News archive - Meteor

3 July 2018ESA'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....

24 February 2018In 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.

23 September 2016We 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...\.

19 June 2016The VMO, the Virtual Meteor Observatory, was implemented when Geert Barentsen was at ESTEC. In the meantime Geert has moved to the Observatory of Armagh, but he is still working on the VMO. Currently, he is working together with Sirko Molau on setting up a page to produce life flux graphs similar to the ZHR graphs for visual observations. Have a...

13 May 2015We have used data from 12 months of our CILBO observations to determine the flux of meteoroids entering the Earth's atmosphere. Two students from the University of Oldenburg wrote their bachelor's thesis about this topic. They also presented their findings at the International Meteor Conference 2014.