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Victoria Corless

Meteorites and asteroids tracked back to their place of origin in the solar system

An illustration shows a field of tiny space rocks with Earth in the background.

Ten years ago, astronomers from various institutions, including NASA and SETI (Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence), set out to map the asteroid belt by tracking meteorites as they blazed through Earth’s atmosphere.

To do this, they built a network of all-sky cameras across the globe, which they named the Global Fireball Observatory.

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