{"id":25268,"date":"2020-11-09T19:06:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T18:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmaka.de\/?page_id=25268"},"modified":"2024-01-24T08:08:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T07:08:57","slug":"tiros","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/karmaka.de\/?page_id=25268","title":{"rendered":"Tiros"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Tiros<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

TIROS meteorite fall ( ~400 g, Howardite, cumulate, S4) near Tiros, Minas Gerais, in Brazil at ~3.25.15 a.m. BRT (~6.25.15 UTC)<\/span> on 8 May 2020<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Tiros meteorite with its shiny fusion crust and flowlines. Photo: Meteor\u00edticas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

“Peguei ela quando eu vi. Eu pensei meu Deus isso \u00e9 um meteorito isso n\u00e3o \u00e9 pedra na Terra, \u00e9 um meteorito.” (Senhor Titota)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[I took it when I saw it. I thought my God this is a meteorite this is not a stone on Earth, it is a meteorite.]\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

A meteorite, a Eucrite (~ 400 g), of the bolide<\/a> above Minas Gerais (Brazil) on 8 May 2020 at 3.25 a.m. BRT (6.25 UT) was found by Mr Titota, a farmer from Tiros, in the afternoon of 18 September 2020 at location 18\u00b054’37.03″S, 45\u00b049’10.14″W<\/a> next to a trail while riding on his property about 150 meters from his farm house in the rural area of Tiros. After excluding that it was cow dung Mr Titota was attracted by the shiny surface of the meteorite and marked the find location to come back to it later in the afternoon to pick up the stone. He then made a video of the rock and sent it to Father Jos\u00e9 Lu\u00eds de Araujo Paiva who, remembering the bolide on 8 May, told him that in fact it could be a meteorite. The video was then sent to the journalist Sandro Barcelos who published the video on the Tirense Not\u00edcias<\/em> website. Teresinha Souza from the group Mulheres de Estrelas<\/em> realised the connection of the meteorite specimen to the May bolide and the group published a video of the meteorite in social media on 19 September. On 21 September Prof. Elizabeth Zucolotto inspected the meteorite for the first time. There have been no additional finds so far. The meteorite has been classified at the UFRJ (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro) and on 5 November a type specimen was handed over to the museum. On 28 November 2020 Tiros<\/strong><\/a> was registered as probable fall in the Meteoritical Bulletin Database. On 23 January 2024 the meteorite was reclassified as Howardite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Tiros meteorite with its shiny fusion crust. Photo: Mulheres de Estrelas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n