Overview

• On June 26 a daytime fireball generated sonic booms and pierced the roof and floor of a McDonough residence, marking Georgia’s sixth witnessed meteorite fall.
• Investigators combined eyewitness reports, dashcam footage, and satellite tracking to recover 23 grams of meteorite fragments.
• University of Georgia scientists have submitted their findings to the Nomenclature Committee of the Meteoritical Society to formalize the McDonough Meteorite name.
• Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville is preparing an exhibition of the recovered pieces this fall.
• The homeowner continues to find specks of space dust in his living room months after the impact.