Global registries and databases exist for tracking and cataloging fallen meteors
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Official records from Astromaterials Research & Exploration Science document meteorite falls and provide guidance on further exploration and finding meteorites.
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Astromaterials Research & Exploration Science
METEORITE FALLS
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AUTHOR
Dr. Marc Fries
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Dr. Marc Fries
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The American Meteor Society
https://www.amsmeteors.org
The mission of AMS is to encourage and promote research activities of both amateur
and professional astronomers who are directly interested in meteoric astronomy.
The International Meteor Organization
https://www.imo.net
IMO's collection of meteor observations from all around the world ensures
the comprehensive study of meteor showers and their relation to comets and
interplanetary dust.
The Meteoritical Society
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/
Our members include over 1000 scientists and enthusiasts from 52 countries
who study meteorites, cosmic dust, asteroids, comets, samples returned by
space missions, impact craters, and the origins of the Solar System.
NASA Antarctic Meteorite Collection
https://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/antmet/
Established in 1977, the US Antarctic Meteorite Program has recovered meteorites
from many different geographic regions in the Transantarctic Mountains.
Smithsonian Meteorite Collection
https://mineralsciences.si.edu/collections/meteorites.htm
The Department of Mineral Sciences maintains a world-class research collection of
rocks, minerals and meteorites. Specimens from the research collection are available
for loan to researchers, in most cases free of charge.
NASA Bolides Database
https://neo-bolide.ndc.nasa.gov/
The Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) is designed to capture natural lightning activity,
but it is also capable of detecting large meteors, called bolides. GLM's large coverage area
allows it to capture unprecedented numbers of meteors and its data is publicly accessible.
Strewnify
https://www.strewnify.com/
This meteorite hunting website provides modeled strewn fields for potential meteorite falls. It
ARES | Meteorite Falls | How to Find Meteorites
Astromaterials Research & Exploration Science
METEORITE FALLS
HOW TO FIND METEORITES
HOW TO FIND METEORITES
HOW TO FIND METEORITES
AUTHOR
Dr. Marc Fries
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AUTHOR
Dr. Marc Fries
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This is a step-by-step guide on how to locate meteorite falls using weather radar.
The best approach is to have several people using this technique, and then to share
their findings to reach a consensus on whether or not they have a searchable event.
This is a step-by-step guide on how to locate meteorite falls using weather radar.
The best approach is to have several people using this technique, and then to share
their findings to reach a consensus on whether or not they have a searchable event.
STEP ONE
STEP ONE
Keep an eye out for reports of large, bright events that
may indicate a meteorite fall through these resources:
The American Meteor Society
https://www.amsmeteors.com
The American Meteor Society web page has a public meteor reporting page
that allows the general public to report large fireballs. They sort the
reports by event, simplifying the task of localizing the fall area. From
the AMS home page, pull down the "Fireballs" menu and select "Fireball Logs":
https://www.amsmeteors.org/fireballs/fireball-report/
Figure 1: A typical AMS event report, in this case event number 1743 for the year 2013.
Source: http://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball_event/2013/1743
Blue symbols are the locations of eyewitnesses. Green lines indicate the direction
(or "azimuth") where an eyewitness first noticed the fireball, and red lines are
azimuths pointing towards where the eyewitness saw the fireball disappear. The end
of the fireball’s visible path, or "fireball terminus", can be estimated from where
all the red lines cross. In this case, the fireball terminus is in west-central
Mississippi. Knowing this location is important, as it tells us where to start
searching through radar imagery for ev
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