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A team of astronomers used a rather unconventional way to trace the landing site of a meteorite that entered Earth’s atmosphere. But if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right?
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The team of astronomers worked on an article that took all images of a meteorite crossing the sky over Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Austria and Hungary in 2020 Dr. Denis Vida from the University of Western Ontario presented the article at the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2021 and explained that the team had used a collection of video footage from multiple cameras approximately 100 km away. .
Vida said: “By combining observations from several cameras about 100 kilometers apart, the position of a fireball can be located within 50 meters, and it is usually quite easy to calculate its atmospheric trajectory and its pre-atmospheric orbit from this. way.“The meteorite was estimated to be around four metric tons when it entered Earth’s atmosphere, and when it plunged to the surface, it split into at least seventeen individual pieces. Three of the pieces weigh 720 cams.
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