Wadsworth is a rare HED meteorite that fell in the US state of Ohio on 17 March 2026. A bright daytime bolide was seen streaking through the sky over Cleveland before fragmenting. With an estimated airburst energy equal to , it created a sonic boom heard dozens of miles from the event.
The fireball was captured by the GLM instrument aboard geostationary satellite GOES-19.
Fall A , asteroid entered the atmosphere on 17 March 2026, 08:57 EDT at an altitude of while moving at a speed of . It fragmented at an altitude of over Valley City after passing through the atmosphere. The bolide was seen as far as Wisconsin and Maryland. Falling fragments from the asteroid were observed by three weather radars located in Pittsburgh, Cleveland and the Terminal Doppler Weather Radar at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
Calculation of the strewn field resulted in a prediction of small stones being dropped to the northeast over a length and kilogram-scale fragments falling south of Rittman.
Meteorites The first pieces were found by meteorite hunters from Connecticut, Roberto Vargas and Matt Perison. These stones were 12.2 and 1.75 grams in mass. Soon after, many more fragments were found; so far the largest known fragment from this fall, which was found by Mark Sokol and others on 20 March 2026 weighs . A total of were found. This meteorite was scientifically classified by the Ohio Meteorite Classification (OMC) Team as a monomict eucrite.
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