The Fireballs Aotearoa and #globalmeteornetwork cameras have detected meteors from a new #meteor shower produced by #comet 46P/Wirtanen! Although it had low activity (ZHR <= 5), it occurred exactly where and when it was predicted.

#Fireball on Nov 7, 2020, yielded the FIRST iron meteorite with a known orbit! The long YORP timescale suggests an origin in the main asteroid belt.

📝Our ApJ paper on the remarkable journey it endured: doi.org/10.3847/1538-4…

📸 Photo: Andreas Forsberg and Anders Zetterqvist

A July Pegasid #fireball has been observed by 10+ #globalmeteornetwork cameras over #Hungary , #Croatia & #Slovenia on July 15 12:51:40 UTC. It had an extremely high begin height of ~170 km and it ended at ~84 km.
Video from Croatia below.

And this is just a tiny aspect of this unique fall - it also helped to pinpoint the origin of Earth's water (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…), the impact history of the parent asteroid (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…), reveal organic matter in asteroids (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…), and much more!

Drone paper by Patrick Hill and Libby Tunney focuses on use of infrared imaging to find #meteorites on snow-covered fields. NOT because they are hot when they land but because they absorb more sunlight relative the snow around them!

I’m looking for new PhD students! We have new research funding to support our work on meteorites. Please visit the link below if you’re interested in applying. Hopefully planetary science people can retweet this one. monash.edu/science/school…

Not one, not two, but THREE #meteor ite falls recovered last week!

Get a #meteor camera & help find the next one ☄️

🤩☄️ FRIPON/Vigie-Ciel retrouve un fragment de l’astéroïde 2023CX1 en Seine Maritime !!! La découverte a été faite par Loïs Leblanc, étudiante de 18 ans, faisant partie de l’équipe de recherche sur le terrain #2023CX1 #SAR2667

The beginning of #SAR2667 fireball caught on a #globalmeteornetwork / @UKMeteorNetwork camera!

Read our interpretation of optical, radar, and infrasound data of a daytime #fireball that occurred over Sweden on Dec 4th 2020. Joyful collaboration across Nordic countries, University of Rostock, University of Leicester and more, lead by Juha Vierinen

doi.org/10.3389/fspas.…

Pretty excited to have one of the few ARC #DP23 projects funded this year with Andy Tomkins - 'Expanding the Foundation of Planetary Science'. Now we'll get to recover all those lonely meteorites who just want to tell their story of the early solar system.

And check out the fab Conversation article written by Hadrien D: theconversation.com/how-satellites…

news.westernu.ca/2022/11/niagar…

The magic of open source data / data sharing and multidisciplinary collaborations: Hadrien D, Joshua Soderholm, Andy Tomkins, Seamus Anderson, Dr Rachael Lappan and team found the biggest meteorite strewn field since Murchison in 1969!
tinyurl.com/3zsu3nnb

Hundreds of tau Herculid meteors were detected last from individual #globalmeteornetwork stations! Data analysis is in progress. Observing in person was also a rare treat, we saw short bursts of 7-8 meteors in a few minutes.
#Meteorshower #TauHerculids2022 Institute for Earth and Space Exploration

Daniel Thorngren I mean - you may have a point, but I write in a language older than I am (English), so shouldn't I also code in a language older than I am? :) I mean, those new fangled languages are cool, and all, but F77 is still the pick of the bunch :D

Today I learned that I haven’t needed a script for ‘back’ I have been carrying around in my shell profile for over twenty years

A joint statement between JAXA and the Australian Space Agency (ASA) was announced today (7/14). The Hayabusa2 re-entry capsule will return to Earth and land in South Australia on December 6, 2020 (Japan/Australia time). This is in 145 days: R-145! global.jaxa.jp/press/2020/07/…