We aim to recover freshly-fallen meteorites in New Zealand. We are a collaboration between NZ’s meteor camera networks and scientists at NZ's universities.
Joined February 2022
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25 Aug 2022
"Wow! I've seen a fireball above NZ. Who should I tell?"
Report it at fireballs.nz. We collate views, calculate it's trajectory and assess whether there may be any #nzmeteorites.
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21 Mar 2024
Close-up views of New Zealand's latest #meteorite - found by a search party today after falling last Wednesday 13th.
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21 Mar 2024
We're so happy to have found this rock - NZ's tenth #meteorite and our first camera-assisted find stuff.co.nz/nz-news/35022074…
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21 Mar 2024
Finding a #meteorite in #LOTR country - we were looking for one precious thing in the landscape where the #LOTR films were made two decades ago: rnz.co.nz/news/national/5123…
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21 Mar 2024
We found a #meteorite! Read about it here (parental advisory on antipodean vernacular): rnz.co.nz/news/national/5123…
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Fireballs Aotearoa retweeted
12 Dec 2023
The @FireballsNZ and #globalmeteornetwork cameras have detected meteors from a new #meteor shower produced by #comet 46P/Wirtanen! Although it had low activity (ZHR <= 5), it occurred exactly where and when it was predicted.
ALT New shower = oWir2023
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21 Nov 2023
Peter McKellar caught this "Earthgrazer" #meteor off the coast near Mt Maunganui at 2:10 am last night. 100km up and moving at 70km/sec, it would have been a real sight from the beach.
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21 Nov 2023
If you want to catch #meteors like this, please join Fireballs Aotearoa by searching for our website and clicking on "get a camera".
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21 Nov 2023
"Earthgrazers" are meteors that almost miss the Earth - they hit the top of the atmosphere, get thoroughly toasted then continue back out into space. No #meteorites from this one, it's back out there in an altered orbit.
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Fireballs Aotearoa retweeted
25 Oct 2023
An amazing display of sprites captured last night over the #Fiordland National Park in #NewZealand.
@FireballsNZ #globalmeteornetwork #redsprites #tle #lightning #timelapse
Credit: Jim Cheetham
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Fireballs Aotearoa retweeted
30 Jul 2023
Meteor shower season is here! The next few weeks are the best time of year to be observing #meteors (unless you like the cold during the Geminids).
Here is a night of detections from a #globalmeteornetwork camera in #NewZealand. Via @FireballsNZ Credit: Craig Young
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25 Jul 2023
🔥#Otago/#Southland Fireball Update🔥
1/4 Data for the #fireball at 20:39 24-07-23 is in:
The ☄small ~100gm rock ☄was first detected at 55km above Earth's surface travelling at 20km/s! It was captured through to 31km at 5km/s.
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25 Jul 2023
3/4 The fireball's trajectory indicates it originated from the asteroid belt, beyond the orbit of Mars, and was likely a remnant of the early solar system.
Image - Green (orbital trajectory), red (Mars), brown (Jupiter).
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25 Jul 2023
4/4 Calculations by Jesse Stayte and James Scott.
Report🔥 fireballs🔥 here: fireballs.nz
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24 Jul 2023
🔥Otago/Southland Fireball🔥
A large #meteor was captured on our camera network at 8:40pm last night over the #Otago/#Southland region☄We're assessing our data to determine if this may have dropped a #meteorite!
Did you see it? Report it here: fireballs.nz
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28 Jun 2023
🔥MANAWATŪ EVENT🔥
1/2 We're getting reports of a bright object shooting over the Manawatū region just before 0700 this morning🔥☄
Did you see the event? Do you have security camera footage?
🔥Report it here: fireballs.nz/report/ 🔥
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28 Jun 2023
2/2 We're assessing our data to determine if this was a meteor and whether it may have dropped some material in the region!! 🔥
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25 Jun 2023
Remembering the great work that @Metservice did on the Wellington daylight #Fireball a year ago. Weather radar often picks up meteorite-generated turbulence and fragments. This sort of analysis should help us find NZ's next #meteorite.
7 Jul 2022
An interesting signature from the Wellington Radar, at 1:52pm.
This shows a cross-section of the atmosphere, with what may be the smoke trail of the meteor ☄ that passed over the lower North Island.
It's about the right place and time, and it's not meteorological.
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25 Jun 2023
Weather radar sees #meteorites! This #fireball was seen from across the North Island in 2011 and created a debris cloud (bottom left) that persisted for an hour. Analysis by Marc Fries @WarrantyViolatr, data kindly provided by @MetService
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