The Novato meteorite, an ordinary chondrite, broke apart over Northern California on 17 October 2012 after entering the atmosphere as a roughly 35-centimeter meteoroid. It became a bright fireball, generated sonic booms, and fragmented as friction slowed it. The fall was traced to the North Bay, where Lisa Webber found the first recovered fragment in Novato on 20 October after recalling a sound on her roof during the fireball. Dr. Alan Rubin identified that stone as an L6 breccia. Additional fragments were recovered in the following weeks, making the event notable as a well-observed meteorite fall tied to eyewitness reports, trajectory analysis, and fresh recoveries.