Braunschweig meteorite

The Braunschweig meteorite is a meteorite that hit Melverode, a suburb in Braunschweig, Germany, at around 2:05 AM on April 23, 2013. It hit the concrete pavement in front of the home of Erhard Seemann, breaking into hundreds of fragments on impact, the largest of which is . The meteorite created a small impact crater in the concrete, with a diameter of and a depth of .
Composition and classification.
The meteorite has been classified as an L6 ordinary chondrite.
Impact.
The meteorite fell at around 2:05 AM on April 23, 2013, with an estimated velocity of . It hit concrete pavement from Erhard Seemann's front door, breaking into hundreds of fragments upon impact. The largest fragment, with a mass of 214 grams, stuck in the concrete, forming an impact crater with a diameter of and a depth of . Fragments of concrete ejected from the impact were as wide as . Many other fragments of the meteorite were found within from the impact crater by several people. Traces of a secondary impact were found at a nearby brick wall in the form of indents wide. A total of of fragments were found.
Reports.
A neighbor reported hearing a strong hum and "whoosh" followed by a loud crash at around 2:10 AM, who then found four fragments of the meteorite on his driveway. In Ahlum, from the impact site, Julian Mascow reported a bright flare approaching from the southeast for 1–2 seconds, with a luminosity "like dawn," before ending in a "short tracer just over his head." He heard a loud explosion about 90 seconds later followed by a rumbling noise. Mark Vornhusen's web camera documented the fireball from Vechta, located about from Braunschweig. The light meter of a weather station in Brandenburg, approximately from Braunschweig, recorded 5 seconds of brightening. The Technical University of Braunschweig informed expert Rainer Bartoschewitz of the reports, who inspected the site on April 27 and confirmed the meteorite.