Western Australia's role in Global Meteor Network expands with 16 new cameras installed
ABCIn short: Sixteen cameras are being installed across regional WA that will be used to spot meteors flying above. Western Australia's role in an international network tracking meteors above Earth is set to advance with new cameras being installed across the state. Local science, global impact The Perth Observatory, with grant funding from the government's Inspiring WA program, is installing 16 cameras, which will send information to a collective called the Global Meteor Network. "Western Australia is one of the best places in the world, not only to observe fainter meteors that come from meteor showers, but also meteorites dropping fireballs," Denis Vida, one of the network's leaders, said. The information is also used by NASA to help protect satellites and astronauts in orbit and, in December last year, the network's cameras in Australia and New Zealand played a crucial role in documenting a new meteor shower created by a comet as it flew past Earth.
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