Extended Data Table 2 Fragmentation details of 2023 CX1

From: Catastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defence

  1. The first three rows compare the timing and locations of fragmentation events identified from optical observations of the fireball, along with an independent determination of the main fragmentation event derived from acoustic measurements (see Methods ‘Seismo-acoustic analysis of the meteor’). The acoustic estimate shows good agreement with the optical results within uncertainties. The remaining rows present the separation heights and initial masses of the nine fragments identified in the video recorded from the village of La Fresnaye, along with the masses of meteorites recovered near their predicted landing sites.
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