A specialist camera at Space Park Leicester has captured a fireball travelling through the sky.
The search for a suspected meteorite has started after a bright fireball was seen travelling over the East Midlands.at Space Park Leicester captured the object flying over the region on Saturday.
New technology was able to establish the trajectory of the meteor, including where the meteorite associated with it landed. The fireball was captured using a 360 degree camera at Space Park Leicester, which is part of FRIPON – the Fireball Recovery and InterPlanetary Observation Network.The network aims to detect fireballs and help scientists recover meteorites that fall to Earth.
“Because the technology is new, how many times we’re going to be able to turn a fireball trajectory into a recovered stone that we can go and pick up is an interesting question.
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