WA’s south west isn’t the best terrain for finding meteorites, but that’s where you would have found some last week, along with the Fireballs in the Sky team  – at the Albany Science Awareness Festival. Lucy and Jay had a great time with the folks in Albany  for the Scitech Albany Science Awareness Festival and Great Southern Science Council Careers Rock! Forum. We met more […]

I was lucky enough to attend the launch of the Desert Science Network in Alice Springs last week. I met a bunch of interesting people and learnt about loads of exciting projects happening in areas near or similar to where our Desert Fireball Network cameras are stationed. The Desert Science Network exists to connect the science and the people that live and work in desert […]

We had 21 written reports, 6 app reports, 6 dash cam videos and 59 appearances on TV, radio, online and print newspapers, so you probably heard about it – a fireball over Perth in mid-morning last month. The only meteorite-finding content missing was capturing the fireball on our DFN cameras, because they are designed only to operate after dark (read about the fireball day […]

Last month, Mr Gargano and the students at St Joseph’s School, Northam, hosted Professor Phil Bland, Doctor Gretchen Benedix and Jay Ridgewell from the Fireballs team. We were excited to meet one of our participating schools in the program and share with them the science and wonder of meteors and meteorite study. Phil talked to the year 7s, 8s, 9s and 10s […]

Comet along to Astrofest this weekend! It’s going to be a great bunch of fun at Astrofest at the weekend, and to entice you, here’s some pictures from the World’s Largest Astronomy Lesson last month. The astronomy lesson was a fantastic coming together of the community with telescopes, binoculars and wonder. We’ll be making comets out of dry ice and talking about […]

Why surveying? – Fireballs in the Sky   To accurately track down the trajectory of the meteor, we need to know the exact angle vertically and horizontally as well as velocity of entry. To do this we are extracting information from each of the different videos. The team have already been out to the Scarborough Beach Rd/Charles St intersection with help from […]

Perth Daytime Fireball 9 March 2015 Storify – Fireballs in the Sky [View the story “Perth daytime fireball” on Storify]

Think you found the Perth Daytime Fireball meteorite? Our scientists aren’t ruling out that the fireball on Monday resulted in a meteorite – in fact if there’s any rocks around, there’s probably quite a few. The fireball was last seen Monday 9:30 am fragmenting in the sky north of Perth. Bring your suspected meteorite along to Curtin University on Friday to speak […]

Perth Daytime Fireball – sightings – Fireballs in the Sky Maree It was 9:26 (I looked at the clock after I saw it) and I was about 80 km before Southern Cross on the highway from Kalgoorlie. I passed an 80km sign just before I saw it. It crossed right in front of my car for about one second and went down […]

It’s been a very exciting day at Curtin Uni amongst the Fireballs in the Sky team, thanks to the Perth daytime fireball at around 9:25 am this morning. Click here for the storify summary of the way the excitement played out today online. From all app sightings, reports and dash cam videos it seems the flash of white light, or streaming fireball […]