Blog - Fireballs in the Sky

28 May Transient astronomy with the DFN

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Transient Astronomical Events or 'transients' are flickers in space - changes in light that last for seconds, days, weeks or years at a time. These could be caused by supernovae, gamma ray bursts, or asteroids and planets passing in front of their sun. Hadrien's doing a...

21 May Oodnadatta Fireball

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Oodnadatta Fireball - Fireballs in the Sky [caption id="attachment_1615" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Oodnadatta Fireball 1 April 2015, Credit: Peter Jerie[/caption] Did we mention how much we love fireballs? This image of an Oodnadatta Fireball was taken by Peter Jerie, amateur astrophotographer on 1 April 2015. We came across...

13 May Albany Science Awareness Festival

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[caption id="attachment_1602" align="alignright" width="400"] Lucy shares with the year 10s of Albany how she scored a wicked science job[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1600" align="alignright" width="400"] Lucy explains how to find out if it's a meteorite or meteorwrong[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1601" align="alignright" width="400"] Great to see you Albany at the family...

27 Apr Fireballs joins the Desert Science Network

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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. [caption...

23 Apr Perth Daytime Fireball update

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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...

20 Apr St Joseph’s School Northam meet the Prof

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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. [caption id="attachment_1484" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Crater Making - Jessie Osboine, Aberdeen Abel, Danielle Lucy, Leilani Dunkerton, Georgia Pankiw[/caption] We were excited to...