Images from the field

: 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

: Digging in clay mud is hard work

: 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