Originally posted by BorgHoffen
Has anyone got the video of the crater it left?
There was still some mass in that, it must have left something on the ground.
First of all they need to work out where it may have come down,
but despite this being a fairly bright fireball, that is no indicator that
anything survived. Also, if anything did survive, it would likely have been slowed down to free-fall speed many tens of miles above the ground.
If you're expecting a big crater, you're probably in for some disappointment...
Here is a pic of a crater left by the
meteor which came down over Canada last
November:
Visit the source for more pics:
skyriver.ca
If it survived with a significant portion of it's mass intact, a 0.5 tonne or so meteorite could leave a sizable hole, a few meters across, depending
on the terrain, but I doubt it was anywhere near that.