In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

These are places that I initially thought it'd be okay to go meteorite hunting, but it's most certainly not. Considering the Goddard v Winchell case, however, it makes sense. Those meteorites ...

An open-source global fireball detection network would be a shoe-in for next year’s Hackaday Prize if done right, and there are tons of cool stuff here: computer vision and meteorite hunting are ...

In 2021, cameras recorded the fall of the Winchcombe meteorite, allowing scientists to trace its cosmic origin. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle Companies. Major funding ...

In 1954 in Alabama, a meteorite the size of a grapefruit crashed through a roof, bounced off a radio and hit Anne Hodges as she sat in her living room. Luckily she got away with just bruising and ...

Video / David Greig The hunt is on in Hawke’s Bay for New Zealand’s 11th meteorite after a fireball was filmed streaking across the night sky. And one meteorite-hunter believes someone’s ...

As part of this module, students were asked to study three mathematical modelling problems on meteorite hunting in the Antarctic, needle-free immunisation, and the Doppler effect in moving vehicles.