On August 21, 2012 at 11:17 pm local time (2012 Aug 22 06:17 UTC) meteorites
began to fall on Battle Mountain in Humboldt County, Nevada, USA. It is classified
Ordinary chondrite (L6). The fall was observed in weather radar imagery from the
US NEXRAD radar network, operated by the US National Weather Service. The discovery
and analysis was done by Dr. Marc Fries, Galactic Analytics LLC. The KLRX radar in
Elko, Nevada, is approximately 33 km from the fall site and recorded the fall in
eight radar sweeps between 0619.26 UTC and 0621.03 UTC. This time span of 97 seconds
is short compared to other meteorite falls observed by radar. This could be a result
of meteorite production by a single, large breakup event, by relatively little
fragmentation, or a combination of the two factors. The first stone was recovered
on September 1, 2012.