If the risk of a near-miss becomes too high, it remains to be seen whether we will rely on the know-how of Bruce Willis’ bottom drillers or rather consider a…
Until the 2010s, there was a remote possibility that the Earth would be struck by Apophis, a NEO (Near-Earth Object) asteroid discovered in 2004 by planetologist David Tholen of the…
Fourth, morphometry based on the comparative analysis of terrestrial craters and those observed on the Moon or Mars for example. So an impact crater is theoretically 24 times the size…
Geologists from the University of New Brunswick in Canada tell us that at least six clues allow us to authenticate a meteorite impact, based both on macroscopic morphometric and stratigraphic…
It sometimes happens that witnesses observe a meteor in the sky and a few seconds later witness the fall of a meteorite a few tens or hundreds of kilometers away….
Rules of Observations
Like any subjective measurement and sometimes taking into account the large number of inexperienced observers who send observation reports to the centralizing body, it is necessary to draw a distribution…
Experience shows that the camera brings a significant help as we will discover. When selecting and reviewing observations, the following three points must be taken into account: Atmospheric circumstances: observations…