One of the ’star gazing’ cameras in the Australian outback
Catch a falling star and find out where it came from. Second meteorite in Australian desert revealed by 'star gazing' cameras ? News Tuesday 13 December 2010 - by Colin Smith Scientists are celebrating the discovery of a second meteorite in the Western Australian desert using 'star gazing' cameras. The images from the cameras will reveal the space rock's original orbit in the Solar System. Meteorites are a geological record of the formation of the Solar System, providing important information about early conditions. Locating where they come from is important, because it enables scientists to link geological information to the correct location in space. However, information about where individual meteorites originated, and how they moved around the Solar System before falling to Earth is rare; we know the origins of only a dozen of around 1100 documented meteorite falls over the past 200 years. Dr Phil Bland , from the Department of Earth Science and Engineering at Imperial College London, leads the team that found the new meteorite: "Meteorites are like ancient jigsaw puzzle pieces.
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