Klekociuk, A., Brown, P., and ReVelle, D.,2005, Cosmic
hole-in-one: capturing dust from a meteoroid’s fiery
demise: Dust from a meteoroid explosion over
Antarctica was detected by the Davis lidar. Australian
Antarctic Magazine, no. 8, pp. 5-6 (Autumn 2005) at
[www.aad.gov.au] and PDF file at [www.aad.gov.au]

According to the article, the meteorite was 7–10 m
diameter, had a mass of 600–1900 tonnes, yielded
an explosion equivalent to 12,000 tonnes of TNT (the
yield of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb), was composed
of olivine, and impacted at 13 km/s.

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Monster Meteor Leaves Dusty Clues
By Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News, August 24, 2005
[dsc.discovery.com]

Meteor dust could affect climate, study suggests
AFP, August 24, 2005, [www.spacedaily.com]

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The published paper is:

Andrew R. Klekociuk, P. G. Brown, D. W. Pack, D. O.
ReVelle, W. N. E., Richard E. S., Edward T., Bernard
B. Y., and Joseph Z., 2005, Meteoritic dust from the
atmospheric disintegration of a large meteoroid.
Nature. vol. 436, no. 7054, pp. 1132-1136.
doi: 10.1038/nature03881 [www.nature.com]

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
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