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fractallytetoday at 5:06 AM2 repliesview on HN

"Our cameras in Northford, Connecticut, and Douglassville, Pennsylvania, as well as a doorbell camera in Wayne, New Jersey, captured the meteor, and from that we measured its trajectory... The path traced back to low in the asteroid belt."

I don't doubt it, but that's an astounding trajectory estimation...


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defrosttoday at 5:14 AM

Desert Fireball Network, and less public precursor projects have been doing this for a while now:

* https://dfn.gfo.rocks/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Fireball_Network

* https://pawsey.org.au/researchers/desert-fireball-network-te...

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anovikovtoday at 6:00 AM

This is absolutely trivial as long as any fixed ground objects are visible in a camera and does not at all require some sub-pixel precision.