image: This is a fireball over the Nullarbor Desert, Australia. A rotating shutter above the film plate makes the fireballs appear "chopped," and allows the researchers to constrain their velocity. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Sept. 18 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. P.A. Bland at Imperial College London in London, UK, and colleagues, was titled, "An Anomalous Basaltic Meteorite from the Innermost Belt." view more
Credit: [Image courtesy of The Desert Fireball Network, funding from STFC and the EU]