Very interesting The UK Fireball Alliance aims to recover freshly-fallen meteorites in the UK. Led by staff of the Natural History Museum, UKFall is a collaboration between the UK’s meteor camera networks. The Science About 65,000 meteorites have been found world-wide Only about 40 of these 65,000 were photographed as they arrived as a fireball Meteor camera networks photograph incoming meteors from multiple locations That allows the meteor’s path through the atmosphere to be calculated accurately From this, the meteorite’s likely landing point can be estimated This helps us find it before it gets rained on or very contaminated The object’s orbit before hitting the Earth can also be calculated. So, we have a freshly-recovered object and we know where in the solar system it came from; a really powerful combination that helps us understand the solar system. Also, the meteorite’s hardness, strength, density and composition can be compared with its path through the atmosphere to learn more about the physics of meteorite and comet impacts. https://www.ukfall.org.uk/
