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Special issue of Meteoritical Society all about the Winchcombe meteorite is now out at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19455100/2… featuring collaboration of the UK Fireball Network network of cameras and the UK extraterrestrial sample analysis community

New potential meteorite dropping fireball ☄️☄️observed by UK Fireball Alliance cameras in the UK near Stoke last week - read more at ukfall.org.uk/2024-the-stoke… please keep an eye out in case anyone finds a potential meteorite 🪨🪨 in the area and report it to us

Some exciting Fri morning news! Some of you may know I have been working on an introductory level Python textbook for astronomy --- it is now published! iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-… Anyone with institutional IOP access should be able to view the PDF for free.

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This is a stack of all detections on one night from one meteor camera. More than 95% of all the trails are satellites and more than 80% of all those are part of Starlink. New cameras are part of a project led by Denis Vida to track all objects in LEO over Canada.

#Meteor rates are really starting to pick up on our 4 #GMN #MeteorCameras now. Over a hundred per camera thanks to the #Perseids #KappaCygnids #AlphaCapricornids #SouthernDeltaAquarids + sporadics. The aircraft trails were in the same frame as a meteor but not counted.

Another very busy night on our #MeteorCameras last night in #Oxfordshire with #Perseids rates ramping up. We had 1,184 matched #meteors across the UK last night! The dotted lines are aircraft that were in the shot at the same time as a meteor #MeteorShower #Perseids2024

BIG NEWS! CSS observer Jacqueline Fazekas has just discovered a small meteoroid that will harmlessly impact with Earth's atmosphere in about 8 hours over the Western Pacific. The object (called CAQTDL2) is small, a few feet in diameter. Attached are the discovery images.

Our current prediction sees the most likely atmospheric entry above the pacific, to the northeast of the Island of Luzon (Philippines)

📣UPDATE: We expect the ~1 m asteroid discovered this morning to strike Earth's atmosphere over the Philippines near Luzon Island at 16:46 UTC today. However the nearby tropical storm Yagi/Enteng will make fireball observations difficult. Stay safe everyone!

Here’s how Asteroid RW1 looks like from Gonzaga, Cagayan, Philippines. Best shot so far!! 😍

Lots of spectators caught it 🤩

This space.com article talks about our paper! The #asteroid 2022 WJ1 our cameras in #Ontario observed dropped meteors in the Niagara region. It was the first object initially detected in space and observed by dedicated fireball cameras on the ground!