Most mornings, retired scientist Derek Poulton gets up and checks a special camera at his home in Victoria. On November 29, he was excited to see a bright meteor. Now he and 15 other scientists are searching for meteorites on the ground, and they need help.
A Victorian man has captured home footage of a meteor fireball
Mr Poulton is part of the Global Meteor Network, a worldwide citizen science project that aims to have cameras like his set up all over the world to monitor the movement of meteors. Last week, he put up another one at his brother-in-law's house in Murchison, a small town on the Goulburn River that was put on the map in 1969 when a meteorite weighing more than 100 kilograms fell there."They're still learning from and making new discoveries from that meteorite more than 50 years on, so they're very precious to science.
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