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3 March 2019 Together with a team from the Ernst-Mach Institut Freiburg, the Univ. Oldenburg, and NASA, our Meteor Research Group has surveyed the ram and zenith panels of the Columbus module on the International Space Station, using the video camera on the Canadian robotic arm. read more
9 November 2018 Today we have installed the 4th Dutch FRIPON camera. It will be hosted by A. Tukkers (Cosmos Sterrenwacht) in Denekamp. FRIPON, the Fireball Recovery and InterPlanetary Observation Network, consists of a network of all-sky cameras that monitor the night sky for fireballs. Special software will compute the orbit of the fireball, i.e. where the... read more
3 July 2018 ESA's Science Support Office's Meteor Research Group has participated in Asteroid Day 2018. As part of a 2-hour video stream prepared by ESA, we explained different things related to asteroids, meteors, fireballs... The image to the right shows a recording which was done to support this, on the roof of ESTEC, with our intern Kristiane Schmidt.... read more
24 February 2018 In Dec 2017, we have installed a second FRIPON camera in Oostkapelle, Zeeland, at the observatory of Klaas Jobse. We had recorded one smaller fireball together - last night we recorded one around lunar brightness! The camera directly after ihstallation can be seen on the left image. read more
23 September 2016 We have organized a 'Meteoroid flux density determination workshop' at ESTEC. For more information, see http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/meteor/meteoroid-flux-density-workshop. or go to the menu bar on the left to 'Projects/Meteoroid...\. read more
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