Sutter s Mill Meteorite . ... Image Credit P. Jenniskens ( SETI Institute ) and Eric James ( NASA Ames ) Explanation: Last Sunday's bright fireball meteor falling through skies over California and Nevada produced sonic booms over a broad area around 7:21 am. ... Astronomer Peter Jenniskens subsequently recovered these fragments of a crushed 4 gram meteorite, the second find from this meteor fall , in the parking lot of the Henningsen-Lotus state park, not far from Sutter's Mill . ...