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Innovation. A new type of hunting will launched next year
No way to hunt game here, nor eating the produce of his sport at the end, since it will be launched in 2017, is a large hunting meteorites.
in practice the public will be invited to hunt down these stones fell from the sky containing, by their composition, valuable information on the formation of the solar system and the earth.
is estimated that each falls in France 10-20 year meteorites but researchers did recover one every 10 years.
This great hunt launched by the Paris Observatory, the national museum of natural history but also the University of Paris and Aix-Marseille, should normally remain open for 10 years.
How to hunt a meteorite? If there are only 10 or 20 per year who fall, how do I get it?
The advantage compared to traditional hunting game is that here These are cameras that identify the “prey” and indicate where it is hiding.
total of a hundred cameras focused on the sky are installed throughout the country through the network “Trickster”, acronym in English, “Bolides Research Network and Interplanetary matter”.
These cameras will be coupled with software that will be able to detect abnormal events bright in the sky, to calculate the size, speed and trajectory of the meteorite enters the atmosphere. They will also be able to estimate its home base with an accuracy of about a few hundred meters.
It was at that point that voluntary hunters come into action, they will be invited raking an area of about 30 square kilometers to find the meteorite debris.
these lookouts of the sky as they are called will be trained to recognize these celestial minerals, their brown or black crust in particular resulting from a phenomenon merger.
researchers hope to recover one to two meteors per year, or 10 times more than at present.
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