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Table 2

Pressure factors, Pf, for bright meteorite-dropping fireballs and superbolides without meteorites.

Fireball Meteorite type m v pmax z Pf References
or Bolide date (kg) (km s−1) (MPa) (°)
Ordinary and enstatite chondrites
Chelyabinsk LL5 1.2 × 107 19 18 72 0.31 [1]
Kosice H5 3500 15 6 30 0.78 [2]
Moravka H5 1500 22.5 5 70 1.2 [3,4]
Neuschwanstein EL6 300 21.0 9.6 40 2.0 [5,6]
Hamburg H4 200 15.8 7 66 4.7 [7]
Žd’ár nad Sâzavou L3.9 150 21.9 2.7 65 1.2 [8]
Mixed breccias
Almahata Sitta Ureilite+E+H+.. 50,000 12.8 1.3 70 0.23 [9,10,6]
Benesov LL3.5+H5+.. 3500 21.3 9 9 0.61 [11,12]
Carbonaceous chondrites
Tagish Lake C2 90,000 15.8 2.2 72 0.25 [13,6]
Flensburg C1 20,000 19.4 2 65 0.20 [14]
Maribo CM2 2000 28.3 5 59 0.5 [15]
Large fragile bodies without meteorites
Sumava 1974-12-04 5000 26.9 0.14 63 0.013 [16]
Romanian 2015-01-07 4500 27.8 3 47 0.18 [17]
Taurid 2015-10-31 650 33.1 0.19 78 0.055 [18,19]

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