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News_2018-11-09_FRIPON_Denekamp

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

Asteroid Day 2018

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

News_2018-02-24_FRIPON

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

News_2016-09-22

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

Perseids 2016

12 August 2016 2016 Aug 12 - Our CILBO stations successfully observed the Perseids - each of our LIC cameras recorded around 200 Perseids in addition to about 100 other meteors. In several cases meteors appeared almost simultaneously - unfortunately our detection software only stores the data of one meteor in this case... read more