Fireball Recovery and InterPlanetary Observation Network

The UK should receive several meteorites each year but none have been found since 1991. That all changed on 28th February this year when a bright fireball was seen for seven seconds from all across the UK and from parts…

Complete and update informations about the event can be found FRIPON/Vigie-Ciel web site for the fireball and for the research campaign. In the evening of Saturday, February 27, 2021, at 21:43 UTC, a luminous fireball  flew over the South-West of France,…

On the morning of 22 January 2021, the FRIPON cameras from Brussels (Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy – BIRA-IASB) and the Dutch cameras from Oostkapelle (Astronomy Project Oostkapelle) and Noordwijk (ESA-ESTEC) detected a fireball in the early dawn at…