The cameras Fripon research program will scan the sky to retrieve celestial rocks.
Get the meteorites’ fresh “falling in France and determine the origin of these shooting stars. These are the objectives of the program Fripon (Fireball Recovery Interplanetary Observation Network or in French cars Research Network and interplanetary matter), initiated by researchers from Paris Observatory, the National Museum of Natural History and the ‘Université Paris-Sud Orsay (Essonne). “The story begins in 2011, after two cars, observed over Brittany, had to be at the origin of meteorites that have been lost forever,” explained François Colas, CNRS researcher at the Paris Observatory . “We do not know exactly how much it falls in France. There should be from 5 to 25 per year. This means that we have no precise idea, “adds Brigitte Zanda, a research professor at the Natural History Museum.
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