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Nature 423, 123-124 (8 May 2003) | doi:10.1038/423123a
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Planetary Science: Catch a falling star
Jack Drummond
Abstract
The European Fireball Network has recovered a meteorite after photographing its violent entry into the Earth's atmosphere. This is only the fourth such recovery, and analysis points to a surprising past for this primitive object.
Meteoroids, or rocks from space, are seen travelling through the Earth's atmosphere as fireballs — extremely bright shooting stars or meteors — and any surviving debris is scattered as meteorites. For more than 40 years, networks of cameras have been primed to capture images of the incoming fireballs, and pinpoint the landing sites of their meteorites, with the aim of tracing the precise orbit and likely origin of the meteoroid.
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