Park Forest (meteorite)

Park Forest is an L5 chondrite meteorite that fell on 26 March 2003 in Illinois, United States.

[1] Around midnight on March 26, 2003, a bright orange fireball was spotted in the sky which was visible across Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio.

In the following days, this event was officially named the Park Forest meteorite, as numerous stones or fragments were recovered in the area.

From page A207 of Meteoritics & Planetary Science 38, Nr 7, Supplement, A189–A248 (2003) Most stones are partly to fully fusion-crusted.

It is claimed that a large piece which fell through the kitchen ceiling of one Park Forest couple is periodically displayed at the Adler Planetarium.