Last weekend, an apricot-sized meteorite crashed to Earth in France and now space fans are being urged to find it.
The space rock is thought to weigh 150 gm and was captured passing through the atmosphere by cameras at an astronomy education facility in Mauraux falling at 10:43 pm Saturday near Aiguillon, about 100 kilometers from Bordeaux.
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The site is part of the Vigie-Ciel (Sky Watch) project which has around 100 cameras in the Fireball and Interplanning Recovery Network (FRIPON) and its main goal is 10 or so that meteorites that fall on France are discovered and collected every year.
“Meteorites are memories of the creation of the solar system, with the advantage that they will never be exposed to the elements,” said Mickael Wilmart of the astronomical education association A Ciel Ouvert (Open Sky). visual Mauraux.
“A new meteorite like this, which collapsed just a few days ago, has not been altered by the Earth’s environment so information is valuable to scientists,” he said.
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Authorities are on the lookout for a meteorite. However, people are being urged to do the same and posters have apparently been put up in areas where the rock is most likely to fall.
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But there is also a chance that they will never find it, believes Wilmart.
“It’s like finding a needle in a haystack. We’re really counting on people to look in their gardens, or on the side of the road, maybe they just fall on this badly requested rock. ” he said.