciences 57:2108-2126. DOI: 10.1111/maps.13929
• SR22: Shober et al. 2022. Meteoritics & Planetary Sciences 57:1146-1157. DOI: 10.1111/maps.13813
• SP03: Spurný P., Oberst J., and Heinlein D., 2003. Photographic observations of Neuschwanstein, a second meteorite from the orbit of the Přibram chondrite. Nature 434:151-153.
• SP10: Spurný P., Borovička J., Kac J., Kalenda P., Atanackov J., Kladnik G., Heinlein D. and Grau T., 2010. Analysis of instrumental observations of the Jesenice meteorite fall on April 9, 2009. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 45:1392-1407.
• SP12a: Spurný P., Bland P. A., Shrbený L.¡, Borovička J., Ceplecha Z., Singelton A., Bevan A. W. R., Vaughan D., Towner M. C., McClafferty T. P., Toumi R. and Deacon G., 2012a. The Bunburra Rockhole meteorite fall in SW Australia: fireball trajectory, luminosity, dynamics, orbit, and impact position from photographic and photoelectric records. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 47:163-185.
• SP12b: Spurný P., Bland P. A., Borovička J., Towner M. C., Shrbený L., Bevan A. W. R., Vaughan D., 2012b. The Mason Gully meteorite fall in SW Australia: Fireball trajectory, luminosity, dynamics, orbit and impact position from photographic records. Asteroids, Comets, Meteors. Proceedings of the conference held May 16-20, 2012 in Niigata, Japan.  Abstract #6369.
• SP13: Spurný P, Borovička J., Haack H., Singer W., Jobse K., and Keuer D., 2013. Trajectory and orbit of the Maribo CM2 meteorite from optical, photoelectric and radar records. Meteoroids 2013 Conference, abstract #111.
• SP14: Spurný P., Haloda J., Borovička J., Shrbený L. and Halodová P, 2014. Reanalysis of the Benešov bolide and recovery of polymict breccia meteorites – old mystery solved after 20 years. Astronomy & Astrophysics 570, A39.
• SP16a: Spurný P., 2016. Instrumentally documented meteorite falls: two recent cases and statistics from all falls. Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 318:69-79.
• SP17: Spurný P., Borovička J., Baumgarten G., Haack H., Heinlein D., Sørensen A.N., 2017. Atmospheric trajectory and heliocentric orbit of the Ejby meteorite fall in Denmark on February 6, 2016. Planetary and Space Science 147:192-198.
• SP20: Spurný P., Borovička J., Shrbený L., 2020. The Žďár nad Sázavou meteorite fall: Fireball trajectory, photometry, dynamics, fragmentation, orbit, and meteorite recovery. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, available online.
• TR06: Trigo-Rodríguez J. M., Borovička J., Spurný P., Ortiz J. L., Docobo J. A., Castro-Tirado A. J. and Llorca J., 2006. The Villalbeto de la Peña meteorite fall: II. Determination of atmospheric trajectory and orbit. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 41:505-517.
• TR15: Trigo-Rodríguez J.M., Lyytinen E., Gritsevich M., Moreno-Ibáñez M., Bottke W.F., Williams I., Lupovka V., Dmitriev V., Kohout T. and Grokhovsky V., 2015. Orbit and dynamic origin of the recently recovered Annama’s H5 chondrite. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 449, 2119-2127.
• TO23: Tosi A., Zucolotto M. E., Andrade D. P., Winter O. C., Mourão D. C., Sfair R., Ziegler K., Perez P. D., Suarez S., Ornellas I. D., Zurita M., Mendes J. C., Kellner A. W., Wolff W. The Santa Filomena meteorite shower: Trajectory, classification, and opaque phases as indicators of metamorphic conditions. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 58:621-642. DOI:10.1111/maps.13976
• UN19: O. Unsalan, P. Jenniskens, Q.-Z. Yin, E. Kaygisiz, J. Albers, D. L. Clark, M. Granvik, I. Demirkol, I. Y. Erdogan, A. S. Bengu, M. E. Özel, Z. Terzioglu, N. Gi, P. Brown, E. Yalcinkaya, T. Temel, D. K. Prabhu, D. K. Robertson, M. Boslough, D. R. Ostrowski, J. Kimberley, S. Er, D. J. Rowland, K. L. Bryson, C. Altunayar-Unsalan, B. Ranguelov, A. Karamanov, D. Tatchev, Ö. Kocahan, M. I. Oshtrakh, A. A. Maksimova, M. S. Karabanalov, K. L. Verosub, E. Levin, I. Uysal, V. Hoffmann, T. Hiroi, V. Reddy, G. O. Ildiz, O. Bolukbast, M. E. Zolensky, R. Hochleitner, M. Kaliwoda, S. Öngen, R. Fausto, B. A. Nogueira, A. V. Chukin, D. Karashanova, V. A. Semiokin, M. Yesiltas, T. Glotch, A. Yilmaz, J. M. Friedrich, M. E. Sanborn, M. Huyskens, K. Ziegler, C. D. Williams, M. Schönbächler, K. Bauer, M. M. M. Meier, C. Maden, H. Busemann, K. C. Welten, M. W. Caffee, M. Laubenstein, Q. Zhou, Q.-L. Li, X.-H. Li, Y. Liu, G.-Q. Tang, D. W. G. Sears, H. L. McLain, J. P. Dworkin, J. E. Elsila, D. P. Glavin, Ph. Schmitt-Kopplin, A. Ruf, L. Le Corre, and N. Schmedemann, 2019. Howardite fall in Turkey: Source crater of HED meteorites on Vesta and impact risk of Vestoids. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, available online.
• VI21: D. Vida, D. Šegon, M. Šegon, J. Atanackov, B. Ambrožič, L. McFadden, L. Ferrière, J. Kac, G. Kladnik, M. Živčić, A. Merlak, I. Skokić, L. Pavletić, G. Vinčić, I. Ćiković, Z. Perkó, M. Ilari, M. Malarić, and I. Macuka, 2021. Novo Mesto meteorite fall – trajectory, orbit, and fragmentation analysis from optical observations. EPSC abstracts 15, EPSC2021-139.
• ZU19: J. I. Zuluaga, P. A. Cuartas-Restrepo, J. Ospina and M. Sucerquia, 2019. Can we predict the impact conditions of metre-sized meteoroids? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters 486 (1), L69-L73.