The New Year’s Eve meteorite – rescued from Kati-Thanda-Lake Eyre south hours before all evidence on the surface would have been washed away on 31 December 2015
27 November 2015, 10:43 UTC – Billa Kalina camera
27 November 2015, 10:43 UTC – Wilpoorinna camera
27 November 2015, 10:43 UTC – William Creek
Impact feature as seen by Martin Cupak’s team in early December
Impact feature as seen by Martin Cupak’s team in early December
New purchase – a quad bike – should help the search (Jon Paxman, Phil Bland)
Outback SA
The search area
The search area
It’s a big search area and the impact feature had all but been washed away
Searching on foot (Phil in top right)
The mud sticks pretty well
End of day 2. Still no meteorite
Keeping smiling through the mud
William Creek Hotel
Trevor’s plane
Dean Stuart and Trevor Wright
The teams meet
The impact feature, as seen by the drone (top centre, with a smudge towards bottom right)
The diggers, seen from the flyers
Digging in clay mud is hard work
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The meteorite, freshly extracted from this mud hole
Rob Howie and Prof Phil Bland with THE meteorite
The joy of finding the meteorite
Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre South
The team – Dean Stuart, Dave Strangways, Professor Phil Bland, Dr Jon Paxman, Rob Howie
Australia’s Nullarbor: good meteorite searching terrain
Beautiful skies over the Nullarbor
Hard day’s end
Phil and Rob on the meteorite hunt
One of those trees isn’t a tree …
Luke adding the finishing touches to a new camera
Our new Fireballs ute has definitely run up the kilometers now!
Supplies for the field trip
Beautiful skies over the Nullarbor
Luke at the border
Australia’s Nullarbor: good meteorite searching terrain
The road to the camera
Beautiful skies over the Nullarbor
One of the 32 Desert Fireball Network cameras
Fireballs team meeting – Perth Daytime Fireball
Martin C and Jon in the office discussing how to counter the veritcal movement of the car from one of the dash cams – Perth Daytime Fireball
Fireballs team meeting – Perth Daytime Fireball
Surveying at Scarborough Beach Road – Perth Daytime Fireball
Scarborough Beach Road survey team
The evening view at SA camera Gum Glen
A chilly morning
Kondoolka, one of the first DFN observatories in the state of South Australia
Mount Ives, one of our first DFN observatories in the state of South Australia
The evening view at the Mt Ives DFN camera site
The new camera observatory going in at Mt Ives, South Australia
Heading off across the Nullarbor
The DFN team reenact seeing a fireball while meteorite searching
Luke at Barton DFN camera
Good meteorite searching ground – the outback
Setting up camp
All the meteor-wrongs – finding a rock on a rocky plain is harder than you might think!
DFN team searching for meteorites
A hard day’s searching means the DFN team can enjoy their afternoon cuppa
Some curious onlookers to the team’s progress
Katie’s makes it to the WA/SA border
Cockle-where? A successfull fireball network has to be truly out in ‘the middle of nowehre’ to aid meteorite recovery
Setting up a camera takes more than just heavy lifting
The Desert Fireball Network observatory at Mundrabilla
Rob gets closer to investigate
Ellie starting off the driving on a cold morning
Dirt tracks become double creeks in the wet
You know you’ve done a good job when you come back grubby
