fireball
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- In meteor and meteoroid: Measurement of meteoroid orbits
…photographing very bright meteors, or fireballs. These networks were designed to provide all-sky coverage of meteors over about a million square kilometres of Earth’s surface. Three such networks were developed—the Prairie Network in the central United States, the MORP (Meteorite Observation and Recovery Project) network in the Prairie Provinces of…
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