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