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Ah, technically correct.. the best sort of correct.

It seems to me though that a meteoroid that has evidently survived reentry but has not yet reached "the surface" properly might be something of a previously unhandled edge case. Normally you would avoid naming meteoroids to be meteorites until after you have found them safely on the ground because it is possible that they burned up during their observation, but this one was observed well after the point where it may have burned up. Also from a delta-v perspective, it had already performed the majority of its transition (from kilometers per second to likely less than a hundred meters per second).



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