))
On the Trail of Fireballs: Tracking Meteors and Finding Meteorites
Manage episode 407763392 series 3561088
Content provided by SETI Institute. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by SETI Institute or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://player.fm/legal.
Only eight times in history have scientists found an asteroid, tracked its trajectory toward Earth, and caught the resulting fireball on cameras. The latest of these eight events happened in January 2024, with the discovery of asteroid 2024 BX1, a mere three hours before impacting the atmosphere over Europe. And of course, the SETI Institute's own Dr. Peter Jenniskens was hot on the trail, flying to Germany to help search for meteorite fragments. Within the week, several pieces were discovered, and early analysis found that they belong to a rare group of meteorites called "aubrites".
Join communications specialist Beth Johnson as she chats with Dr. Jenniskens about this search, the resulting find and its implications, and prior work hunting for meteorites around the world.
Press release: https://www.seti.org/press-release/asteroid-impacted-near-berlin-identified-rare-aubrite
54 episodes
Share
